6,614 quotes
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson
Author · English · 1709 – 1784
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
David Herbert Lawrence
Writer · English · 1885 – 1930
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
Philosopher · American · 1863 – 1952
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
Critic · English · 1778 – 1830
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
Politician · American · 1706 – 1790
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot
Author · British · 1819 – 1880
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert Camus
Philosopher · French · 1913 – 1960
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mohandas Gandhi
Leader · Indian · 1869 – 1948
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Thomas Jefferson
President · American · 1743 – 1826
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher · German · 1844 – 1900
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
Novelist · Polish · 1857 – 1924
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Jonathan Swift
Writer · Irish · 1667 – 1745
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde
Dramatist · Irish · 1854 – 1900
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce
Journalist · American · b. 1842
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron
Poet · British · 1788 – 1824
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Plato
Philosopher · Greek
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
Clergyman · American · 1813 – 1887
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone Weil
Philosopher · French · 1909 – 1943
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leader · American · 1929 – 1968
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer · French · 1613 – 1680
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
Victor Hugo
Author · French · 1802 – 1885
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken
Writer · American · 1880 – 1956
In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
Helen Rowland
Writer · American
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
Henry David Thoreau
Author · American · 1817 – 1862
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu
Philosopher
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
Saint · 354 – 430
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Poet · Roman
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet · German · 1749 – 1832
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Lawyer · American · 1833 – 1899
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
Jean de la Bruyere
Philosopher · French
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare
Dramatist · English · 1564 – 1616
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Sigmund Freud
Psychologist · Austrian · 1856 – 1939
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
Dramatist · Russian · 1860 – 1904
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. Forster
Novelist · English · 1879 – 1970
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
Author · American · 1880 – 1968
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Woodrow Wilson
President · American · 1856 – 1924
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth
Poet · English · 1770 – 1850
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
William Penn
Leader · English · 1644 – 1718
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.