6,614 quotes
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William Blake
Poet · English · 1757 – 1827
Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil Gibran
Poet · 1883 – 1931
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Ovid
Poet
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen
Writer · British · 1775 – 1817
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
Graham Greene
Playwright · British · 1904 – 1991
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.
Trey Parker
Artist · American · b. 1969
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
Dramatist · Irish · 1856 – 1950
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis
Writer · American
We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Writer · American · b. 1941
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone
Poet · English · 1714 – 1763
If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
Calvin Klein
Designer · American · b. 1942
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Elbert Hubbard
Writer · American · 1859 – 1915
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
E. M. Forster
Novelist · English · 1879 – 1970
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William Hazlitt
Critic · English · 1778 – 1830
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Novelist · French · 1900 – 1944
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leader · French · 1769 – 1821
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
Thomas Merton
Author · American · 1915 – 1968
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Thornton Wilder
Novelist · American · 1897 – 1975
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
Edmund Waller
Poet · English · 1606 – 1687
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
Marshall McLuhan
Sociologist · Canadian · 1911 – 1980
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
Marcel Proust
Author · French · 1871 – 1922
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle
Leader · 1890 – 1970
Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
Jeanette Winterson
Novelist · British · b. 1959
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Hesiod
Poet · Greek
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler
Poet · British · 1835 – 1902
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
Richard Bach
Novelist · American · b. 1936
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Thomas Mann
Writer · German · 1875 – 1955
What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
David Hume
Philosopher · Scottish · 1711 – 1776
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
John Dryden
Poet · English · 1631 – 1700
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
Mason Cooley
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer · English · 1874 – 1936
I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.
David Zucker
Director · American · b. 1947
You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
John Donne
Poet · British · d. 1631
Hatred observes with more care than love does.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
C. S. Lewis
Author · British · 1898 – 1963
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
Christopher Lasch
Historian · American · 1932 – 1994
If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
Marianne Williamson
Author · American · b. 1952
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
Billy Graham
Clergyman · American · b. 1918
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais Nin
Author · American · 1903 – 1977
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
Orison Swett Marden
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve
Poet · English · 1670 – 1729
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Iris Murdoch
Author · Irish · 1919 – 1999