Love Quotes

Love Quotes

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

~Mother Teresa

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

~Albert Einstein

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.

~Charles Morgan

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.

~Jonathan Carroll, “Outside the Dog Museum”

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

~Eric Fromm

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

~Kahlil Gibran

Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you’ll take him anyway.

~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook, 1949

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

When love is not madness, it is not love.

~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.

~Malagasy Proverb

Do I love you because you’re beautiful,Or are you beautiful because I love you?

~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

For you see, each day I love you moreToday more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

~Rosemonde Gerard

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

~Mark Overby

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

~Author Unknown

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.

~Author Unknown

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.

~Proverb

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

~Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

~Peter Ustinov

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, 1595

The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.

~Albert Ellis

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524

Who, being loved, is poor?

~Oscar Wilde

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

~Robert Brault

Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,swooping birds and sunshine, rain -and most importantly, seeds.

~Grey Livingston

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

~Robert Heinlein

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

~George Moore

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

~Rose Franken

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

~Ben Hecht