Love Quotes

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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Love is so short and forgetting is so long.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Theodor W. Adorno

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success … Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more.

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

Robert A. Heinlein

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Giuseppe Mazzini

A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

Isabelle Eberhardt

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder. Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working ; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Francis de Sales