Love Quotes

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th'offender, yet detest th'offence?

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.

When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

P. G. Wodehouse

The gift from those I loved so tenderly added more and more impulse to my deeply seated love of the beautiful and from the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to be as a living thing, with voice and memory and memory and creative vigour.

Julia Margaret Cameron

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Oh how absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself! Everybody should try it.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Ellsworth Huntington

Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Anthony Trollope

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.

George Whitefield

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Theodore Dreiser

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Joseph de Maistre

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Mary Baker Eddy

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

Yet this inconstancy is such
As you too shall adore;
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.

Richard Lovelace

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.