English quotes love

“The first true love is always the last one.”

Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer

Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“One love, one heart, one destiny.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51

“Love lives forever.”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

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This Is It

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well

Variant: Love all, trust a few.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well

“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

“I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Variant: I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

Hermann Hesse book Narcissus and Goldmund

Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

'Where Do We Go From Here?" as published in Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62; many statements in this book, or slight variants of them, were also part of his address Where Do We Go From Here?" which has a section below. A common variant appearing at least as early as 1968 has "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence..." An early version of the speech as published in A Martin Luther King Treasury (1964), p. 173, has : "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate..."
1960s
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Context: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. … Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

“I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody?”

Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer

As quoted in "I am the Champion" by Nick Ferrari in The Sun (19 July 1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_07-19-1985_-_The_Sun.
Context: I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain.
In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

“I can fight only for something that I love. I can love only what I respect. And in order to respect a thing I must at least have some knowledge of it.”

Adolf Hitler book Mein Kampf

Variant: And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
Source: Mein Kampf

“There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too sad.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter

“There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

“We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter

“Overcome the devils with a thing called love.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”

Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) Austrian esotericist

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter

“Love should not be polluted with friendship.”

Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist

Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Source: Heliogabalus

“We cannot underestimate the power of love in our lives. Only those who have been there will truly understand your feelings.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

James Baldwin book Nobody Knows My Name

"In Search of a Majority: An Address" (Feb 1960); reprinted in Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_My_Name (1961)

“Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”

Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.
"Tonight I Can Write" (Puedo Escribir), XX, p. 51.
Variant: Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)

“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Variant: How do you spell love?
You don't spell it, you feel it.

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Variant: You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

“Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too”

Ernest Hemingway book Men Without Women

Disputed
Source: Claimed to be from Men Without Women, but it does not appear in that work. May have originated in a 2011 blogpost by Marc Chernoff entitled 30 things to stop doing to yourself http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/30-things-to-stop-doing-to-yourself/.

“To love is to recognize yourself in another.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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