“The first true love is always the last one.”
Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
English quotes love
Best english quotes love
“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
“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
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Last title displayed on the film.
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)
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. <br class="br">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.<br>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.
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
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
“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
“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
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)
“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.
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.
“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
Ernest Hemingway book Men Without Women
Disputed <br class="br">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/.
