Quotes about love page 5
“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
frequently attributed to Lennon, but entirely unsourced
Disputed
“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.”
Ovid (-43–17 BC) Roman poet
“Love means never having to say you're sorry.”
Erich Segal book Love Story
Source: Love Story (also used in the film)
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Source: Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Variant: and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
“You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Drum Major Instinct (1968)
Context: And so Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness. And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, (Everybody) because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.
“Loving means sharing what you have however big or small it may be!”
Geronimo Stilton (1958) character
Source: The Haunted Castle
“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Glass
Jace to Clary, pg. 331
Variant: There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Glass (2009)
“If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.”
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”
Harriet Van Horne (1920–1998) American journalist
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil
Variant: One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa
“When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”
Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care
Variant: When you love someone you let them take care of you.
Source: Handle with Care
“And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads
Stanza 2.
Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
Context: These beauteous forms,
Through a long absence, have not been to me
As is a landscape to a blind man's eye:
But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;
And passing even into my purer mind,
With tranquil restoration:—feelings too
Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps,
As have no slight or trivial influence
On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust,
To them I may have owed another gift,
Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world
Is lighten'd:—that serene and blessed mood,
In which the affections gently lead us on,—
Until, the breath of this corporeal frame
And even the motion of our human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
“My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.”
Muhammad Ali book The Soul of a Butterfly
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
The Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/virginia-woolf/ traces the origin of such statements to The Intimate Notebooks of George Jean Nathan (1932), where the diarist states:<br>We were sitting one morning two Summers ago, Ferenc Molnár, Dr. Rudolf Kommer and I, in the little garden of a coffee-house in the Austrian Tyrol. “Your writing?” we asked him. “How do you regard it?” Languidly he readjusted the inevitable monocle to his eye. “Like a whore,” he blandly ventured. “First, I did it for my own pleasure. Then I did it for the pleasure of my friends. And now — I do it for money.” <br class="br">Misattributed
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Source: Les Misérables
“Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: We'll Always Have Summer
“Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own”
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer
Variant: You want my opinion? We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
Source: True Love (1998)
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"Everybody Knows"
I'm Your Man (1988)
Source: The Leonard Cohen Collection
“The salvation of man is through love and in love.”
Viktor E. Frankl book Man's Search for Meaning
Source: Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984)
Context: A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth — that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. … For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words, "The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory."
Edna St. Vincent Millay book A Few Figs from Thistles
Misattributed
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay, in "First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920); said to be a motto Roald Dahl lived by.
“I could never throw Love out of the window.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
“I am hopelessly in love with a memory.
An echo from another time, another place.”
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Source: Life Is Worth Living
“A heavy burden lifted from my soul,
I heard that love was out of my control.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
“Only love can keep anyone alive…”
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.”
Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008) fashion designer
“Don't forget love;
it will bring all the madness you need
to unfurl yourself across the universe.”
Meera Bai Hindu mystic poet
Mīrābāī, in ” Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West”, p. 251
“I wanted my heart to bloom
and shelter a shadow of love”
Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
<span class="plainlinks"> The Tajmahal and my Love http://www.best-poems.net/love_poems/the_taj_mahal_amp_my_love.html/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry
Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker
Alex Jones: The "Justin Biebler" Rant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDMB0KyhPN8, 21 February 2011. <br class="br">2011
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
Launch.com, November 2, 2000<!-- site no longer exists -->
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
September 30, 1974. South Bend, IN. Notre Dame Ath Center. <br class="br">Source: http://www.elvisconcerts.com/real/oct74-01.htm <br class="br">Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEZpSFnDxRg
“May everyone live,
And may everyone die.
Hello, my love,
And my love, Goodbye.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"Here It Is"
Ten New Songs (2001)
Richard I of England (1157–1199) English king
Richard on King Philip II of France's early departure from the Third Crusade; God's War - Tyerman (from primary source)
Rich Mullins (1955–1997) American christian musician
Louisville, Kentucky http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/louisville-kentucky-jun2594.html (June 25, 1994) <br class="br">In Concert
Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) American actor and film producer
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm