Love Quotes


1- Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. -Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


2- I don't think you can keep someone you truly love at arm`s length on purpose, they`ll always end up in your arms. -Holly Nichole Miller


3- The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. -Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


4- Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. -Emily Brontë


5- Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. -Zora Neale Hurston


6- You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -Dr. Seuss


7- Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. -Robert Frost


8- The love game is never called off on account of darkness. -Tom Masson


9- No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. -Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


10- Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. -Robert Brault


11- You don't have to go looking for love when it`s where you come from. -Werner Erhard


12- He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. -Leo Tolstoy


13- Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. -William Shakespeare, `Sonnet CXVI


14- Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. -Hannah More (Thanks, Steven)


15- Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. -Ursula K. Le Guin


16- Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love`s tragedies. -Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


17- Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. -Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer


18- Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. -Lord Byron


19- Love is no respecter of age or practicality
Neither morality: unabashed
She enters where she will
Unheeding that her immortal fires
Burn up human hearts...
-Phillip Pulfrey, from Beyond Me.


20- Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

21- Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. -Henry Van Dyke

22- The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. -Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self

23- We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. -Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

24- My debt to you, Beloved,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
-Jessie B. Rittenhouse

25- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. -François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

26- The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. -Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

27- The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. -George Moore

28- Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. -Laurence Marks, M*A*S*H, `Love Story,` original air date 7 January 1973, spoken by the character Hawkeye

29- Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -Michael Leunig

30- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595

31- Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. -Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic`s Notebook, 1966

32- For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. -Rosemonde Gerard

33- Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you? -Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

34- Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

35- Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. -W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949

36- You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won`t laugh if you trip. -Jonathan Carroll, `Outside the Dog Museum`

37- Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? -Richard Bach

38- Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. -Lao Tzu

39- As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. -William Shakespeare

40- All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. -Julie Andrews

41- Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. -C. S. Lewis

42- Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld

43- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. -Honore de Balzac

44- A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. -George Jean Nathan

45- A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. -Ingrid Bergman

46- Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ~George Bernard Shaw

47- Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic`s Notebook, 1960

48- Love is missing someone whenever you`re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you`re close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen

49- Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men`s behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. ~Francesca M. Cancian

50- In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~Terri Guillemets