All Quotes and Proverbs

"Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace."

Karl Kraus

Art and Culture

Beauty and Ugliness

Love

"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."

Joseph Joubert

Courage and Fear

Family and Loneliness

Love

"Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."

Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

Love

Memory

"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Joyce Brothers

Love

"Love conquers everything, let us, too, yield to love."

Virgil "Eclogues"

Love

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

James Baldwin

Love

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction."

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

Love

"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

Franklin P. Jones

Life and Death

Love

"Love gives beauty to everything it touches."

Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty and Ugliness

Love

"Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest."

Eleanor Farjeon

Love

"Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Lev Tolstoy "War and Peace"

Life and Death

Love

"Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself."

St. Thomas Aquinas "Summa Theologiae"

Love

"Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life."

Truman Capote

Love

Nature and Animals

"Love is a great beautifier."

Louisa May Alcott

Beauty and Ugliness

Love

"Love is a smoke raised with the cloud of Sighs, a fire in a loving eye. When unhappy - sea lovers tears. What is more?'s Prudent madness. Bile stifling and sweet delicacy."

William Shakespeare

Love

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

Peter Ustinov

Forgiveness

Love

"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."

Lynda Barry

Love

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

Marriage

"Love is being stupid together."

Paul Ambroise Valéry

Love

Wisdom and Stupidity

"Love is blind. Marriage is the eye-opener."

Pauline Thomason

Love

Marriage

"Love is complete and utter surrender."

Henry Miller

Love

"Love is energy of life."

Robert Browning

Life and Death

Love

"Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it."

Jerome K. Jerome

Love

"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."

Ellen Key "The Morality of Woman"

Love

Marriage

"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de

Love

"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market."

Erich Fromm "The Sane Society"

Love

"Love is our response to our highest values."

Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged"

Love

"Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."

Helen Hayes

Love

"Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."

Woody Allen

Love

Manners and Ethics

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Love

"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

Robert A. Heinlein "Stranger in a Strange Land"

Happiness

Love

"Love is the crocodile on the river of desire."

Bhartihari

Dreams and Desires

Love

"Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."

John Barrymore

Beauty and Ugliness

Love

Woman and Man

"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another."

Henry Louis Mencken

Love

Woman and Man

"Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real."

Iris Murdoch

Love

Reality and Imagination

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."

Martin Luther King

Friendship and Hostility

Love

"Love is the reason you were born."

Dorothy Fields

Love

"Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person."

James Thurber

Love

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

Henry Louis Mencken

Intellect, Judgement

Love

Reality and Imagination

"Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation."

Rabindranath Tagore

Love

"Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star."

E. E. Cummings

Love

"Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's."

Stael-Holstein-Anne-Louise-Germaine-de

Love

Woman and Man

"Love is when you don't want to go to sleep because reality is better than a dream."

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Dreams and Desires

Love

Reality and Imagination

"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."

Josh Billings

Envy

Love

"Love makes time pass. Time makes love pass."

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Love

Time and Passing

"Love makes us poets and the approach of death makes us philosophers."

George Santayana

Life and Death

Love

"Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us."

Guy de Maupassant

Love

"Love must be as much a light as a flame."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Love