Top 100 Love Quotes

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Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

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Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

3

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

4

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

5

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

6

Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.

7

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

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The people who will succeed fifteen years from now, the countries which will succeed, are those which are most based on a sustainable vision of the world. That is what we should be training people to do

9

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

10

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

11

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

12

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this holy Sacrament. Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me.

14

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

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Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

17

Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.

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Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

19

No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's ...20

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.21

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

22

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

23

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

24

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

25

Love is who we are without our stories.

26

Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end.

27

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

28

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

29

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

30

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

31

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

32

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

33

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

34

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

35

And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.

36

My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.

37

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

38

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

39

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

40

Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.

41

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

42

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

43

Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.

44

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

45

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

46

Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.

47

I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the world's longest queue. Just for the pleasure of a moment with you.

48

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

49

I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.

50

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

51

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

52

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

53

Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body.

54

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

55

He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.

56

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

57

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

58

Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.

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PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

60

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

61

Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation.... The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

63

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

64

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

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I've told Billy [Bob Thornton] if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

66

She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.

67

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

68

The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

69

Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If a person were to throw a bullet with his hands, he would hardly make a dent in anything; but if the person takes the same bullet and ignites some gunpowder behind it, it can kill. It is much the same with the word of God. If it is spoken by someone who is filled with the fire of charity- the fire of love of God and neighbor- it will work wonders.

70

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

71

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

72

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

73

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

74

I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that, love, beauty, everything else goes out the window. All they have left is cold disdain; that's what marriages live on nowadays. Sometimes I see women who ought to be happy, with whom I could have found companionship, already swallowed up by brutes with as much feeling as an old log.

75

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

76

Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

77

Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.

78

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

79

I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?

80

If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.

81

A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

82

Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.

83

A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.

84

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

85

Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give love back - it's a romantic situation.

86

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

87

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

88

These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.

89

Don't worry about where you are or what you have or even what you think you want. Take one step at a time and worry only about only this - who you are - who you really are. Find what you love, love what makes you happy - try giving instead of getting, try caring instead of hating. Remove the mindless distractions from your life and focus on the things and people that matter the most to you. Follow your heart to discover what makes you happy, never let go of it, never devalue anything that is beautiful, and build a life that lets you be yourself.

90

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

91

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

92

Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.

93

Women like me. Women love me, so if I really wanted to involve the women, I don't have to assault the women.

94

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

95

It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk, and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you'll ever meet in your life.

96

Love is like air we can't see it but feel it.

97

Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.

98

I just loved him and he loved me... He was a most humble man, the most decent man I've ever met in my life and he always looked for the best in people to find positives and he said something to me that always remained with me. He said if you believe in the fatherhood of God you must necessarily believe in the brotherhood of man, it follows necessarily and even though I left the church and was not religious, that truth remained with me.

99

The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.

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Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day's work and always brings a smile to your face.

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