- To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
- The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
- There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Thomas Fuller
- Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
- To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
Francois Rabelais
- Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
- Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
Henry Van Dyke
- The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell
- No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
Thomas Moore
- We all need each other.
Leo Buscaglia
- Everything is clearer when you’re in love.
John Lennon
- The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
- Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
- There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Igor Stravinsky
- The crime of loving is forgetting.
Maurice Chevalier
- The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.
Plato
- I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
George Eliot
- There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
Bertrand Russell
- Absence – that common cure of love.
Lord Byron
- All love is lost but upon God alone.
William Dunbar
- I was adored once too.
William Shakespeare
- To love is to act.
Victor Hugo
- The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anais Nin
- Love is always being given where it is not required.
E. M. Forster
- Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
- Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.
Euripides
- At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Who loves, raves.
Lord Byron
- Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Khalil Gibran
- As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare
- If you’ve got love you’ve got life, if you can love you can live.
Kim Casali
- At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
Jean de la Bruyere
- People happy in love have an air of intensity.
Stendhal
- To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton
- Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
George Jean Nathan
- The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
- 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
- The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
Max Muller
- Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette
- When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
- When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
- Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.
Sai Baba