Quotes About Love

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed neither can be perfect without the other.

This love of beauty is Taste. Others have the same love in such excess, that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

All mankind love a lover.

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

To describe adequately is the high power & one of the highest enjoyments of man. She was beautiful and he fell in love with her. The thing has happened to millions, yet how few can tell the story. Try some of them, set them at the painting; each knows it all & can communicate nothing. Then comes Shakspeare [sic], & tells it point for point as it befel [sic], or better; and now we have two things, love & literature.

The love that you withhold is the pain you carry.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Love is as much its demand as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other.