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Quotes About Love

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.
~ Bible
If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
~ William Shakespeare
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.
~ John Donne
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
~ Unknown
No matter how hard it is, true love is also the result of an accident in the dream of our life, and that accident is an event that happens in our soul.
~ Sorin Cerin
A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love.
~ Helen Thomson
Love is not something you did it is something you do
~ Unknown
The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives
~ Unknown
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
~ John Milton
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
~ H L Mencken
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
~ Unknown
To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.
~ Marguerite Duras
The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's.
~ Polish Proverb
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
~ Lao-Tzu
We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
~ Adrienne Rich
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our ''natural'' attitude toward the ''other'' is one of either indifference or hostility.
~ Unknown
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.
~ Unknown
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.
~ Bible
Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.
~ Unknown
The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
~ Jewish proverb
Even though I have not loved from the beginning this wonderful soul, even though I have long disappointed and tortured it with my apparent instability, I have come to understand that when you do not seek you will find and when you do not love from the beginning you will live the greatest love, that will become the love of your life.
~ Sorin Cerin