Quotes About Love

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage; and they were always mortal enemies

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself

If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devoted flame, thou say'st I speak too boldly

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Love and friendship exclude each other

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps who went about continually doing good.

You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

All love is unrequited. All of it.

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

In high school you can think you're in love; but I believe you have to know yourself completely before you can truly fall in love and be loved back by someone else.

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing el