Love Quotes
A small collection of quotes about love
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
C. S. Lewis
“Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.”
Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974
“Do you have to have a reason for loving?”
Brigitte Bardot
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.”
Mark Overby
“Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.”
Proverb
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
Peter Ustinov
“Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.”
Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
“'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.”
John Sheffield
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595
“Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.”
Michael Leunig
“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert Heinlein
“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.”
Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self
“We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.”
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
~Eric Fromm