Famous Love Quotes - Page 5

• Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

  Confucius

  Love, Heart, Demand

  8 Copy quote

• Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.

  Sappho

  Eye, Grace, Faces

  Sappho (2006). “Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho”, Shambhala Publications

  78 Copy quote

  Show source

• Blushing is the color of virtue.

  Diogenes

  Love, Life, Dream

  92 Copy quote

• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Wedding

  115 Copy quote

• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

  103 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Life, Uplifting

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

  140 Copy quote

  Show source

• "Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Delirium Tremens, Common

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Change

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

  166 Copy quote

  Show source

• This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Sight, Feelings

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.186, Vintage

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

  127 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

  Martin Heidegger

  Romantic, Best Love, Horse

  66 Copy quote

• Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  135 Copy quote

• Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Friendship, Heartbreak

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.351

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who so loves believes the impossible.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Faith, Believe

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh. Author's ed”, p.195

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

  Bob Dylan

  Love, Life, Relationship

  TV Series "American Masters" ("No Direction Home: Bob Dylan", 2005), www.imdb.com. (1985– ).

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

  33 Copy quote

• A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

  Stephen King

  Love, Inspirational Love, Life And Love

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

  180 Copy quote

  Show source

• Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.137, University of Illinois Press

  206 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Relationship, Money, Hippie

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• When love is not madness, it is not love.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  64 Copy quote

• A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Heart

  1597-8 Mistress Quickly.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 3, sc.4, l.101-2.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life isn't long enough for love and art.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Art, Long

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “The Moon and Sixpence (月亮與六便士)”, p.336, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Romantic, Best Love, Horse

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.243, Da Capo Press

  40 Copy quote

  Show source