Love Quotes - Page 38

• In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Passion, Animal

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• If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Thursday, Wednesday, Ifs

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.30, eBookIt.com

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• I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

  William Hazlitt

  Gay, Thinking, Sight

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.115

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• Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Queens, Kings, Flower

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.525, Library of Alexandria

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• Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

  Philip James Bailey

  Thinking, Might, Intensity

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.250

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• Love is a flame to set the will on fire

  John Masefield

  Love Is, Fire, Flames

  John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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• Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Would Be, Ships, Poor

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, James P. Carley (1990). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, p.353, Boydell & Brewer

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• Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

  Langston Hughes

  Eye, Apples, Looks

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• Love is the wild card of existence.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love Is, Cards, Existence

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Animal Magnetism: My Life with Creatures Great and Small”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Wings, Arlington, Fly Away

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1927). “Merlin”

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• I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Inspiring, Heart, Space

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• Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "The Four Agreements". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Rain, Men, Meat

  "Love Is Not All" l. 1 (1931)

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• Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.

  e. e. cummings

  Sweet, Spring, Viva

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• He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.

  Jenny Han

  Life, Stars, Regret

  Jenny Han (2011). “We'll Always Have Summer”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Tragedy, Germany, Opera

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• If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
  [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
  (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

  Ovid

  Yield, Age, Tutus

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• Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Book, School

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 156

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• Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

  Timothy Keller

  Giving, Feelings, Firsts

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• My main interest is in the promotion of human values. From birth we have a sense of affection and some sense of concern for others. We need to nurture it. Scientists have found that to ensure even physical health peace of mind is essential. People often think that love and compassion are only matters of religious concern, but in fact such values are necessary in all human relations

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Buddhist, Kindness

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• There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Christian, Father

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.8, Penguin

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

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Pain, Treasure

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison”, p.283

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• Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

  James M. Barrie

  Happiness, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

  Alfred Douglas

  Gay, Names, Lgbt

  Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (1990). “"Two Loves" & Other Poems: A Selection”

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• We love because it's the only true adventure.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Life, Heartbreak, Adventure

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