Love Quotes

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. (James Baldwin, 1924-1987)

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. (James Baldwin, 1924-1987)

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. (Smiley Blanton, 1882-1966)

I have never loved anyone for love's sake, exept, perhaps, Josephine – a little. (Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821)

Where there is great love, there are always wishes. (Willa Cather, 1873-1947)

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. (Cervantes, 1547-1616)

When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows. (John Clark, 1609-1676)

We are all born for love … It is the principle of existence and its only end. (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881)

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. (Henry Drummond, 1851-1897)

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. (Victor Hugo, 1802-1885)

Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. (William Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965)

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. (Henry L. Mencken, 1880-1956)

Love is based on a view of women that is impossible to those who have had any experience with them. (Henry L. Mencken, 1880-1956)

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. (Plato, 428-347 bc)

Take love away from life and you take away its pleasures. (Jean-Baptiste Molière, 1622-1673)

The pleasure of love is in loving; and we are much happier in the passion we feel than in that which we inspire. (François de la Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. (Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970)

Love means never having to say you're sorry. (Erich Segal, 1937)

To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live. (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910)

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for. (Elijah Wood, 1981)

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