love quotes

“He would make a lovely corpse.”

— Charles Dickens

“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”

— Pablo Picasso

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”

— Jane Austen

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

— Jane Austen

“I love those who do not know how to live for today.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

— Confucius

“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”

— Confucius

“All is fair in love and songwriting.”

— Norah Jones

“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”

— Dalai Lama

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”

— Andre Gide

“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.”

— Andre Gide

“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”

— Amelia Earhart

“Do all things with love.”

— Og Mandino

“Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.”

— Og Mandino

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

— Og Mandino

“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.”

— Og Mandino

“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.”

— Arthur Hailey

“Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.”

— John Barrymore

“When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.”

— John Barrymore

“I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.”

— Billy Idol

“I rocked the cradle of love.”

— Billy Idol

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”

— Buddha

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

— Buddha