Love Quotes

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

"Where there is love there is life."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."

Erich Fromm

"We love people not so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them."

Leo Tolstoy

"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life."

Victor Hugo

"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."

Victor Hugo

"Love is the reduction of the universe to a single being, and the expansion of a single being even to God."

Victor Hugo

"He's more myself than I am."

Emily Bronte

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."

Jane Austen

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."

Jane Austen

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

Jane Austen

"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"She walks in beauty, like the night."

Lord Byron

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."

John Keats

"Nothing in the world is single; all things by a law divine in one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?"

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

W. B. Yeats

"But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, and loved the sorrows of your changing face."

W. B. Yeats

"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."

Pablo Neruda

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."

Pablo Neruda

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow."

Rainer Maria Rilke