1,113 Quotes Regarding Love


The one who loves least controls the relationship.
Anon.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
Anon.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne

Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.
John Donne

O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.
John Donne

Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

All mankind loves a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
Louise Erdrich

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
Euripides

He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Euripides

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Jean Pierre Claris Florian

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
French proverb

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love
Erich Fromm

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's ownself.
Erich Fromm

Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Thomas Fuller

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Goncourt

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
George Gordon

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden