Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

Gao Xingjian

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

To love someone is to identify with them.

Aristotle

Love has more depth as you get older.

Kirk Douglas

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Leo F. Buscaglia

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Andre Maurois

Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.

Gael Greene

A woman who is loved always has success.

Vicki Baum

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Charles Lindbergh

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

Mark Van Doren

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

I really would have liked to love, but I didn't trust myself to allow it.

Karl Valentin

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Washington Irving

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

It's a heartacheNothing but a heartacheHits you when it's too lateHits you when you're down.

Bonnie Tyler

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

Nicholas Chamfort

True friendship and love are the only things that last forever, even after the Energizer Bunny stops going.

Amy Davis

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Thomas Carlyle

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is blind - but not the neighbors.

Mexican Proverb

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Philip James Bailey

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

John Keats

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.

Simone Signoret

For to do things with care is the closest thing to love that I know the cape of grace falling softly about the shoulders as we focus on the task at hand whether it be to listen or to leave or to learn.

Jane Siberry

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

Francoise Sagan

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

"I'm weaker than you know."

John Mayer

We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

Robertson Davies

How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?

Orlando Bloom

You fall into my arms. / You are the good gift of destruction's path, / When life sickens more than disease / And boldness is the root of beauty- / Which draws us together.

Boris Pasternak

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

George Orwell

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.

Katherine Mansfield

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

John Lennon

Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one.

John Piper

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Arthur Wing Pinero

Give me love and work - these two only.

William Morris

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Alexandre Dumas Père

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

I love you when I forget about me.

Joni Mitchell

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

Love that can be explained is not love.

Zhang Yimou

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

E. E. Cummings

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. and Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.

Emily Bronte

Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?

Eddie Vedder

He sees death in the prostitutes who have witnessed the death of honor, and daily multiply the death of love, who bleed away their own lives 50 times a day beneath the relentless stabbings of countless conjugations.

Ed Mcbain

True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.

Edmund Spenser

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Elizabeth Bowen

If you find someone that you think is your soul-mate, someone you could potentially spend the rest of your life with, why ruin it by staying together?

Elvira Kurt

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the "mystery" of life.

Emile M. Cioran

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?

Emily Bronte

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson

You know love is everything you say;a whisper, a word, promises you give.You feel it in the heartbeat of the day.You know this is the way love is.

Alex Langwenya

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Erich Fromm

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

Erich Fromm

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love.

Erich Fromm

Let's make the best of the situation / Before I finally go insane. / Please don't say we'll never find a way / And tell me all my love's in vain.

Eric Clapton

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Ethel Barrymore

I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.

Evita Perón

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Eustace Budgell

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

Mahatma Ghandi

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

Nikki Giovanni

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

M. C. Escher

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Socrates

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.

Oscar Wilde

Amor Fati – 'Love Your Fate', which is in fact your life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Oscar Wilde

The way to know life is to love many things.

Vincent van Gogh

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Virgil

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

Chuck Palahniuk

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Frank Sinatra

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Frank Sinatra

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

Robert Frost

We are most alive when we're in love.

John Updike

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

Sri Chinmoy

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Rita Mae Brown

On stage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Rita Mae Brown

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Rita Mae Brown

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

George F. Burns

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Mother Teresa

It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Mother Teresa

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa

There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

M. C. Escher

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao tzu

It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.

Christian Dior

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

William Shakespeare

For aught that I could ever read,Could ever hear by tale or history,The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

William Shakespeare

The course of true love was never easy.

William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

William Shakespeare

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.

William Shakespeare

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare

O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.

William Shakespeare

If rough be love with you, be rough with love.

William Shakespeare

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.

William Shakespeare

Love looks not with thine eyes, but with thine mind, Therefore is win'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

William Shakespeare

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

Horace Mann

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?

Tommy Lasorda

The only way you really do this is if you love it. It takes dedication.

Andrew Smith

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Ho Chi Minh

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

When a king comes on the turn, I love that hand even better.

Aaron Rosenberg

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent van Gogh

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Ann Landers

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Michel de Montaigne

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Bill Cosby

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Benjamin Franklin

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

English Proverb

Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.

English Proverb

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Charles M. Schulz

Love will find a lay.

Robert Byrne

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

Deepak Chopra

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.

Sri Chinmoy

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Wayne Dyer

You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.

Sri Chinmoy

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

Walt Disney

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

Sri Chinmoy

Girls bored me - they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

Walt Disney

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

Confucius

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Confucius

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Tiger Woods

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Emmet Fox

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open.

Emmet Fox

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

G. K. Chesterton

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Bronte

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Mary Renault

We only know of one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

Randy K. Milholland

I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need,by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,tears,of all my life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Fulton J. Sheen

In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.

Randy K. Milholland

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Jean Anouilh

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

G. K. Chesterton

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

Albert Camus

Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.

Randy K. Milholland

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

Jean Anouilh

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Proverb

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Fulton J. Sheen

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

William Arthur Ward

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.

Arlo Guthrie

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Fulton J. Sheen

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier