Love Quotes

"That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without."
-Henry David Thoreau

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-Henry David Thoreau

"We love because it's the only true adventure."
-Nikki Giovanni

"To love someone means to see him as God intended him."
-Fydor Dostoevsky

"The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves."
-Abraham Lincoln

"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."
-Abraham Lincoln

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If a thing loves, it is infinite."
-William Blake

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

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
-Dr. Seuss

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato

"Love is a serious mental disease."
-Plato

"To love someone is to identify with them."
-Aristotle

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
-Buddha

"I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"Everything is clearer when you're in love."
-John Lennon

"There is not love where there is no will."
-Indira Gandhi

"I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School."
-Frank Sinatra

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
-Sophocles

"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The very essence of love is uncertainty."
-Oscar Wilde

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
-Oscar Wilde

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."
-Oscar Wilde

"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."
-Oscar Wilde