Some interesting LOVE quotes. Please add yours

[Guled92]

"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

-Abraham Crowley

 

 

"So much of what we know of love we learn at home."

-unknown

 

 

"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."

-unknown

 

 

"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."

-unknown

 

 

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

-Saint-Exupery

 

 

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

-Ingrid Bergman

 

 

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

-John Donne

 

 

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

-Benjamin Franklin

 

 

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

-Henry Ward Beecher

 

 

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."

-Joseph Conrad

 

 

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."

-La Rochefoucauld

 

 

"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"

-Christopher Marlowe

 

 

"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."

-Houssaye

 

 

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."

-La Bruyere

 

 

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."

-St. Augustine

 

 

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

-Les Miserables

 

 

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."

-Alexander Smith

 

 

"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."

-La Rochefoucauld

 

 

"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

 

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."

-Charles Caleb Colton

 

 

"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."

-Lawrence Durrell

 

 

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."

-La Rochefoucauld

 

 

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

-Stendhal

 

 

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

-Thoreau

 

 

"Blushing is the color of virtue."

-Diogenes

 

 

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."

-Leo F. Buscaglia

 

 

"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."

-Dr. Karl Menninger

 

 

"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting."

-Mother Theresa

 

 

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."

-William M. Thackeray

 

 

"Don't forget to love yourself."

-Soren Kierkegaard

 

 

"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."

-Unknown

 

 

"Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!"

-Unknown

 

 

"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away."

-Alicia Barnhart

 

 

"You call it madness, but I call it love."

-Don Byas

 

 

"Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived."

-Unknown

 

 

"He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes."

-Buddha

 

 

"Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever."

-Unknown

 

 

"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less."

-Will Moss

 

 

"If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest."

-Unknown

 

 

"The eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love!"

-Margaret Atwood

 

 

"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."

-Unknown

 

 

"Within you I lose myself

Without you I find myself

Wanting to be lost again."

-Unknown

 

 

"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."

-Shakespeare

 

 

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."

-Unknown

 

 

"We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives."

-Unknown

 

 

"Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost."

-Kaleel Jamison

 

 

"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood."

-Karen Casey

 

 

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

-Mother Theresa

 

 

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."

-Benjamin Franklin

[Keeping Faith]

WOW that was a lot of quotes! :eek:

 

"Love is merely the exchange between two illusions and the contact of two skins" (Chamfort)

 

"Love is an irresistble desire to be irresistibly desired" (Robert Frost)

 

"Love is the wisdom of the fool, and the folly of the wise" (samuel johnson)

[lovely me]

gteat ........ok my turn.....

 

You don’t love someone because they are

beautiful;

they are beautiful because you love them!

 

Love does not consist in gazing at each other

but in looking together in the same direction.

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

 

Love can be understood only “from the inside,” as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it."

--Robert C Solomon.

 

Guys are like stars -

so many to pick from

but only one can make

all your dreams come true!

by lovely me loool

peace

&love

[shyhem]

Too much talk about love on this website,are we that desperate for love.

[Iffah]

Originally posted by Shyhem:

Too much talk about love on this website

Lol..that's what I was thinking. But oh well, we're in a public forum...so we just have to live with it.

[Keeping Faith]

LOOOOOOL

 

come on Ilhaam and shyhem guys! tell US since u guys have been observing around :rolleyes: hmm didn't even notice!

[Miriam1]

The weather is beautiful, the flowers are in bloom, ppl its the season of love and this the perfect time to indulge in the emotions that rock our very being.

 

Lets make LOVE not war :cool:

[ProudSista]

I hope you like those walal they are every old but lovely! :rolleyes:

 

Come live with me and be my love,

And we will all the pleasures prove.

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

 

 

 

Grow old along with me!

The best is yet to be.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

 

 

 

I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

 

 

How delicious is the winning

of a kiss at love's beginning.

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)

 

 

Drink to me only with thine eyes,

And I will pledge with mine.

Ben Jonson (1573-1637)

 

 

 

I love thee to the depth and breadth

and height my soul can reach.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

 

If ever two were one, then surely we. If

ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

 

 

I wonder, by my troth,

what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

John Donne (1572-1631)

 

If you like them holla back I got some more!!

[ProudSista]

OOPS I was ment to say VERY not every!!

 

[Lefty]

Some of you really need to know atleast some Somali-love Quotes.

 

 

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[maajo]

lol..too much talking about love..i dont know wht u guys want to do....qoley camal ma is gaad gadosiin...ko walbo jaceyl..every one says jaceyl..there is no love in this century...

jaceylow xaal qaado...MUREFU IS MISSING CUZ OF LOVE...HIS HEALTH WAS OKI BEFORE HE FALLS IN LIVE..BUT NOW SHIT WHEN WE LOVE ..WE ARE WRONG..JUST WHAT U NEEDIS SEXY..DO AND LIVE THAT IT IS ..AND STOP THESE SELFISH QOUTZZZ:)

[LadyDotNet]

Nice choices - enjoyed reading them all - here are my select few

 

Henry Van Dyke

"Time is too slow for those who wait,

too swift for those who fear,

too long for those who grieve,

too short for those who rejoice,

but for those who love, time is eternity."

 

Paul Tillich

"The first duty of love - is to listen."

 

Anais Nin

"The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud

is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom."

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

 

Jacques Benigne Bossuel

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."

 

Goethe

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the

real with the ideal never goes unpunished."

 

 

Woodrow Wyatt

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."

 

Plato

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

 

Charles Dickens

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires,

and a touch that never hurts."

[boycott]

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

--Pierre Corneille

The speech of someone in love bores everyone except the loved one.

--Nom de Plume

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

--goethe

Love changes, a thug changes, and best friends become strangers.....

--nas

Love is merely a maddness.

--w.shakespear

Love is eternal. The aspect of it may change, but the essence remains the same.

--v.van gogh

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

-- Voltaire

We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love.

--Sigmund Freud

Love is being stupid together.

--Paul Valery

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

--Albert Einstein

All you need is love.

--John Lennon

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved- loved for ourselves,

or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

--Victor Hugo

know that somewhere in the Universe exists my perfect soulmate

but looking for her is much more difficult than just staying at home and ordering another pizza.

--Alf Whit

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

--Melanie Griffith, Milk Money

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

--Pearl Bailey

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

--Henny Youngman

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

--Woody Allen

Hey scott, i kno ull neva read this but i LOVE U.

--by Railway gurl

When we first kissed, I closed my eyes, You closed yours, and... we missed!

--by Kristel

Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

-- Woody Allen

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question.

-- Lily Tomlin

If love is blind, what is the purpose of lingerie?

--Unknown