Quotes about love

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

George Jean Nathan

Love would never leave us alone.

Bob Marley

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

William Shakespeare

Love makes no conditions, no ifs, no buts.

Osho

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Barbara De Angelis

I love everything that's old, old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserves your love and affection.

Buddha

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Alexander Pope

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

Alice Walker

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

No human creature can give orders to love.

George Sand

Love, like a chicken salad a restaurant has, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Helen Rowland

It’s so easy to think about love, to talk about love, to wish for love.
But it’s not always easy to recognize love when we hold it in our hands.

Jaka

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Rabindranath Tagore

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Anthony Storr

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

Audrey Hepburn

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

Anthony de Mello

Everyone has their own opinion as to what love is. There are no words to explain love because love doesn't consist of words. Love is about how you feel, and nothing can change that.

Allan Khnanisho

Man is the hunter, woman is his game.
The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins.
They love us for it, and we ride them down.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes.

Hannah Moore

Whoever embarks with a woman embarks with a storm, but they are themselves the safety boats.

Houssaye

None love, but they who wish to love.

Jean Racine

The story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann

I love women, my mother is a woman.

Mike Tyson

Mr Chamberlain loves the working man. He loves to see him work.

Winston Churchill

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent love protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Mohandas K. Ghandi

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love.
Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Ernest Becker

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman.
Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Remy de Gourmont

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Marilyn Monroe