Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

Helene Cixous

Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only the soul that loves is happy

Joan Konner

Love is transcending the ego to connect with another,

Emma Thompson

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

Emma Goldman

Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.

Emma Goldman

Love is it's own protection.

John Henry Newman

How can we feel our need of His help, or our dependence on Him, or our debt to Him, or the nature of His gift to us, unless we know ourselves.... This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church.... They have never had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.

John Henry Newman

Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.

John Hagee

Love is not what you say; love is what you do

Ayn Rand

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

Ayn Rand

Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace of the men who perceived that wheat must have water in order to grow, that stones laid in a curve will form an arch, that two and two make four, that love is not served by torture and life is not fed by destruction-only by the grace of those men did the rest of them learn to experience moments when they caught the spark of being human.

Bertrand Russell

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

Anna Jameson

Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Greta Garbo

Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people or bridge the chasms of bitterness.

Henry David Thoreau

Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal...

Henry David Thoreau

Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all therest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

Jessica Hart

Love is about needing someone, about feeling as if the day isn't quite right if they're not there. Its about knowing that, no matter how bad a day you've had, the moment you see them again or hear their voice, the world is back in its place.

Jessica Chastain

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

Estella Warren

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

Ernest Hemingway

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Ernest Holmes

Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free.

Ernest Holmes

Love is at the Center of our being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love.

Erin Heatherton

I love being in Chicago.

Florence Henderson

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another - that is everything.

Flora Lewis

There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.

Fiona Apple

Love is love, and there will never be too much.