Love
George Eliot on Anger
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
Lynda Barry on Love
“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”
Albert Einstein on Love
“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.”
Louise Beal on Society
“Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.”
Bertrand Russell on Love and Happiness
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Helen Rowland on Marriage
“One man’s folly is another man’s wife.”
Margaret Atwood on Love
“The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”
Somerset Maugham on Love
“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
Saint Augustine on Love
“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
Arthur Rubinstein on Life and Love
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
Proverbs 15:17 on Love
“A simple meal with love is better than a feast where there is hatred.”
Elie Wiesel on Love
“The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference.”
Robert Frost on Poetry
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Tom Morris on Love and Life
“The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out into the world and doing something original.”
Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Love
“Love that is not madness is not love.”
Aristotle on Love
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger on Movies
“I have a love interest in every one of my films – a gun”
Victor Hugo on Love
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Honoré de Balzac on Love
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
The Bible on Love
“Hatred stirs up trouble; love overlooks the wrongs that others do.”
Josh Billings on Marriage
“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.”
Robert Frost on Love
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Dorothy Day on Love and Community
“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
Ann Landers on Love
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times.”
Elbert Hubbard on Friendship
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”