The topic of love is near to our hearts. Love is an intangible but extremely vital part of our lives. Here’s what some famous people had to say about love.
“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
“To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.”
Goethe
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
Voltaire
“Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for.”
Mae West
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
Mother Teresa
“Now a soft kiss — Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”
John Keats
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Gautama Buddha
“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
Iris Murdoch
“Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
John Lennon
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage; because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”
Madonna
“With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.”
Rita Rudner
“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
Martin Luther
“To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.”
Ogden Nash
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
Christopher Marlowe
“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”
St. Augustine
“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
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Blushing is the color of virtue.”
Diogenes
“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 Makepeace Thackeray
“Don’t forget to love yourself.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”
Gautama Buddha
“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 not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
Shakespeare
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Mother Theresa
“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”
Benjamin Franklin
“They do not love that do not show their love.”
William Shakespeare
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Where there is love there is life.”
Gandhi
“We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”
William Gladstone
“The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.”
Victor Hugo
“To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”
Blaise Pascal
“This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.”
Thomas Mann
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”
Sir Thomas Moore
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”
P. J. O’Rourke
“Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, / Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.”
Ovid
“Love, free as air at sight of human ties, / Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.”
Alexander Pope
“Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.”
William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
William Shakespeare
“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”
William Shakespeare
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
William Shakespeare
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.”
Voltaire