Quotes on Love

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love.

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.