Explore Quotes on Love

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Your heart is my piñata.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

Lovers alone wear sunlight.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.