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Religious literature16 quotes
For hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal. — Pali Tipitaka · 100 BCLove is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. — Apostle Paul · 55By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. — Song of Solomon 3:1 · 965 BCMy beloved is mine, and I am his. — Song of Solomon 2:16 · 965 BCFlesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. — John Milton · 1667If I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good. — Apostle Paul · 55All 16 quotes →Comedy (play)15 quotes
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare · 1600If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die. — William Shakespeare · 1602But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599Ask me no reason why I love you, for though
Love use Reason for his precisian, he admits him not for his counselor. — William Shakespeare · 1602Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. — William Shakespeare · 1602But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit. — William Shakespeare · 1598All 15 quotes →Comedy10 quotes
I am someone who is looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love. — Carrie · 2004This ain't something a man usually tells a woman: I love you, Edith. — Archie Bunker · 1973Love...is not a big enough word. It's not a big enough word for how I feel about my wife. — Del Griffith · 1987Will you still love me when I'm in my carbohydrate, sequined-jumpsuit, young-girls-in-white-cotton-panties, waking-up-in-a-pool-of-your-own-vomit, bloated-purple-dead-on-a-toilet phase? — Wayne Campbell · 1992I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. — Harry Burns · 1989Faint heart never won fair lady!
Nothing venture, nothing win-
Blood is thick, but water's thin-
In for a penny, in for a pound-
It's Love that makes the world go round! — W.S. Gilbert · 1882All 10 quotes →Romantic comedy10 quotes
I love you. You...complete me. — Jerry Maguire · 1996I want the fairy tale. — Vivian Ward · 1990I am someone who is looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love. — Carrie · 2004I just woke up one day and I knew. — Summer · 2009I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart. — Crash Davis · 1988Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003All 10 quotes →Drama9 quotes
Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection. — Jons · 1957I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is. — Forrest Gump · 1994What you call love was invented by guys like me... To sell Nylons. — Don Draper · 2007You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think it counts as love. — Sam (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) · 2012Love is nothing but lust and cheating and lies. — Jons · 1957All 9 quotes →Romantic comedy (film)9 quotes
I love you. You...complete me. — Jerry Maguire · 1996I want the fairy tale. — Vivian Ward · 1990I just woke up one day and I knew. — Summer · 2009I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart. — Crash Davis · 1988Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. — Harry Burns · 1989All 9 quotes →Drama (film)8 quotes
Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection. — Jons · 1957I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is. — Forrest Gump · 1994You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think it counts as love. — Sam (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) · 2012Love is nothing but lust and cheating and lies. — Jons · 1957But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real. — Jesse · 2013All 8 quotes →Romantic drama8 quotes
Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970I wish I knew how to quit you. — Jack Twist · 2005But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real. — Jesse · 2013The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, and makes us reach for more, that, plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me and what I hope to give to you forever. — Noah · 2004I am no one special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and for me, that has always been enough. — Duke · 2004I love you so much and I hate this war so much. — Ilsa Lund · 1942All 8 quotes →Romantic drama (film)8 quotes
Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970I wish I knew how to quit you. — Jack Twist · 2005But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real. — Jesse · 2013The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, and makes us reach for more, that, plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me and what I hope to give to you forever. — Noah · 2004I am no one special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and for me, that has always been enough. — Duke · 2004I love you so much and I hate this war so much. — Ilsa Lund · 1942All 8 quotes →Tragedy (play)8 quotes
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep. The more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite. — William Shakespeare · 1597Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are. — John Dryden · 1669Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love. — William Shakespeare · 1616Love, unconquerable,
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,
And mortal man, in his one day's dusk,
Trembles before your glory. — Sophocles · 442 BCWhen love begins to sicken and decay
It useth an enforcèd ceremony. — William Shakespeare · 1599Th’ expedition of my violent love
Outrun the pauser, reason. — William Shakespeare · 1616All 8 quotes →Autobiography and memoir6 quotes
Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 1939One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man's step when he climbs the stairs. — Colette · 1941Marriage is a sacrament which I detest... Because it is the tomb of love. — Giacomo Casanova · 1838I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love. — Jeanette Winterson · 2011In love, the only safety lies in flight. — Napoleon Bonaparte · 1820Comedy (film)6 quotes
Love...is not a big enough word. It's not a big enough word for how I feel about my wife. — Del Griffith · 1987Will you still love me when I'm in my carbohydrate, sequined-jumpsuit, young-girls-in-white-cotton-panties, waking-up-in-a-pool-of-your-own-vomit, bloated-purple-dead-on-a-toilet phase? — Wayne Campbell · 1992I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. — Harry Burns · 1989Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. — Westley · 1987I could never find time for love. It's too heavy. It's an anchor that drowns a man. Besides, I got the sky, the smell of jet exhaust, my bike. — Topper Harley · 1991Love, it's a motherfucker, huh? — Waiter · 2003Coming of age story6 quotes
I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. — Charles Dickens · 1861I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens · 1861Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her! — Charles Dickens · 1861Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. — Hermann Hesse · 1904Love must not entreat... Or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. — Hermann Hesse · 1919I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Philosophical literature5 quotes
O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled, as is the universe, by Love! — Boethius · 523Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. — Theodor Adorno · 1951Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. — C.S. Lewis · 1944It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." — Erich Fromm · 1956Comedy (TV)3 quotes
I am someone who is looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love. — Carrie · 2004This ain't something a man usually tells a woman: I love you, Edith. — Archie Bunker · 1973If you don't believe in love, what's the point of living? — Ron Swanson · 2009Comedy drama3 quotes
I love you. You...complete me. — Jerry Maguire · 1996I just woke up one day and I knew. — Summer · 2009I love her. She breaks my heart again and again, but I love her. — Troy Dyer · 1994Comedy drama (film)3 quotes
I love you. You...complete me. — Jerry Maguire · 1996I just woke up one day and I knew. — Summer · 2009I love her. She breaks my heart again and again, but I love her. — Troy Dyer · 1994Crime3 quotes
All we've got is that maybe you love me and maybe I love you. — Samuel Spade · 1941When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? — Sam 'Ace' Rothstein · 1995Find somebody you want to spend the rest of your life with, and hold onto her forever. — John Bridger · 2003Crime (film)3 quotes
All we've got is that maybe you love me and maybe I love you. — Samuel Spade · 1941When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? — Sam 'Ace' Rothstein · 1995Find somebody you want to spend the rest of your life with, and hold onto her forever. — John Bridger · 2003Epic3 quotes
To love another person is to see the face of God. — Jean Valjean · 2012When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? — Sam 'Ace' Rothstein · 1995Scarlett! Look at me! I love you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman. — Rhett Butler · 1939Epic (film)3 quotes
To love another person is to see the face of God. — Jean Valjean · 2012When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? — Sam 'Ace' Rothstein · 1995Scarlett! Look at me! I love you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman. — Rhett Butler · 1939Narrative poem3 quotes
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. — William Shakespeare · 1593Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies.
Love is all truth, Lust full of forgèd lies. — William Shakespeare · 1593Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution. — William Shakespeare · 1594Pop music3 quotes
How wonderful life is while you're in the world. — Elton John · 1970I can’t make you love me if you don’t.
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t. — Bonnie Raitt · 1991I see friends shaking hands, saying, 'How do you do.' They're really saying, 'I love you.' — Louis Armstrong · 1967Christmas2 quotes
Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003But you know the thing about romance is people only get together right at the very end. — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003Christmas (film)2 quotes
Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003But you know the thing about romance is people only get together right at the very end. — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003Coming of age2 quotes
You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think it counts as love. — Sam (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) · 2012Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and the illusionary need for divorce lawyers. — Kevin Dolenz · 1985Coming of age (film)2 quotes
You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think it counts as love. — Sam (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) · 2012Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and the illusionary need for divorce lawyers. — Kevin Dolenz · 1985Epic poem2 quotes
Flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. — John Milton · 1667What thou art is mine;
Our state cannot be severed, we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self. — John Milton · 1667Fantasy2 quotes
A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others. — The Wizard of Oz · 1939Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. — Westley · 1987Fantasy (film)2 quotes
A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others. — The Wizard of Oz · 1939Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. — Westley · 1987