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“If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and if we die deplores us forever and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom—whence it passes with the pure soul beyond death; surely it shall be immortal!”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) said by 1863 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love the Grammy nominations this year. Anybody who really loves what they do got rewarded for it. It's not a death match between Ray Charles and Jessica Simpson.”
John Mayer (born 1977) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No byline (2004-12-20), "John Mayer". Newsweek. 144 (25):71
“Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the “true man,” and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.”
Max Stirner (1806–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: S. Byington, trans. (1913), p. 383
“A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...”
Edmund White (1940–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The tribute most high to a head that is royal, Is love from a heart that loves liberty too.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa, the aromatic America of Columbus, Catholic America, Spanish America, the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am not on a bed of roses" —our America, trembling with hurricanes, trembling with Love: O men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls, our America lives. And dreams. And loves. And it is the daughter of the Sun. Be careful.”
Rubén Darío (1867–1916) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cantos de Vida y Esperanza (Songs of Life and Hope). A Roosevelt (To Roosevelt) (1905).
“In every case, here's the challenging bottom line: practicing tough love is- without question- toughest on the man who loves the most.”
William G. Boykin (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.”
Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love painting the way one loves the body of a women.. ..if painting must have an intellectual and social background, it is only to enhance and make more rich an essentially warm, simple, radiant act, for which everyone has a need.”
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Conversation with W.C. Seitz, in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983
“In this way, Allah will love the pious person because He, the Most Exalted, loves those who are pious, truthful, charitable, devout, and are sincere to Him and to His Prophet.”
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (1935–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.”
Dinah Shore (1916–1994) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Sy Safransky: Sunbeams: a book of quotations, (1990), Page 124
“So beautiful and fortunate You're the one who hates to love But he's the one who loves to hate.”
Elvis Costello (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No boy is worth your teenage years!." "For me to be in love with someone means that I have to accept who I am, and not allow another person to define me. And if someone loves me in spite of all that, then that's a start.”
Hayley Williams (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.”
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Thomas Jones, The Duties of Man and Other Essays (1915), page 61
“When nobody in the world loves any other, naturally the strong will overpower the weak, the many will oppress the few, the wealthy will mock the poor, the honoured will disdain the humble, the cunning will deceive the simple. Therefore all the calamities, strifes, complaints, and hatred in the world have arisen out of want of mutual love. Therefore the benevolent disapproved of this want.”
Mozi (470–391 BC) said by 391 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The purest love is between parents and children. Other loves may be more thrilling, but none are as deep or enduring.”
Siddharth Katragadda (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“52. The state of prayer can be aptly described as a habitual state of imperturbable calm. It snatches to the heights of intelligible reality the spirit which loves wisdom and which is truly spiritualized by the most intense love.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God does not love you because you are good, God loves you because God is good.”
Richard Rohr (born 1943) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Politics and Spirituality conference, Washington D.C. 2006
“Ow! Have mercy on my little Tulane She's too alive to try to live alone And I know her needs And although she loves me She's gonna try to make it While the poor boy's gone Somebody should tell her to live And I'll understand it And even love her more When I come back home”
Chuck Berry (1926–2017) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Have Mercy Judge" (1970)
“My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...but what I eventually came to understand was that if a woman truly loves you, you can't always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think the truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn't mean they don't love you.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.”
G. Stanley Hall (1844–1924) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: G. Stanley Hall. From Generation to Generation, The American Magazine, July 1908
“Love of the people is an aristocratic calling. The democrat only loves the people at election time.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“May Allah give us strength to make love, compassion, modernity, democracy, freedom, everything beautiful and everything Allah loves prevail in the world.”
Adnan Oktar (born 1956) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 20 April 2013.
“Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person—to say nothing of one's neighbor!—as God loves him.”
Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.”
Alan Paton (1903–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love Russia as few people do - I've demonstrated it my whole life, but those who plow here in Russia, are not my brothers. I heed a Russian life with my entire existence, I look into the eyes of all the people around me, nothing.. .And the main horror is that we long for Russia and here no one loves her, they only mimic those feelings.”
Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) first seen 1458 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Werefkin to Jawlensky, 1909-1910, fond 19-1458, pp. 35–36 as reprinted in Lauchkaite-Surgailene, Lauchkaite-Surgailene, "Marianna Verevkina. Zhizn' v iskusstve," Vilnius, no. 3, sec. 15, 136
“Allah loves those who worship Him to become shaheeds, whose blood is spilled out of love for Him.”
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (1971–2019) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, 22 August 2018 (date of quote)
“I have never heard any p Diddy I love him and he loves me good American Latin jazz orchestra, never. You can know lots of music, but the clave is something you can’t learn anywhere. I go to universities all over the place for Latin jazz workshops and I see that. They don’t even know what a drum is.”
Tito Puente (1923–2000) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his opinion regarding the state of American Latin jazz in "Q&A; with TITO PUENTE : The Mambo King: ‘My Chops Are Still Good’" in Los Angeles Times (October 14, 1994)
“Why can't one love with one's body those whom one loves with one's heart?”
Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whoever loves himself cannot love God.”
Diadochos of Photiki (400–486) said by 486 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I prefer to be surprised. I’m a shape-shifter and a yogi who loves well crafted indie films with deep themes, but lately my main requirement is that a film be released. It’s disheartening to invest time and love into a good film with a limited release. Therefore, the more mainstream projects are a better gamble.”
Julie Carmen (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Interview With Actress Julie Carmen, Fright Night Part 2, In The Mouth Of Madness (10 August 2018)
“Unleash The Gospel is not a numbers game. It's about falling in love with the one who loves us, and that's a person-by-person change.”
Gerard William Battersby (born 1960) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Archdiocese of Detroit’s Unleash the Gospel embraces missionary spirit (25 June 2019)
“I think the addict has a bad opinion of himself and of others. When he sees that somebody loves him and appreciates him, he begins to love life. Then, slowly, he can go forward in life. This needs time.”
Guy-Paul Noujaim (born 1935) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Mother of Light’ Helps Addicts Find Healing and Hope (December 1, 2017)
“May the Almighty, who in the cross of Jesus testifies how much He loves us, help that no religious community in Croatia turns into a captivating ideology, but that their members manifest their faith in love that liberates and accepts others regardless of their diversity.”
Antun Škvorčević (born 1947) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Jesus – the exile and the traveller’ (12 January 2019)
“I think that’s the thing that happens in my life that is closest to art and so I tend to make art about it. I also really love nostalgic writers. Two of my favorite writers are Proust and Nabokov, who are all about lost childhoods and loves that could have been.”
Liana Finck (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A divine philosopher is he who through ascetic purification and noetic contemplation has achieved a direct union with God, and is a true friend of God, in that he esteems and loves the supreme, creative and true wisdom above every other love, wisdom and knowledge.”
Gregory of Sinai (1255–1346) said by 1346 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is nothing wrong with dating a fan. Are they not human beings? In as much as the person is caring and loves my job, I can definitely date or marry a fan. However, I won’t go for someone that doesn’t love my job.”
Temitope Solaja wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Forgiving you, Well, she's stronger than I am. You don't look much like a man from where I'm at. It's plain to see desperation showed it's truth You love her, and she loves you with all she has I guess I should've been more like that.”
Miranda Lambert (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one, therefore, can love God too much, But on the contrary, the more fervently he loves him, The better and the holier he becomes.”
Denis the Carthusian (1402–1471) said by 1471 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Denis the Carthusian, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, trans. Ide M. Ni Riain (Dublin: The Columba Press, 2013), 71.
“I remember when I came to Nigeria, I went downstairs to my kitchen, I saw my cook, he was on his phone, I was like ‘what are you doing?’ He explains it’s not a game, he’s betting, football. Everyone in Nigeria loves football, they all love to do stuff like that you know.”
Yakubu Ayegbeni (born 1982) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yakubu Ayegbeni: The importance of finding the right brand to promote. Insider Sport, 13 October 2020.
“If we trivialize Communion, we trivialize everything, and we cannot lose a moment as important as that of receiving Communion, of recognizing the real presence of Christ there, of the God who is the love above all loves, as we sing in a hymn in Spanish.”
Antonio Cañizares Llovera (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spanish cardinal recommends that Catholics receive Communion on the tongue (28 July 2011) Catholic News Agency
“The cross is the single greatest demonstration of love ever seen. Help them to understand it. Repeatedly call their attention to it. Help them to understand God doesn't simply tell us He loves us; He shows us.”
Allen Henry Vigneron (born 1948) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Preacher: Servant of the Word of God - Pastoral Letter (July 2015) Archdiocese of Detroit
“hey always knew that he had a big life traveling before and was always on tour and all of that and that he lives in different countries all the time and loves to live all over the place. So we manage it really well. They love their lives and their routine and schedule. My job as their mom is just to make sure they stick to their routine and that they’re healthy and happy.”
Kim Kardashian (born 1980) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kim Kardashian on Ending Her Marriage: ‘I Had to Save Myself to Be a Better Mom’ ELLE (October 15, 2025).
“When I am on stage something takes over. I become that excited little girl again, who is happy to see people singing and jumping, saying “Oh, they love me,” and at least someone loves me. That child in me comes out and the stage for me is a very nice playground that heals my heart while praising God.”
Rebecca Malope (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My favourite Christmas dish is the classic trifle. It’s not necessarily my favourite, but I love how everyone else loves it! And there’s always a low key competition as to who can make the best trifle.”
Tamaryn Green (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we as a world ever got even a hint of the incredible love with which God loves us, we would be living in such a different world than we do now.”
Mpho Tutu van Furth (born 1963) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mpho Andrea Tutu van Furth: I’m Here For Love,October 24, 2023,by Tami Simon