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“Let those love now who never loved before; Let those who always loved, now love the more.”
Thomas Parnell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Thomas Parnell
“Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.”
William Sloane Coffin (1924–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.”
Margaret Atwood (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whoever does not see his friends in a good light loves them little. To see in a good light. — Whoever does not see in a good light is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover. Whoever does not see in a good light has not been able to lift his mind up to what is there or his heart to what is good.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This time I think that my lover Understands me If we have faith in each other Then we can be Strong, baby I will be your father figure Put your tiny hand in mine I will be your preacher teacher Anything you have in mind I will be your father figure I have had enough of crime I will be the one who loves you … Til the end of time.”
George Michael (1963–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God is the only lover and He loves in different forms - parents, husband, wife, friend, children, animals. All are His forms and He, Himself, has no form.”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I need a place to confess that I don't have everything figured out. Christianity is not a program for avoiding mistakes; it is a faith of the guilty. There is no "right" or perfect way to be. We learn from our mistakes; we extend grace to others and ourselves. In the same way a lover who loves your body allows you to have grace for it, so is grace the antithesis of rejection.”
Nadia Bolz-Weber (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Come, take my hand And wander in the willow river Glistening the blue bells Come, take my flesh And wander in the sunny corn That shimmer stills at snowfalls 'Cause I love you lover I love you, like I love The Four high Seasons.”
Mike Oldfield (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere.”
Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Steinway Hall (November 20, 1871), New York City, New York.
“He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship…”
Mary Renault (1905–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Because your heart, by loving fancies blinded, Has scorned a guest in pious life grown old, Your lover shall forget you though reminded, Or think of you as of a story told.”
Kalidasa (active around 400) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Act 4 (tr. Arthur W. Ryder, 1912)
“Oh night thou was my guide Oh night more loving than the rising sun Oh night that joined the lover to the beloved one transforming each of them into the other.”
Loreena McKennitt (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God’s purpose of creating human beings is so that we can live loving God as our bridegroom, our lover.”
Jung Myung Seok (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never talk ill of anybody, be he a devotee, a monk, or an ordinary householder, nor despise any for a wrong act. After all, everyone is a child of the Lord. Who knows today's sinning will not make him a saint tomorrow? Other acts do not count so much as a moment's of love for the Lord. Blessed is he who has loved Him even for a moment. Saint or sinner, the Lord loves all.”
Swami Adbhutananda (died 1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think nobody really loves America more than black Americans, because black Americans loved America even when America didn’t love us back”
Jamal Simmons (born 1971) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Simmons at the Canadian-American Business Council luncheon. 2008-11-13
“I've always loved life. Those who love life can never adapt, undergo, be commanded. Who loves life is always with the rifle at the window to defend life ... A human being who adapts, who suffers, who makes himself commanded, is not a human being.”
Smita Nair Jain (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was ever his doctrine that we lose nothing of what is good and sweet in the past, and that we suck out of all things a kind of essence that abides with us always, and that every soul that loves is a treasure-house of all that she has ever loved. It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world and in saecula saeculorum.”
Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How delightful it would be to love if one loved always! But alas! there are no eternal loves.”
Madeleine de Scudéry (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All your problems come down to love. Your love life is what your problem is, and everybody else's on earth. God in existence is man and woman. There's nothing else. And unless you have loved God in existence - your duality which is woman or man - unless you have united with that through love and devotion without going through your feelings of love, you're not going to be enlightened.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lack of love and egoism drags people into fragmentation. Love on the other hand brings about integration. Would anyone want to be separated from his loved one? One would only want to be separated from those he doesn’t love. One would not want to see those he hates. All these fragmentations in the world stem from a lack of love.”
Adnan Oktar (born 1956) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4 January 2014.
“...love one another, as the Lord says: "This is My commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you." And let them show their love by the works they do for each other, according as the Apostle says: "let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.”
Francis of Assisi (disputed) first seen 1221 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Francis of Assisi, Rule of 1221, Rule 11 - That the Brothers ought not to speak or detract, but ought to love one another.
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, edited by Alvin Redman (1952)
“There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Clara: The loving heart delighteth in old songs ; They say so many things we wish to say, And wake our sympathies, and make us feel Less strange ourselves. Others have loved as well, And left these tender relics of their love.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Saviour! teach me, day by day, Love's sweet lesson to obey; Sweeter lesson cannot be, Loving Him who first loved me. Charity is the very livery of Christ.”
Hugh Latimer (1485–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 395
“Familial relationships are never simple, are they? I think if you had a simple family life, you would have been very lucky. Love is so complicated. My father loved us, but he beat us! How do you come to terms with this very loving man who also was an abusive man?”
Shirley Geok-lin Lim (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes. For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him. For he is of the tribe of Tiger.”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sum of the whole matter is this — He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He who loves God is one in will and heart with Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its ultimate purpose and result. That is Christianity in its means and working forces. That is Christianity in its starting-point and foundation.”
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Lord Jesus is a friend who never changes. There is no fickleness about Him. Those whom He loves, He loves unto the end.”
J. C. Ryle (1816–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.”
Confucius (551–479 BC) said by 479 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.”
John Donne (1572–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And they ask you about menstruation. Say, "It is harm, so keep away from wives during menstruation. And do not approach them until they are pure. And when they have purified themselves, then come to them from where Allāh has ordained for you. Indeed, Allāh loves those who are constantly repentant and loves those who purify themselves.”
Muhammad (571–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Taleswapper looked at Miller. “I'm nothing,” he said. “A Christian isn’t nothing,” said Taleswapper. “I'm no Christian, either.” “Ah,” said Taleswapper. “A Deist, then, like Tom Jefferson.” The children murmured at his mention of the great man's name. “Taleswapper, I'm a father who loves his children, a husband who loves his wife, a farmer who pays his debts, and a miller without a millstone.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She loves him more than he will ever know He loves her more than he will ever show”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe. The words are simple, the concept clear—but you don't believe it, do you? Nor do I. How could I, when we're both so lovable? Are my values then so diametrically opposed to those that nature preserves? This is the key point.”
Annie Dillard (1945–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One loves to say what he knows, the other loves to say what he thinks.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man loves what is small; and he loves what is big, through the same weakness.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whenever I put the headsets on now," he'd continued, "I really do understand what I find there. When those kids sing about 'She loves you,' yeah, well, you know, she does, she's any number of people, all over the world, back through time, different colors, shapes, sizes, distances from death, but she loves. And the 'you' is everybody. And herself.”
Thomas Pynchon (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.”
José Martí (1853–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.”
Joseph Lewis (1889–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, he who loves must share the lot of the one he loves.”
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And he who loves last loves loudest.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When somebody loves you It's no good unless he loves you - all the way Happy to be near you When you need someone to cheer you - all the way.”
Sammy Cahn (1913–1993) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: All the Way (1957)
“I want to be the girl with the most cake He only loves those things because he loves to see them break I fake it so real, I am beyond fake And someday you will ache like I ache Someday you will ache like I ache”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The writer who loves or hates is less persuasive than the one who loves and hates.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why doesn't she feel more somber about Richard's perversely simultaneous good fortune ("an anguished, prophetic voice in American letters") and his decline ("You have no T-cells at all, none that we can detect")? What is wrong with her? She loves Richard, she thinks of him constantly, but she perhaps loves the day slightly more.”
Michael Cunningham (born 1952) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 11, 1999 Fourth Estate paperback edition.
“King whom one cannot reach in the distant sky! Suen whom one cannot reach in the distant sky! King who loves justice, who hates evil! Suen who loves justice, who hates evil! Justice brings joy justly to your heart.”
Lugalbanda wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The night's too long; It just drags on and on. And then there's never enough. That's when the sun starts coming up. Don't let go of her hand, You just might be the right man. She loves the night, She loves the night, She doesn't want the night Don't want it to end.”
Lucinda Williams (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who loves, does everything without effort, or loves his effort.”
Bernadette Soubirous (1844–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source