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“Why do I love him so much, mamma? Why do I feel so sorry for him?" she went on in a quivering voice, and her eyes glistened with tears. "Who is he? What is he like? As light as a little feather, as a little crumb, but I love him; I love him like a real person. Here he can do nothing, he can't talk, and yet I know what he wants with his little eyes.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God.”
Jonathan Edwards (theologian) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The collective is the object of all idolatry, this it is which chains us to the earth. In the case of avarice: gold is of the social order. In the case of ambition: power is of the social order. Science and art are full of the social element also. And love? Love is more or less of an exception: that is why we can go to God through love, not through avarice and ambition.”
Simone Weil (1909–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. . . . . . It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) said by 1843 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you love Barry Manilow, you're gonna love the Insane Clown Posse. Love 'em. They're exactly... well, they're not EXACTLY alike, but they're a little bit alike...”
Zach Galifianakis (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be bold! That's one way Of getting through life. So I turn upon her And point out that, Faced with the wickedness Of things, she does not shiver. I know how to love those Who love me, how to hate. You whom the soldiers beat, You who are all but dead, How the gods love you And I, alone in the dark, I was promised the light.”
Archilochus (688–645 BC) said by 645 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why does love, even such love as he claims to practise, need the spectacle of beauty to bring it to life? What, in the abstract, do shapely legs have to do with love, or for that matter with desire? Or is that just the nature of nature, about which one does not ask questions?”
J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were two classes of created objects which he held in the deepest and most unmingled horror: they were, dogs and children. He was not unamiable, but he could at any time have viewed the execution of a dog, or the assassination of an infant, with the liveliest satisfaction. Their habits were at variance with his love of order; and his love of order, was as powerful as his love of life.”
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) first seen 1833 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Dinner at Poplar Walk" (1833), later published as "Mr. Minns and his Cousin
“Nothing—so it seems to me...is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. … The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of—of things longer.”
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Passing of the Third Floor Back" (1908)
“My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion.”
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from the Progressive February 2002
“The correct understanding of life, let me tell you, is love despite everything. Love despite everything, that is the aim and object of life. Love, you see, is the only thing that pays in the long run, even though it might seem a dead loss in the short run.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, come along, reader of the High Journal; if you do not love words, how will you love the communication? How will you forgive me my tropes, communicate the love?”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, I do love you, I have all the love in the world left for you, only that love seems so far away from me and so strange too, for it is as though I could almost hear it, a droning or weeping, but far, far away, and a sad lost sound, it might be either approaching or receding, I can’t tell which.”
Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To choose a god of love, as he did and does, Is a little move then? Yes, it is. A larger one will be when men Love love and hate hate but do not deify them? It will be a larger one.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom. (p172)”
Cornel West (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You love too hard. It occupies the center and squeezes out your strength. If you work in the center and love to the side, you will love better in the long run, Shira. You will give more gracefully, without counting, and what you get, you will enjoy." (Malkah, six: WE KNOW TOO MUCH AND TOO LITTLE)”
Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If only I could tell each of them how much more fully I could love them now. I could give them, not the dutiful, selfish and perfunctory love of an adolescent, but an understanding love that would lighten their terrible burdens. (p253)”
Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love being Spanish as much as I love being Irish, and I really love being Irish.”
Martin Sheen (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The craving for office with which statesmen are so often reproached is, perhaps, in the more active of them, quite as much a craving for business as for emolument or power; and their unseasonable love of business grows out of their forfeiture of the love of leisure. Rarely as well as fortunately endowed by nature is that man who can love one or the other according to his occasions.”
Henry Taylor (1800–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unable to guess the answer, she asked, "Who am I, that you should love me?" "You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without moving as his words dropped like water into dry earth. "Do you believe me?" he asked. "Yes," she answered. "Do you love me?" "Yes." "I love you." And she believed him.”
Megan Whalen Turner (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.”
Edie Brickell (born 1966) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Big Day Little Boat" on Edie Brickell & New Bohemians : Ultimate Collection (2002)
“Perfect for me what is lacking of faith, of hope of Thy gifts, help Thou mine unbelief, establish my trembling hope, of love kindle its smoking flax. Shed abroad Thy love in my heart, so that I may love Thee, my friend in Thee, my enemy for Thee. O Thou who givest grace to the humble-minded, also give me grace to be humble-minded.”
Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626) said by 1626 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though I battle blind, Love is a fate resigned Memories mar my mind, Love is a fate resigned Over futile odds, And laughed at by the gods And now the final frame, Love is a losing game.”
Amy Winehouse (1983–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Maria" There is someone I should love. At times I sustain deep, deep wounds. But, by the person I should love, they are all healed. "Maria" Everyone is crying. "Maria" But I want to believe. "Maria" So I'm praying now that this is my final love. Beginnings come at random, but endings always have a reason.”
Ayumi Hamasaki (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.”
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Dorothy Day, quoted in Catholic Voices in a World on Fire (2005) by Stephen Hand, p. 180.
“She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet. (p. 130)”
Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'd love to write another song Baby especially for you I'd love to write another song And feel things bright and new In poetry I'd carve it well I'd even make it rhyme I'd love to write another song Just to get some peace of mind.”
Van Morrison (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lord, kiss me once more, fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more that I may, that I may Wear my love like heaven Wear my love like Wear my love like heaven.”
Donovan (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without peace, there can be no progress on the Earth. So let us work for peace with hearts filled with love. For when we pass from this world, all we really take with us is love - endless, infinite love.”
Steven M. Greer (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I take her hand, as I did before. I speak to her, rather timidly and at random: "Carnal love isn't the whole of love." "It's love!" Marie answers.”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's so easy to fall in love — it's so easy to fall in love. People tell me love is for fools, So here I go breaking all of the rules.”
Buddy Holly (1936–1959) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: It's So Easy, written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty (1958)
“When you reach a certain level of leadership, people cannot be neutral with you. They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.”
Imelda Marcos (born 1929) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "The day I met Imelda Marcos at BBC News (31 October 2000).
“Love gratified, is love satisfied — and love satisfied, is indifference begun.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Adoration isn’t love. I adore Annabella, but I don’t love her; and I love thee, Milicent, but I don’t adore thee.”
Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is a love that equals in its power the love of man for woman and reaches inwards as deeply. It is the love of a man or of a woman for their world. For the world of their centre where their lives burn genuinely and with a free flame.”
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.”
Swami Narayanananda (1902–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the potent individualism that doesn't prevent you from opening your arms to individualists of every land, whether libertarians or anarchists.”
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You struck me dumb, Like radium Like Peter Pan, or Superman, You have come... to save me. Come on and save me... Why don't you save me? If you could save me, From the ranks of the freaks, Who suspect they could never love anyone, Except the freaks, Who suspect they could never love anyone, Except the freaks, Who could never love anyone.”
Aimee Mann (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What was this hold she had upon me? Was I bewitched, that my mind refused to function sanely, and that judgment and reason were dethroned by some mad sentiment which I steadfastly refused to believe was love? I had never been in love. I was not in love now—the very thought was preposterous.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is the main thing in love? To know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden — the passion for the revealed.”
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The House at Old Pimen, ch. 2 (1934).
“The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s Presence, Which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite.”
Helen Schucman (1909–1981) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Course in Miracles, p. 1 (1976)
“Your God still walks in Eden, between the ancient trees, Where Youth and Love go wading through pools of primroses. And this is the sign we bring you, before the darkness fall, That Spring is risen, is risen again, That Life is risen, is risen again, That Love is risen, is risen again, and Love is Lord of all.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a union with a Higher Good by love, that alone is endless perfection. The only sufficient object for man must be something that adds to and perfects his nature, to which he must be united in love; somewhat higher than himself, yea, the highest of all, the Father of spirits. That alone completes a spirit and blesses it, — to love Him, the spring of spirits.”
Robert Leighton (bishop) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 449
“Freedom is for love and service. Our ability to give ourselves away in love and service is the true measure of our freedom. After having declared: “For you were called to freedom”, Paul adds: “Through love become slaves to one another”.”
Kurien Kunnumpuram (1931–2018) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kunnumpuram, Kurien, 2011 “Theological Exploration,” Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies 14/2 (July-Dec 2011)
“One day you'll find a love, and then we can talk on equal terms. I do not mean that to sound patronizing. You are bright and intelligent. You have courage and wit. But sometimes, it is like trying to describe colors to a blind man. Love, as I hope you will find, has great power. Even death cannot destroy it. And I still love her.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, love [...] can heal the wounds of hatred. Love can eradicate lust and greed. Through love a man of evil can come to find repentance and redemption. For the Source abandons no man.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kierkegaard was concerned to prove what might be called the activist nature of love, and in this respect he returns to the conception of the early Greek philosophers. He goes so far as to say that the poet who sings of earthly love cannot be a Christian, for love of one's neighbour is not sung, it is acted'. p. 214”
Herbert Read (1893–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love seeing Lady Gaga's boobs and bum. I love seeing Katy Perry's boobs and bum. Love it. But that's not what my music is about. I don’t make music for eyes, I make music for ears.”
Adele (singer) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Adele in Rolling Stone, 28 April 2011.
“SUPREME VALUE CENTERS IN LOVE. All true values are differentiations of this supreme value. The means by which love is differentiated into the infinite variety of its divine nature may be called “truth.” Life is the evidence of the truth of love in action.”
Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter (1909–1988) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As of a Trumpet, 1968, p. 43
“There is no inherent irreconcilability between love and coercion, but rather the reverse; under some circumstances love ceases to be love if it fails to use moral means of restraint.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source