Words of Love: Sorted by Quotation (L-Z)

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Let no one who loves be unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James Matthew Barrie
Let there be such oneness between us, that when one cries, the other tastes salt~
Rossabelle Believe
Let's enjoy love: without it we cannot live.
Emanuel Schikaneder
Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.
Len Santos
Life began after I fell in love with you
B. Hodge
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss, the gift of Love.
unknown
LIVE TO LOVE, and LOVE TO LIVE
Pierre Khalbourji
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
George Herbert
Love and you will be loved, and you will be able to do all that you could not do unloved.
Marques de Santillana
Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back. . . ("Love")
George Herbert
Love cannot be measured in how long it has been but how much you spend a day with the one you love.
Ross Iztech
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
Aphra Behn
Love covers all sins.
The Bible
Love dictates, but a kiss writes the secrets of the heart.
anonymous
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, re-made all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Gibran
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Katherine Hepburn
Love is a believing creature.
Ovidio
Love is a irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Love is a kind of warfare.
Ovid
Love is a light that never dims Like the deepest passion is the ultimate sin
Mary B. Coger
Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.
anonymous
Love is a tickle around the heart that you can't scratch!
Georgia
Love is a vine that grows into our hearts.
Adidas063
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love, you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia
Love is an emotion a woman always feels for her poodle, and sometimes for a man.
unknown
Love is an energy - it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die. (Celeste in "April Fools Day")
Bryce Courtney
Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.
Jose Marti Y Perez
Love is broad; if you love someone, you love all things, not just their beauty. Love is narrow; you love one and only one, compared to them, no one matters.
A McBraxton
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor
Love is God and God is love.
Camilla Saunders
Love is great when you find someone to give it to!! :(
Chris Myrick
Love is hard to get into, but harder to get out of.
Sean Bawden
Love is honey, how sweet it is to the soul.
unknown
Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes.
unknown
Love is like the sun: has its inner energy source that shines on you.
Helene Lagerberg
Love is more than an emotion, it's the substance of our being.
Jill Harrison
Love is neither true or false, love is love.
Camilla Saunders
love is painful that is true not to love is painful too; but there is a greater pain: to love and not be loved again
John Fussle
Love is present always.
Jill Harrison
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
Vincent Van Gogh
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.
Joe McMahon
Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
Nicholas Chamfort
Love is the expression of simplicity in emotion, the unattainable longing that comes so unexpectedly, with great subtlety and bliss.
Luyen Dao
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso
Love is the language our hearts use to speak to one another. For you, my dear, my heart sings.
Amanda R. Byrd
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm
Love is the power that heals the soul and mends hearts.
Jill Harrison
Love is the power which can make you or break you. Every time I close my eyes your love is all around.
Hassaan
love is to sex sex is to sin sins are forgiven so lets begin 3 hours of pleasure 9 months of pain 2 hours in the hospital and a baby to name fathers a bastard mothers a whore none of this would have happened if the rubber wouldn't have tore
L. W.
Love is unconditional. . . Relationships are not.
Grant Gudmundson
Love is what you make it.
Terri
Love is when two people who care for each other get confused.
Bob Schneider
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouih
Love keeps your heart busy.
Wisdom H
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
Love never dies. ("Bram Stroker's Dracula")
Francis Ford Coppola
Love never stops even she is in front of you.
Wisdom H
Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake
Love simply IS.
Jill Harrison
Love those who love you.
Voltaire
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
George Gordon Lord Byron
Love, and do what you like.
Agostino
Love, you are eternal like springtime.
Juan Ramon Jiminez
Love. Need I say more?
Bram Scott Reeves
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
Merle Shain
Lust lasts longer than latinum.
(Deep Space 9) Quark
Man loves little and often: Woman much and rarely.
anonymous
Marriage is not living with the person you love, but living with the person you can't live without.
Aissa Amor A. Sarmiento
May your love soar on the wings of a dove in flight.
Debbie Crabtree
Men are always sincere. They change sincerity, that's all!
Tristan Bernard
Mine ear is enamoured by thy note; So is mine eye enthralled by thy shape; and thy fair virtues force perforce doth move me; to say, to swear, I love thee.
William Shakespeare
My first glance fell on your heart!
Johann F.C. Schiller
My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.
Omar Kyyam
My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.
Ibn Abbad
Night Light Searching in the dark I'm lost with out your touch, The day comes but the sun never shines. It's a dream yet the candle slowly grows small, I need the net of your love to catch me when I fall.
Stephen Rygiel
No guy is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry.
unknown
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.
William Shakespeare
No surprise can produce such a magical effect as being loved.
Charles Morgan
No words are necessary between two loving hearts.
unknown
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
Thomas Moore
No-one is ever betrayed by true love.
Jaufré Rudel
Not loving is but a long dying.
Wu Ti
O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
Thomas Dekker
Once you have loved, You will always love. For what's in your mind may escape, But what's in your heart will remain forever.
Brooke Zuroweste
One can care little for man, but we need a friend.
Chinese proverbs
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again, I wrote it with a second hand; But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she that dost in vain assay, A mortal thing so to immortalize.
Edmund Spenser
One is alone with all the things he loves.
Novalis
One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love.
anonymous
Outside are the storms and strangers: We - Oh, close, safe and warm sleep I and she, I and she . . .
Robert Browning
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden
People are not perfect but LOVE can be so why looking for a perfect lover instead of creating a perfect LOVE
SHE_DJ
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
Stendhal
Pure and complete sorrow is impossible as pure and complete joy.
Leo Tolstoy
Real love is perpetual.
Jill Harrison
Reason and love are sworn enemies.
Corneille
Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.
Shelley Winters
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.
The Bible
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
anonymous
She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
Migeul de Cervantes
She who has never loved, has never lived.
J. Gay
So long as man remains free, he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
anonymous
Soft white petals A fragrance so sweet Blooming in a meadow So pretty, so petite If you listen closely You can hear it sing Though it knows it's dying It looks only to the spring.
R.E. Long
Some people think it's holding on that makes you strong, sometimes it's letting go.
unknown
Sometimes we see things not as they are but as we are: Love brings understanding.
unknown
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away And all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then in silence, I can only hope, my eyes will speak my heart.
unknown
Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
E.E. Cummings
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
unknown
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
The darkness is no darkness with thee. . . (1662, Psalms 139:5)
Prayer Book
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Albert Camus
The Eskimo has fifty two names for snow because it is important to them, there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
The following are only some of the key words that remind me of you; Love, world, life, live, girl, woman, kiss, hugs, marriage, God, forever, etc.
Patrick Rackels
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
unknown
The heart has it's reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
Pascal
The heart has no wrinkles.
M.se de Sevigne
The heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
The Wizard of Oz
The heart was made to be broken.
Oscar Wilde
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see and things the mind cannot understand.
anonymous
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and know what the mind cannot understand.
Robert Valett
The kiss is the King of Hearts and brooks no refusal.
unknown
The kiss, a sweet discovery of oneself after a long search.
anonymous
The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
Thomas Moore
The love of beauty in it's multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Alexis Carrel
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Jeraluddin Rumi
The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.
unknown
The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one, Yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to G-d, this is love.
Victor Hugo
The soul runs in me loves, kiss, hugs, sucks, and squeezes yours.
Gihan Sadik
The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
The speech of someone in love bores everyone except the loved one.
unknown
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G.K. Chesterton
The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.
W.B. Yeats
The words of her mouth were softer than butter, having war in her heart; her words were smoother than oil, and they be very swords. (1662, Psalms 55:22)
Prayer Book
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
D.H. Lawrence
the young fool to love and nurture a dying plant, no matter how much attention you give- that plant will still wilt and eventually die== you will never get back those years you could've lived.
Erica Zollinger
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
unknown
There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.
Menander
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. (1 John 4:18)
The Bible
There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.
A.C. Swinburne
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Charles Morgan
There is nothing like love in this world unless you experience it.
Meenu Baheti
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sands
There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.
A.C. Swinburne
This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Goethe
those who live for love live well
A. Weigh
Though in silence, with blighted affection, I pine, Yet the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine!
George W. Young
Time brings a lot of changes my dear and that is really true but one thing never changes that is my love for you.
Sohail Rana
Time can but make her beauty over again.
W.B. Yeats
Time wounds all heels.
Jane Ace
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George Orwell
To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.
Petrach
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Bess Myerson
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges
To fall in LOVE, is to rise. . . .
Upendra
To fear love is to fear life.
Bertrand Russell
To lose your love is to have lived a thousand lives, and have them end all at once.
Rock
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Les Miserables
To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
To love without expected return on my investment frees me to love with purity of heart, mind and soul...I am not distracted by selfish motive or disappointed by insensitivity.... I am free to love... just love.
L. Hodge
To the world you may be someone, but to someone you may be the world.
anonymous
To the world you may be someone, but to someone you may be the world.
anonymous
True knowledge derives from a suspect or revelation.
Herman Melville
True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they've gotta match.
anonymous
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived. ("The Little Prince")
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Truly love you endlessly. Every day without you is like a book without pages. I love you, I will always do, for the rest of our earthly and heavenly life.
F. Abahusain
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us oft, and worshipp'd be. ("Air and Angels")
John Donne
Two hearts are stronger than three, but only if you instill yours inside of me.
Matthew K. Free
UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE By the time you swear you are his shivering and sighing, And vows his passion is infinite and undying- Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.
Dorothy Parker
Very often melancholy is the memory of a kiss not given.
unknown
Wait for the one you love. Not the one who found you first.
anonymous
War can´t kill love. Love can kill war.
Helene Lagerberg
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other.
Liciano De Crescenzo
We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
Paul Valery
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
Andre Maurois
We do not judge the people we love.
J.P. Satre
We love because it is the only true adventure
anonymous
What an annoying mad thing love is!
Emanuel Schikaneder
What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours. (dedication)
William Shakespeare
What is Love but the Demon inside or is an Angel, with play on his mind? ("First Love")
John A. Zammit
When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.
Arrigo Boito
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.
King Tse
When you are down, only her love can save you.
Wisdom H
When you are in love never stop thinking of someone you love.
Wisdom H
When you are in love, it makes you have a lot of energy.
Wisdom H
When you have a struggle keep thinking of her.
Wisdom H
When you kiss me, without uttering a single word, you speak to my soul.
unknown
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
Elizabeth Cameron
When you love her, everything she does is beautiful.
Wisdom H
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Christopher Marlowe
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Japanese proverbs
Whom we love best, to them we can say least.
English proverbs
Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.
Montaigne
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! were I with thee- Wild Nights would be our luxury-- Futile the winds to a heart in port, Gone with the compass-- Gone with the chart-- Rowing in Eden..Ah the Sea! Might I but moor-- Tonight in thee
Emily Dickinson
Without love, the world itself would not survive.
Lope de Vega
Women the unfathomable, I have loved and been loved.
Ian Pires
Women were made to be loved not to be understood.
Oscar Wilde
You are my love, my life ... my world.
Michelle Lozada
You are the answer to every prayer I've said. I couldn't have made you more perfect if I tried. You have become a thief and stolen my heart. Please don't be a vandal and break it.
Angelina Kristine
You complete me.
Jerry Maguire
You don't get to choose, You just fall.
anonymous
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
unknown
You may forget the face of the beloved, but not his kiss.
unknown
You want to know how great my love is? Count the waves.
unknown
You're not the only one who feels this way.
Ammonia

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