Love Quotes
Top 40 Love Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)
Love your neighbour as yourself.
- Jesus (c4 BC-c30 AD), founder of
Christianity
![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-confucius.jpg)
Confucius 551–479 BC, the Chinese
philosopher, pictured right, put it this way:
Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you.
Muhammad (570-632) founder of the
religion of Islam, also says:
Whoever is not merciful to others will not be treated mercifully
No 2![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-fromm.jpg)
If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself too.
- Erich Fromm, pictured right, Man for
Himself (1947)
![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-jung.jpg)
Carl Jung (1875-1961) the Swiss
psychiatrist, pictured right , agrees:
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself
![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-kierkegaard.jpg)
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55), the
Danish philosopher, pictured right, also tells us:
Above all do not forget your duty to love yourself
No 3![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotesrolle.jpg)
Love cannot be lazy.
- Richard Rolle (c1290-1349), English religious writer, pictured right.
![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-scott-peck.jpg)
So the American psychiatrist, M. Scott
Peck, pictured right, in The Road Less Travelled (1978) says:
Laziness is love’s opposite.
This comes from Scott Peck's belief (also in The Road Less Travelled) that:
Love is as love does
No 4![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-fromm.jpg)
Love is an attitude.
- Erich Fromm (1900–80) American
philosopher and psychologist, pictured right.
No 5![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-gandhi.jpg)
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.,
- Mahatma ( Mohandas)
Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian leader and philosopher, pictured right.
No 6![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-tennyson.jpg)
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all,
(from the 1844 poem In Memoriam A.H.H.)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92), pictured right, English poet.
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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80), the French
philosopher
(pictured right), takes the opposite view:
Hell is other people.
No 7
To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.
- Muhammad (570-632) founder of the
religion of Islam.
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No 8
Money can't buy me love.
- John Lennon
(1940–1980), pictured right, and Paul
McCartney (1942- ), pictured right below.![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-mccartney.jpg)
No 9![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-buddha.jpg)
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.
-Gautama Buddha (563-483 BC) founder of
Buddhism, pictured right.
![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotesjohnpchan31.jpg)
John Paul II (1920-2005), pictured right,
the Polish pope, says something similar:
Hatred can only be conquered by love
No 10![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-fromm.jpg)
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’
-Erich Fromm, pictured right, The Art of
Loving (1956).
No 11![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-frank.jpg)
You can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness.
- Anne Frank (1929-1945), child victim of the
Holocaust, pictured right.
No
12![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind,
(Helena in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream)
- William Shakespeare
(1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.
Shakespeare's other thoughts on love are:
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- Lysander (A Midsummer
Night’s Dream)
Love is blind.
- Jessica (The Merchant of
Venice)
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
- Olivia (Twelfth Night)
If music be the food of love play on.
- Orsino (Twelfth Night)
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an
ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken
- Sonnet 116.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate
- Sonnet 18.
No 13![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-gibran.jpg)
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding
- Kahlil Gibran
(1883-1931), Lebanese-born American philosopher, pictured right.
No 14![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-tolstoy.jpg)
When you love someone, you love the whole person, as they are, and not as you'd like them to be,
(Dolly in the novel Anna Karenina)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer, pictured right, pictured right
No 15![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-bronte-charlotte.jpg)
If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people ... would never
feel afraid, and so they would never alter,
(Jane in the novel Jane Eyre)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816-55),
English writer, pictured right
No 16![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-dickens.jpg)
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done: it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than
I have ever known,
(Sydney Carton on sacrificing his life for his sweetheart in A Tale of Two Cities).
- Charles Dickens (1812–70),
pictured right, English novelist
No 17![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotesrick.jpg)
Here’s looking at you, kid,
- Rick (Humphrey Bogart, pictured right) in the 1942 film Casablanca.
No 18![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-wizard.jpg)
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but how much you are loved by others,
- the Wizard (Frank Morgan, pictured right) in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
No 19![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-king-ml.jpg)
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
- Martin Luther King (1929-68), pictured right,
American civil rights leader.
King also says:
Forgiveness is God’s command.
No 20![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-freud.jpg)
All that matters is love and work.
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian
psychiatrist, pictured right.
No 21![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-wordsworth.jpg)
The best portion of a good man’s life, his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love,
(from the 1798 poem Tintern Abbey)
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850),
English poet, pictured right.
No 22![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-wiesel.jpg)
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel (1928- ), Romanian-born American writer and Auschwitz survivor, pictured
right.
No 23![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-mandela.jpg)
People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more
naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
- Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), South African leader,
pictured right.
No 24![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotesisla2.jpg)
Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?
- Isla (Ingrid Bergman, pictured right) to Rick (Humphrey Bogart), as she hears German gun
fire in Paris, in the 1942 film Casablanca.
No 25![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-teresa.jpg)
Love until it hurts.
- Mother Teresa
(1910-97), Albanian nun, pictured right.
No 26![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-king-ml.jpg)
Unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King (1929-68), American civil
rights leader, pictured right.
No 27![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-dickens.jpg)
Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher,
(from the novel Our Mutual Friend).
- Charles Dickens (1812-70), pictured
right, English writer.
No 28![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-jenny-love-story.jpg)
Love is never having to say you’re sorry,
- Jenny (Ali MacGraw, pictured right ) in the 1970 film, Love Story.
![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotesadler.jpg)
Larry Adler (1914-2001), the American musician
(pictured right), also comments:
Vasectomy means not ever having to say you're sorry.
No 29![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-tolstoy.jpg)
Respect was invented to fill the place where love ought to be,
(Anna in the novel Anna Karenina)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer, pictured right.
No 30![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-joyce.jpg)
Love’s bitter mystery.
(from the 1922 novel Ulysses)
- James Joyce (1882-1941), pictured right, Irish writer.
No 31![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-roosevelt-eleanor.jpg)
Pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
American civil rights campaigner, pictured right
No 32![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-francis.jpg)
It is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
(1182-1226), Italian monk and philosopher, pictured right.
No 33![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotesjohnpchan31.jpg)
Anything done for another is done for oneself.
- John Paul II (1978-2005), pictured right, Polish
pope.
No 34
The love you take is equal to the love you make
(from The Beatles' Abbey Road album)
- John Lennon
(1940–1980), pictured right, and Paul
McCartney (1942- ), pictured right below.
No 35![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-wedgwood.jpg)
Am I not a man and a brother?,
(motto adopted by the Anti-Slavery Society)
- Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95),
pictured right , English pottery manufacturer
No 36![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-buddha.jpg)
The greatest gain is to give to others; the greatest loss is to greedily receive without gratitude.
- Gautama Buddha (563-483 BC), founder
of Buddhism, pictured right
No 37![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-gibran.jpg)
When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931),
Lebanese-born American philosopher, pictured right
No 38![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotesaliass11.jpg)
The devil is in the mind and heart, not the skin.
- Muhammad Ali (1942- ), American boxer, pictured
right
No 39![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotes-seligman.jpg)
Optimism helps love.
- Martin Seligman (1942- ),
American psychologist, pictured right .
No 40![Love Quotes Love Quotes](images/quotesker.jpg)
The road to Auschwitz was built with hate but paved with indifference
- Ian Kershaw, pictured right in his book Hitler, the Germans and the Final Solution
(2008)
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