Nice Love Quotes Collection

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel,
 for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts


To love deeply in one direction makes us more
 loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine


Perhaps the feelings that we experience 
when we are in love represent a normal state.
Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)


To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear 
life are already three parts dead.
Bertrzand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage
 and Morals (1929) ch. 19



Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, 
the cornerstone - but not the complete structure.
 It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)



Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; 
this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently 
and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)


The meeting of two personalities is like the 
contact of two chemical substances: if there 
is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)


Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite
 like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie
 Brown in “Peanuts”


To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974


There’s a lot to be said for self-delusionment 
when it comes to matters of the heart.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, 
Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993


Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of
Romania.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So 
Deep as a Well (1937), “Comment”


All love that has not friendship for its base, 
is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004


Love is everything it’s cracked up to be…
It really is worth fighting for, being brave for,
 risking everything for.
Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004


When love
is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.



There is always some madness in love. 
But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), 
On Reading and Writing”


What else is love but understanding and rejoicing
 in the fact that another person lives, acts,
 and experiences otherwise than we do…?
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)



Love is the triumph of imagination over
 intelligence.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)



Sometimes when you look back on a situation, 
you realize it wasn’t all you thought it was. 
A beautiful girl walked into your life. 
You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only 
a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief
 moment of vanity.
Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure,
 The Big Kiss, 1991



There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), 
Journal, July 25, 1839



Just because you love someone doesn’t mean
 you have to be involved with them. 
Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 
February 16, 2004



Passion makes the world go round. Love just
 makes it a safer place.
Ice T, The Ice Opinion



Love is the difficult realization that something other
 than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)



We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), O Magazine,
 February 2004


‘Light fuse and get away’ may work for a 
Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath 
of a woman scorned.
J. Jacques, Questionable Content 
webcomic, #678, 08-02-06


When you have seen as much of life as I have, 
you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K.
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005



But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the 
perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot
 prevent her. Something must and will happen to
 throw a hero in her way.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey


Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs 
of disappointed love.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey


I cannot
think well of a man who sports with any woman’s
 feelings; and there may often be a great deal more
 suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park



I pay very little regard…to what any young person 
says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a 
disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have
 not yet seen the right person.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park



The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond 
the biographer’s.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield
Park



Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)



Age does not protect you from love. But love, 
to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau



Is love supposed to last throughout all time, 
or is it like trains changing at random stops. 
If I loved her, how could I leave her? 
If I felt that way then,
how come I don’t feel anything now?
Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993


True love brings up everything - you're allowing
 a mirror to be held up to you daily.
Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004


Love is the delightful interval between meeting 
a beautiful girl and discovering that 
she looks like a haddock.
John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)



‘Tis the most tender
part of love, each other to forgive.
John Sheffield



Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space,
 there’s not any gravity. You just kind of leave 
your feet and go floating around. Is that what 
being in love is like?
Josh Brand and John Falsey, Northern
 Exposure, The Pilot, 1990


How we treasure (and admire) the people who 
acknowledge us!
Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly 
Yours, January 2004



To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when

 you’ll be so close as to be living inside

 each other’s skins.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999


When you give each other everything, it becomes

 an even trade. Each wins all.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999


Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
Lynda Barry


Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004


To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, 

without expecting anything in return. To just give. 

That takes courage, because we don’t want

 to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004


Love is the big booming beat which covers up 

the noise of hate.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04


Think about a woman. Doesn’t know you’re 

thinking about her. Doesn’t care you’re thinking

 about her. Makes you think about her even more.
Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure,

 The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991


Love is a snowmobile racing across the
tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you

 underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening (1954 - ), “Life in Hell”


Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
Michael Masser and Linda Creed


Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
National Lampoon, “Deteriorata”


The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965), O
Magazine, February 2004


Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look

 which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)


Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. 

But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon


For one human being to love another; that is 

perhaps the most difficult of all our
tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, 

the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)


He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, 

sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved,

 drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those 

virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 

Address on The Method of Nature, 1841


Could you imagine how horrible things would be

 if we always told others how we felt? Life would 

be intolerably bearable.
Randy K. Milholland,
Something Positive Comic, 12-09-05


I believe love is primarily a choice and only 

sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, 

choose to love and be patient.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com 

Weblog, December 16, 2002


I don’t think anyone can DO anything that 

would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift 

and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com

 Weblog, January 20, 2003



You can’t love anyone until you understand

 that you can’t love everyone.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com 

Weblog, October 20, 2003


Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen

 in love, though I’d stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)


One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: 

That word is love.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)


Some relationships start with fights… But, 

usually only in romantic comedies. Life’s

 not the movies.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro

 Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005


Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
Toni Morrison (1931 - ), Beloved


Love isn’t a decision. It’s a feeling. If we

 could decide who we loved, it would be much 

simpler, but much less magical.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, 

South Park, Chef Aid, 1998



Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced 

we are loved.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862


A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does 

her…but she can never forgive him for 

the sacrifices he
makes on her account.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 

The Moon and Sixpence


The important thing was to love rather 

than to be loved.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), ‘Of 

Human Bondage’, 1915



There’s always one who loves and one who 

lets himself be loved.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), ‘Of

 Human Bondage’, 1915


Never marry but for love; but see that thou

 lovest what is lovely.
William Penn (1644 - 1718)


But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 

The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6


Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet cxvi


Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), “All’s 

Well That Ends Well”, Act 1 Scene 1