151 quotes about Love

Love is the axis and breath of my life.

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Love is the only gold.

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.