Love Quotations
for Valentine's Day
Part 2 - Authors N-Z
Compiled
by Michelle Jones
"There is always some
madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
Friedrich Nietzshe
"The only abnormality is
the incapacity to love."
Anais Nin
"You carry away with you a
reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You
will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared,
at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage."
Anais Nin (from Henry and June)
"The heart has its reasons
which reason knows not of."
Pascal
"We conceal it from
ourselves in vain--we must always love something. In those matters seemingly
removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly
live for a moment without it."
Pascal
"Love, free as air at
sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies."
Alexander Pope
"Those who love deeply
never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."
A. W. Pinero
"At the touch of love
everyone becomes a poet."
Plato
"He whom love touches not
walks in darkness."
Plato
"We all suffer from the
preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection."
Sidney Poitier
"The entire sum of
existence is the magic of being needed by just one person."
Vi Putnam
"The hearts that love will
know never winter's frost and chill. Summer's warmth is in them still."
Eben Eugene Rexford
"There is no disguise
which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does
not."
La Rochefoucauld
"A kiss is a rosy dot
placed on the "i" in loving."
Edmond Rostand
"To fear love is to fear
life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
Bertrand Russell
"Even when I glimpse you
for a moment, my tongue is stilled as speech deserts me, while a delicate fire
is beneath my skin."
Sappho
"I have said nothing
because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly
as you deserve it."
Kyle Schmidt
"Love means never having
to say you're sorry."
Erich Segal
"Love is a force that
connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that
characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if
only we can open ourselves to it."
Emily H. Sell
"My bounty is as boundless
as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both
are infinite."
William Shakespeare
"Love is not love Which
alters when it alteration finds."
William Shakespeare
"The course of true love
never did run smooth."
William Shakespeare
"Love is a spirit of all
compact of fire."
William Shakespeare
"Love looks not with the
eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
William Shakespeare
"Love sought is good, but
given unsought, is better."
William Shakespeare
"Nothing in the world is
single; All things by law divine In one spirit mix and mingle. Why not I with
thine?"
Percy Shelley
"The main source of good
discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in
return."
Dr. Benjamin Spock
"We cease loving ourselves
if no one loves us."
Madame De Stael
"A very small degree of
hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
Stendhal
"To fall in love is easy,
even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But
it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence
one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
Anna Louise Strong
"When the satisfaction or
the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own
satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists."
Henry Stack Sullivan
"Tis better to have loved
and lost,
Than never to have loved at all."
Lord Tennyson
"If you judge people, you
have no time to love them."
Mother Theresa
"Let us always greet each
other with a smile for the smile is the beginning of love."
Mother Theresa
"Between whom there is
hearty truth, there is love."
Henry David Thoreau
"Love must be as much a
light, as it is a flame."
Henry David Thoreau
"There is no remedy for
love but to love more."
Henry David Thoreau
"The first duty of love is
to listen."
Paul Tillich
"If so many men, so many
minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love."
Leo Tolstoy
"Love is an act of endless
forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
Peter Ustinov
"Nunc scio quit sit amor."
Lat., "Now I know what love is."
Virgil
"Love has features which
pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those
beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same."
Voltaire
"May they who love you be
like the sun when it rises in its strength."
Judges 5:31
"Let him kiss me with the
kisses of his mouth - for his love is more delightful then wine."
Song of Songs 1:2
"How beautiful you are, my
darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves."
Song of Songs 1:15
"Many waters cannot quench
love, neither can floods drown it."
Song of Songs 8:7
"For God so loved the
world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not
perish but have eternal life."
John 3:16
"Let us love, not in word
or speech, but in truth and action."
John 3:18
"The entire law is summed
up in a single command, "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Galations 5:14
"We love because He first
loved us."
1 John 4:19
"Love is patient, love is
kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no
records of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves.
Love never fails..."
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Quote Sources
toinspire.com
quoteland.com
cybernation.com
The Holy Bible