Top 100 Love Is Not Quotes
#1. Love is not always fireworks and magic. Often we'll experience it in the form of patience, acceptance, loyalty, and mutual respect.
Charles F. Glassman
#2. Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.
Ajahn Brahm
#3. Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
St. Jerome
#4. Falling in love is not rational. It's madness. A beautiful, wonderful moment of magnificent insanity.
Michael Faudet
#5. One only realizes the extent of his love when he thinks he has lost the one he loves; and unhappily, very often only begins to love when he feels his love is not returned.
Waguih Ghali
#6. Love is not the middle ear from which the voice resounds, but rather the voice itself; in our bodies a body of emanations.
Candice Favilla
#7. Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.
Ivan Panin
#8. Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.
Martin Luther
#9. When you are young, feelings are your truth. Love is how you feel. The years have taught me that love is not an emotion that you feel about someone, but what you do for them.
Kate Kerrigan
#10. It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.
Cassandra Clare
#12. Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.
Nhat Hanh
#13. It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.
Thomas Moore
#14. Love is not the absence of logic
but logic examined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit
inside the contours of the heart
Tammara Webber
#16. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell
Christopher Moore
#17. Love is not cold and what is cold is not love.
Marty Rubin
#19. Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
Albert Einstein
#20. As Anthony Thiselton puts it, The opposite of love is not correction but indifference.
Alexander Strauch
#21. To act upon something so basic as love is not selfish. Everybody has the right to love whomever he happens to love.
Scylar Tyberius
#22. Love is not dependent on someone or something outside of you. One chooses to be Love in each moment as the moment unfolds, regardless of what happened in that moment.
Cardwell C. Nuckols
#23. True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.
M. Scott Peck
#24. Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
Thomas Merton
#25. When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.
David Levithan
#27. If one would praise the Almighty, one must then revel in His works, and take them whole, adore their very grossness, savor the oozing quiddity of that slime of which He seems to be inordinately fond. Love is not nice. God's love assuredly is not; and human love, its copy, must not presume to be so.
Eric Frank Russell
#28. Love is not about the perfect ingredients in a person.
It is actually about the person
Subhasis Das
#29. There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.
Flora Lewis
#30. Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle
#31. Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding.
Bette Davis
#32. Love is not of value when this superficial contract must be drawn up, representing the two worlds that enclose us.
Coco J. Ginger
#33. Falling in love is not a crime but child abduction is
Ian Lomax
#34. Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
Henri Bergson
#35. As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#36. True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.
Martin Luther
#37. But I was wrong to weep and beg and try to force you by your love. Love is not a thing to be so used.
C.S. Lewis
#38. Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.
Marcel Proust
#39. Love is not temporary. It endures everything even if it changes form. Even when it must be put away to handle harsher things, it's always there, ready to be called.
Joey W. Hill
#40. Love is not a doing but a state of being - a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her or him that simply flows within me and through me, independent of my intentions or my efforts.
Robert A. Johnson
#41. Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.
Pope Benedict XVI
#42. Love is not blind; love is the holy vision.
Ann Voskamp
#43. Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.
Phillip C. McGraw
#44. Love is not words. Love is feeling and love is doing.
River Savage
#45. The loved one suffers. All loved ones suffer. Love is not enough to prevent this. Love is not enough. Love is enough. The thing that you wished for. Was this it?
Here endeth the lesson.
Kelly Link
#46. The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!
Amish Tripathi
#47. Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.
W. Somerset Maugham
#48. For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.
Julia Butterfly Hill
#50. I was never fond of this boyfriend-girlfriend game. Outsmart me, make me feel challenged and I can walk with you forever but to act like love smitten puppies in love is not my thing.
Parul Wadhwa
#51. Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.
Frederick Lenz
#52. A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness.
Paulo Coelho
#53. Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but about how much you prove that it's true." - Unknown
Zane
#54. Love is not only the expression of emotion or the expression of sentiment, it is a real thing. It is the absolute reality, which influences all creation.
Debasish Mridha
#55. Love is beyond reason. Love is not measurable in words. Love cannot be partial; it cannot have owners. Love is essentially beyond definition or concept.
Mabel Iam
#56. Love is not, anywhere, taken seriously. It's not respected. It's the one thing in the world everyone wants, but for some reason people are obliged to pretend that love is trifling and foolish.
Carol Shields
#57. Love is not a profession
genteel or otherwise
sex is not dentistry
the slick filling of aches and cavities
you are not my doctor
you are not my cure,
nobody has that
power, you are merely a fellow/traveler.
Margaret Atwood
#58. According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.
Plato
#59. Self-respect, self-preservation, both of these things. And because you being willing to put up with my love is not good enough. Not even remotely. I'm not going to be your regular live-in fuck buddy, Jimmy, exclusive or not. Your whole offer is soul destroying.
Kylie Scott
#60. Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy ...
Leo Buscaglia
#61. Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.
Joyce Brothers
#63. And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.
Junot Diaz
#64. Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#66. Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds
M.F. Moonzajer
#67. Love is not rooted in your spouse. Love is rooted in yourself.
Cloris Kylie
#68. God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.
Alexander MacLaren
#69. Our love is not perfect. We are fucked-up and bleeding, but neither one of us is powerful enough to walk away from it like we should.
Mary Elizabeth
#71. Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them - we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.
Brene Brown
#72. Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst Of the frailties and shortcomings of the person.
Andras Angyal
#73. Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.
Eugene H. Peterson
#74. Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial - which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#75. Love is not like choosing a partner for whist. It has a life of its own. our duty is merely to follow its call.
Dominic Smith
#76. Love is not a promissory note.
Todd May
#77. Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.
Cecily White
#78. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm
#79. To love is not to celebrate one's own reflection in the face of one's double, but to recognize the value of what one can never know.
Sylvain Tesson
#80. Love is not materialistic. It's intangible yet somehow an undeniable feeling. You know it when you have it. I have lots of love in my life and I am blessed.
Melanie Iglesias
#81. Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
G.K. Chesterton
#83. For what is better than love? Imagine a world without the sun, a world without the smile of a baby or the flight of a butterfly, all of which are manifestations of love. A world without love is not a world worth having
Alexandra McBrayer
#84. It's not equality that counts, it's reprocity that counts. Love is not like a balance sheet. There's no such thing as double-entry accounting when it comes to love.
Debra Ollivier
#85. Love can flow like the river, fly with the bird, sing with the crickets at night. It is in the energy of the river, the flight of the bird, the song from the cricket. There is nowhere where love is not.
Janet G. Nestor
#86. Love is not a possession to hoard. You give it away. It's a blessing and a balm.
Winston Graham
#87. Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.
Robert Breault
#88. Love is not what you fear, is it? You fear the loss of it.
Malinda Lo
#89. love is not love if it's not requited, right?
Nicola Yoon
#90. Love is not a sentimental attachment to a human being; love is a mode of conduct that comes from the heart.
Ma Jaya
#91. A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#93. Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love are the simple acts of kindness and caring we extend to those we meet along the path of life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#94. Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
Pablo Neruda
#95. Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.
Gary Zukav
#96. Love is faithful, love is kind, love is patient. Love is not - I wasn't thinking.
Tarryn Fisher
#97. Sometimes love is not enough, and it doesn't matter how much you want it. Want him. And even if nobody else compares to that person, it doesn't mean that you're supposed to be with him.
Jessica Park
#98. Self-love is not only necessary and good, it is a prerequisite for loving others.
Rollo May
