Top 100 Quotes About Human Love
#1. The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
Albert Camus
#3. I have always painted pictures where human love floods my colors.
Marc Chagall
#4. Soon after you're dead - we're not sure how long - but not long, you'll be united with the most ecstatic love you've ever known. As one of the best things in your life was human love, this will be love, but much more satisfying, and it will last forever.
Basil Hume
#5. Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.
Lester Levenson
#6. All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
William Ralph Inge
#7. And clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
Louisa May Alcott
#8. I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong
Desmond Tutu
#9. Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.
William John Locke
#10. Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.
Manis Friedman
#11. Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
Boethius
#12. What Richard Selzer, M.D. once wrote of surgery is true of therapy: only human love keeps this from being the act of two madmen.
Thomas Lewis
#13. If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
Andrew Solomon
#14. Have you ever experienced human love?"
"Yes. Once."
Regret shadowed his face. "Then why would you be willing to repeat it?"
"What we learn is worth more than what we lose.
Elizabeth Langston
#15. The supreme state of human love is ... the unity of one soul in two bodies.
Sri Aurobindo
#16. Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.
Magnus Hirschfeld
#17. The deepness of human love and dignity will define the tolerance of humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#18. I did not want His cold love. I wanted human love - clasping, selfish, and hot. I wanted to smell the rank sweat of the men ... I wanted love - reeking, drunken, hungry love.
Jennifer Donnelly
#19. Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
Anais Nin
#20. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
E. M. Forster
#21. The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises.
Saint Francis De Sales
#22. It's all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isn't conditional. No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it's just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.
Donald Miller
#23. The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.
Bruce D. Perry
#24. And human love needs human meriting:
How has thou merited-
Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest clot?
Alack, thou knowest not
How little worthy of any love thou art!
Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?
Francis G. Thompson
#25. Is human love the growth of the human will ?
Ellen Key
#26. I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.
Marc Chagall
#27. Human Love in the Divine Plan. God's designs for the person, the designs of divine love for human love - this is the reality the theology of the body attempts to unfold on the basis of the teaching of Jesus.
Pope John Paul II
#28. She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
E. M. Forster
#29. But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
Margaret Fuller
#30. And it seemed to him then that every human was always looking for himself, in bars, in railway trains, in offices, in mirrors, in love, especially in love, for the self of him that is there, someplace, in every other human. Love was not to give oneself, but find oneself, describe oneself.
James Jones
#31. In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.
Cormac McCarthy
#32. Maybe nothing could extinguish the yearning of human love; maybe it travelled on for ever, through the darkness. Like the light from dead stars.
S.K. Tremayne
#33. One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.
Simone Weil
#34. Human love is created with some capacity, however distorted, to love God and to love creatures through God.
Thomas C. Oden
#35. They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding and accord. This highest moment would now remain as point of comparison to torment them later on when all natural imperfections would disintegrate it.
Anais Nin
#36. The true signature and perhaps even the miracle of human love is helplessness, and all the more miraculous because it is a helplessness which we wittingly or unwittingly choose; in our love of a child, a partner, a work, or a road we have to take against the odds.
David Whyte
#37. What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.
Sri Chinmoy
#38. There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.
John Welwood
#39. To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.
John Muir
#40. I think it's a mighty act of human love to remind somebody that they can accomplish things by themselves, and that the world does not automatically owe them any reward, and that they are not as weak and hobbled as they may believe.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#41. No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#42. Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.
Robin Hobb
#43. Love of the limited self, the very limited self, is another name for human love. Love of the entire world is another name for divine love.
Sri Chinmoy
#44. It is essential that true joys be experienced, that the sunrise not leave us unmoved, for civilization depends on the true joys, all those that have nothing to do with money or affluence - nature, the arts, human love.
May Sarton
#45. But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
Jane Goodall
#46. In the minds of most people, Christianity is supposed to be about love of God and neighbor (even though it is true that at the heart of Christianity does not lie human love at all, but God's love for humanity24
Miroslav Volf
#47. For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild;
Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our Sacrifice of grateful praise.
Folliott Sandford Pierpoint
#48. grasp God's love not by likeness to human love, but in contrast to it.
Sheridan Voysey
#49. No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.
Paulo Coelho
#50. Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.
Edgar Allan Poe
#51. Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
Leo Tolstoy
#52. The words of human love have been used by the saints to describe their vision of God, and so I suppose we might use the terms of prayer, meditation, contemplation to explain the intensity of the love we feel for a woman ...
Graham Greene
#53. Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
#54. By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
Sigmund Freud
#55. Human love is to devote a part of ourselves to the providence of another existence. To be without this devotion is to be void of love.
Michael Hollingworth
#56. You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
Leo Tolstoy
#57. The only constant thing in these shifting, fairy-chess worlds is human love.
Robert A. Heinlein
#58. My child, human love is an infinite resource. No matter how many times it is expended, whether stolen or given away, love can grow again - like a flower from a bulb - and fill your heart.
Brian Herbert
#59. The seris thought of human love as clouds coming together, sometimes brushing one to another, sometimes building to a storm, sometimes lost one in the other - casting one shadow.
Mark Lawrence
#60. When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.
Leo Tolstoy
#61. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
E. M. Forster
#62. All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God's is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.
Cormac McCarthy
#63. Human love is emotional. Feelings dominate a human's love landscape. We feel as though we're in love, or we don't feel as though we're in love. Hormones, sleeplessness, wory, past hurts, Mexican food
all complicate these emotions.
Max Lucado
#64. There is an end of human life but there is no end of human love for humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#65. It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement ... The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love.
Grantly Dick-Read
#66. Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Sarada Devi
#67. The story ends. It was written for several reasons. Nine of them are secrets. The tenth is that one should never cease considering human love, which remains as grisly and golden as ever, no matter what is tattooed upon the warm tympanic page.
Donald Barthelme
#68. Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#69. There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways.
Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.
Pope John Paul II
#70. The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!
Aleister Crowley
#71. 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
#72. If human love hath power to penetrate the veil
and hath it not?
then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#74. Perhaps our loneliness can never be filled with even the best of human love. Maybe the longing for human love is just the beginning, and the longing for God is always the end.
Susan E. Isaacs
#75. Human love wants to possess and be possessed by the world. Divine love wants to establish its inseparable oneness with the world and then it wants to divinely enjoy this oneness. Supreme Love transforms human love into divine love and blesses divine love with boundless joy and divine pride.
Sri Chinmoy
#76. Is it not also a paradox that in our efforts to escape pain we all run immediately for salvation to human love where we find the greatest pain of all?
James Jones
#77. If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#78. The New Testament views the church
rather than marriage
as the primary place where human love is best expressed and experienced.
Wesley Hill
#79. There is no love.
There's only love of men and women, love
Of children, love of friends, of men, of God:
Divine love, human love, parental love,
Roughly discriminated for the rough.
Robert Frost
#80. The candle glimmers but an hour. The night
Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know
The tragedy of human love and need?
Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!
George Sterling
#81. And even now I experience that blessed feeling. To love one's neighbors, to love one's enemies. Always to love
to love God in all His Manifestations. To love one's friends is human love, but to love one's enemies is divine.
Leo Tolstoy
#82. Human love, now even more than then, is widely tasked with achieving what once only divine love was thought capable of: to be our ultimate source of meaning and happiness, and of power over suffering and disappointment.
Simon May
#83. What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Robert Graves
#84. He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#85. It is something to remember, if we feel distant from humans," Catarina said. "We owe a great deal to human love. We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away. I know which side of my heritage my soul comes from.
Cassandra Clare
#86. I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect love, a human love. In this time of uncertainty, can I continue to love, even if it breaks my heart?
Velcrow Ripper
#87. 'Many waters cannot quench love' was said of divine, not human, love, which the Dean knew was not always tough enough to survive the indifference of misery. That was one of the chief reasons why he struggled to do away with misery.
Elizabeth Goudge
#88. Human love didn't eradicate God, but it put Him into His proper distant second place.
Glen Duncan
#89. Love gives you the strength to face an army, vampire or human ... Love gives you a reason to press on through the storm. Love helps you think clearly and follow the clues ahead, if you know where they lead.
J.X. Burros
#90. Dancing may not be the perfect substitute for love, human love, but it certainly requires all the time and thought and energy that could otherwise be dedicated to love.
Toni Bentley
#91. And now 'tis man who dares assault the sky ... And as we come to claim our promised place, Aim only to replay the good you gave, And warm with human love the chill of space.
Thomas Goddard Bergin
#92. We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.
Cassandra Clare
#93. Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.
Wladyslaw Szpilman
#94. If we lean on a human love story as our primary source of fulfillment and happiness, well never find what we are looking for. But when we find our fulfillment in Jesus Christ, we are free to selflessly love our spouse instead of constantly thinking about our own needs and wants
Eric & Leslie Ludy
#96. It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
Leo Buscaglia
#97. If patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.
Helen Fisher
#98. When dogs and humans make eye contact, that actually releases what's known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the dog and the human.
Brian Hare
#99. My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.
Michael Loceff
#100. She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.
David Anthony Durham
