Top 100 Quotes About Love Itself
#1. But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
Walter Raleigh
#2. There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William Hazlitt
#3. What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.
Charles Baudelaire
#4. It had not had much effect, but that was beside the point. "Love is like a flame; it burns itself out eventually," Sabiha had told Selva. "What will you do then?
Ayse Kulin
#5. I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.
Kellyn Roth
#6. A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.
Gabriel Marcel
#7. He brushed his lips against hers. "I love you," he breathed against her mouth. "And from today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to Hell itself, wherever you are, that's where I want to be. Forever." Celaena
Sarah J. Maas
#8. Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
Thomas Merton
#9. It almost contradicts itself," she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.
Eric Morgenstern
#10. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius
#11. Suffering is primarily a
call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#12. You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself.
Annie Dillard
#14. It dawned on him that the loneliness of marriage, the thing Alice had so feared, starts out of love itself, which can never deliver on its promises.
Josephine Humphreys
#15. Not only does my world revolve around her, but she is my world. She's not just my reason for breathing, she's air itself. She's the meaning behind every one of my thoughts, every thrum of my pulse, every whisper of my conscience. She's my entire everything. It's as simple and as complex as that.
Laurelin Paige
#16. Without love, the world itself would not survive.
Lope De Vega
#17. There is a shortage of hard R. It was the story and the character. He's never played a character like this and so that was the thing that really won him over. The story itself, on the surface - Patrick and I love actors almost in a geeky kind of way.
Todd Farmer
#18. Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.
Peter Rollins
#19. Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.
Peter Lombard
#20. It's not an easy thing to tell the girl that you love more than life itself that you're going to marry someone else.
Mary E. Pearson
#21. Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).
Milan Kundera
#22. Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#23. Love helps us develop an identity secure enough to allow itself to be placed in another's care and protection.
Don DeLillo
#24. The feeling itself is the language your Higher Self listens to.
Raphael Zernoff
#25. While the world has found the right names for all chronic mental diseases, I believe poetry is also a brain dysfunction, yet the only one that owns itself the mastery for the cure. Isn't it lovely to say, "He/She suffers of Poetry?".
Ioana-Cristina Casapu
#26. Just the sound of his name causes my heart to trip over itself. I love the way Ryan makes me feel. I love his words. I love his hands on my body. I love the way his gaze causes me to blush.
Katie McGarry
#27. The heart of man will never find true peace, if it does not empty itself of all that is not God, so as to free itself all free for His love, that He alone may possess the whole of it. But this the soul cannot do of itself; it must obtain it of God by repeated prayers.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#28. Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.
Matthew Underwood
#29. There was only one four-lettered word having precedence over life itself and it was LOVE.
Faraaz Kazi
#30. What exists in this heart is not imaginary. This hand would not grasp air in trying to hold you, nor this eye blind itself in searching for you in vain.
Chrissy Moon
#31. I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan's life is the love he feels for his sister.
Cassandra Clare
#32. Love ... is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself
James Joyce
#33. The death of hope and love is far worse than death itself.
C.J. Anderson
#34. Beautiful irony. Fall in love with yourself. Let your love express itself and the world will beat a path to your door to fall in love with you.
Kamal Ravikant
#35. I love you, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. There is nothing I would not do for you. Nothing I would not consider if it meant keeping you safe. The world itself should fear me if it stands between us.
Renee Ahdieh
#36. Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it.
Bob Goff
#37. The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.
James E. Faust
#38. Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.
Kristin Cashore
#41. Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.
Richard L. Evans
#42. Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.
Erich Fromm
#43. And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned.
Ali Smith
#44. You are infinitely capable. You don't live in the universe. You are the universe. You are the entire universe experiencing itself through the eyes of one human. And thus, you are free to create the reality you choose.
Michael Sanders
#45. I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.
Julia Roberts
#46. A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#47. Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.
Hosea Ballou
#48. The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten.
Jan Morris
#49. It is for you to decide what you will contribute to this world ... Will you contribute to the love that is in the world or the fear? This is the same opportunity that presents itself each moment.
Gary Zukav
#50. The soul knows only to love. While the ego criticizes everything, including the ego itself ...
Akemi G
#51. sweeter than joy itself, for the heart of the laugh was love.
George MacDonald
#52. The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love ...
Mechthild Of Magdeburg
#53. Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
Hermann Hesse
#54. You may know the pain of possessing and dependency, reducing persons to objects, but this is not love. Love doesn't attempt to bind, ensnare, capture. It is light, free of the burden of attachments. Love asks nothing, is fulfilled in itself. When love is there, nothing remains to be done.
Vimala Thakar
#55. And someone's face, whom you love, will be as a star
both intimate and ultimate,
and you will be both heart-shaken and respectful.
And you will hear the air itself, like a beloved, whisper:
oh, let me, for a while longer, enter the two
beautiful bodies of your lungs.
Mary Oliver
#56. When you are really in love, when it's the right guy, it's not this hard. Things fall into place; they work. If it's meant to be, it'll work itself out.
Karyn Bosnak
#57. In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality.
Marguerite Duras
#58. Love is only what you think it is at the time. Or what you make it. It doesn't exist of itself. It's born out of the spark that ignites when two people suddenly notice each other. Or it isn't. I mean, sparks die too, or you kill them deliberately.
Elizabeth Bailey
#59. He sleeps although so much he was denied. He lived and when his dear love left him died. It happened of itself, in the easy way that in the morning night time follows day
Victor Hugo
#60. I wondered if what one normally calls "normal" was itself a sort of dullness, a deadening of sense and spirit, if not, indeed, a very closure of their doors. For myself, now, liberated, released, emergent from the dark night and abyss, there was an intoxication of light and love and health.
Oliver Sacks
#61. An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself.
Nirmala Srivastava
#62. Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.
Hugh Prather
#63. Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#64. There is a part of you that is Love itself, and that is what we must fall into. It is already there. Once you move your identity to that level of deep inner contentment, you will realize you are drawing upon a Life that is much larger than your own and from a deeper abundance.
Richard Rohr
#65. If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.
Lenny Kravitz
#66. Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
Mortimer Adler
#67. Id Faciam
What I hate I love. Ask the crucified hand that holds
the nail that now is driven into itself, why.
Catullus
#68. Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.
Saint Augustine
#69. Love is not an emotion. Love is the essence of the Divine that manifests itself as unconditional acceptance of what is.
Cloris Kylie
#70. We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without. p 167
love always found itself again.
Melody Beattie
#71. The central law of all organic life is that each organism is intrinsically isolate and single in itself. The moment its isolation breaks down, and there comes an actual mixing and confusion, death sets in.
D.H. Lawrence
#72. Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.
Stendhal
#73. It was, perhaps, the amiable character of this man that inclined me more to that branch of natural philosophy which he professed, than an intrinsic love for the science itself.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#74. We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do.
Maya Angelou
#75. Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
Betty Friedan
#76. Cursed, he once cried in a fit of rage. His temper has always been as restless and unpredictable as the sea itself. But his words had power behind them and I felt the effects instantly. Too late to take it back.
Jennifer Silverwood
#77. Love doesn't fail us, it's our expectations that fail us. Lovers sometimes forget that the gift is the call to love itself, and not the result. The quickening, the deepening, the merging, the burning bright in love's cosmic kiln. That's the great gift, no matter where it leads.
Jeff Brown
#78. Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
Victor Hugo
#79. Eternal Trinity ... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being ...
St. Catherine Of Siena
#80. Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.
Thomas M. Disch
#81. Mankind will find strength in itself to live for virtue, even without believing in the immortality of the soul! Find it in the love of liberty, equality, fraternity ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#82. Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves
from the loved one and, trembling, endured:
as the arrow endures the string, collecting itself
to be more than itself as it shoots?
Rainer Maria Rilke
#83. New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.
Joan Didion
#84. Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?
David Levithan
#85. The pain of love does not break hearts, it merely seasons them. The disappointed heart revives itself and grows meaty and piquant. Sorrow expands it and makes it pithy. The spirit, on the other hand, can snap like a bone and may never fully knit
Tom Robbins
#86. Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself
Becoming One with its object; Producing Unity of Being.
Hakim
#87. An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
May Sarton
#88. Someday I hope to Love everyone - including my kids, husband, family, and friends - so very, very much more, and with so much depth, that there is no distinguishing Love from itself.
Kelly Corbet
#89. Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.
Rick Warren
#90. Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work of art in itself, and when it's a great book I feel as a director or a writer that I have a responsibility to rise to the level of the original. It makes me try to reach higher.
James Franco
#91. Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.
Juan Gabriel
#93. Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#94. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving
Kahlil Gibran
#95. Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.
James Richardson
#96. Twilight is the hour I love,' he told her, 'the hour where nothing is quite itself, all things teetering at the edges of their names. Here I can be alone and a stranger to myself.
Keith Miller
#97. In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.
Wesley Morris
#98. If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities ... the expression of love ... then life itself loses its meaning.
Harvey Milk
#99. The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?
Richard Chenevix Trench
