Top 79 Sentiment Love Quotes
#1. In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment=love of the intellect; I can answer: passion=the love of the body.
Berthe Morisot
#2. Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.
Martyn
#3. I would like to show you how to love as I love; and this sentiment alone would raise you above your kind. But human pride aspires to other enjoyments; its natural disquiet prevents it from laying hold of any happiness if it cannot envisage a greater one in the offing.
Jacques Cazotte
#4. No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.
Elinor Glyn
#5. There is a sentiment common among most of us when it comes to love - letting go can feel scary.
Sharon Salzberg
#6. L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.
Honore De Balzac
#7. And I'm platonically in love with you."
"That was literally the boy-girl version of 'no homo', but I appreciate the sentiment.
Alice Oseman
#9. A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#10. Our love had been liking; our feelings had been ordinary, not Shakespearean. I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. I
Rachel Cohn
#11. He would have recoiled still more had he been aware that her attachment rose unsolicited, and was bestowed where it awakened no reciprocation of sentiment; for the minute he discovered its existence, he laid the blame on Heathcliff's deliberate designing.
Emily Bronte
#12. Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
Lord Chesterfield
#13. We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it gives us a peculiar sympathy with the writer who resembles us.
David Hume
#14. 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
#15. Some sentiment other than love united these two beings, and inspired with mutual anxiety their movements and their thoughts. Misery is, perhaps, the most powerful of all ties.
Honore De Balzac
#16. Perhaps love is a sentiment shared by other species in the universe. But the love that a human being can generate is exclusively his own and will die with him. After that, the universe, perhpas despite its unfathomable vastness, its apparent infinity, will no longer be complete.
Felix J. Palma
#18. I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.
Trevor McDonald
#19. Religion is not a book, it is a neurological sentiment.
Abhijit Naskar
#20. Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
Robert Barron
#21. I squeezed her in return, wishing I could share his sentiment, but I couldn't. Quinn wasn't the love of my life, at least not this life.
Jewel E. Ann
#22. Love is not an honorable sentiment
Colette
#23. Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not ... Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!
Raheel Farooq
#24. What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
Eddie Albert
#25. The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.
Thomas Malthus
#26. Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is ... there is no conclusion yet.
Osamu Tezuka
#27. A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
Walter Scott
#28. In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart.
Vincent Van Gogh
#30. Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.
Mason Cooley
#31. Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their empire, and secure command to that sex which ought to obey.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#32. Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor ... ? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#33. Love is not a sentiment or an emotion. It's the fact that we're all the same being in different disguises.
Deepak Chopra
#34. A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
Giuseppe Mazzini
#35. I hate you," I say, the sentiment muffled against his heart, hoping to make it true.
"And I love you," he answers without hesitation, voice resolved and raw as he holds me tighter so I can't break away and react. "A crossroads, my beautiful princess, that was unavoidable - given our situations.
A.G. Howard
#36. I have found that people never love the way they say they do. They can't. They are just people. Full of lies and sentiment and fear.
Laura Ruby
#37. Reserve delicacy of sentiment for friendship; accept love for what it is.... The more dignity you give it, the more dangerous you make it.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#38. Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.
John O'Callaghan
#39. Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.
Carter Heyward
#40. The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
William Godwin
#41. Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
Honore De Balzac
#42. Loving ourselves is not some frothy sentiment. Nor is it an egotistical self-centerdness. It is obedience, obedience to the commandments of God that have to do with self.
J. Grant Howard
#43. But the love of offspring ... tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#44. As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#45. Then she told me about a philosopher who said that observation is at its core an expression of love which doesn't get caught up in sentiment.
Takashi Hiraide
#46. People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.
Hjalmar Soderberg
#47. We can understand the sentiment you're saying to us
Oh,
But sensible sells so could you kindly shut up
And get started
At keeping your part of the bargain aw please
Little darlin'
You're killing me sweetly with love love love love
Love love love love
Sara Bareilles
#48. Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.
Oscar Hammerstein II
#49. I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love ... even though nothing truly merits the love of any soul, if, out of sentiment, we must give it, I might as well lavish it on the smallness of an inkwell as on the grand indifference of the stars.
Fernando Pessoa
#50. By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.
Errico Malatesta
#51. One part of love is innocence, One part of love is guilt, One part the milk, that in a sense Is soured as soon as spilt, One part of love is sentiment, One part of love is lust, One part is the presentiment Of our return to dust. Eight lines, and it was all over;
Clive Barker
#52. I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.
Charlotte Bronte
#53. I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
Anthony Trollope
#54. I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.
Jane Austen
#55. He will love this music to death. In a few more years, he'll snort at its sentiment and mock its stirring progressions. Once you've loved like that, the only safe haven is resentment.
Richard Powers
#56. Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.
James Hillman
#57. Love is not a mere sentiment but an instrument of ability.
Debasish Mridha
#58. We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.
Swami Vivekananda
#59. Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.
Frederick Douglass
#60. The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.
Deepak Chopra
#62. Respect elders; protect children. This I do believe. As a young man it is sometimes, in a charitable sense, difficult to shake the sentiment that every elderly person is my grandparent, and every child is my child.
Criss Jami
#63. Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore
#64. Richard, marked for misery and defeat, acknowledged that power which sentiment possesses to exalt us - to convince us that our minds, endowed with a soaring, restless aspiration, can find no repose on earth except in love.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#65. What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
Ivan Turgenev
#66. If a war-like situation persists, public sentiment will be with the government of the day. It always happens. People who would love to pull down the government's pants suddenly become patriotic!' said
Ashwin Sanghi
#67. Hold! I must have lost it," said the young man maliciously, pretending to search for it. "But fortunately the world is a sepulcher; the men, and consequently the women, are but shadows, and love is a sentiment to which you cry, 'Fie! Fie!
Alexandre Dumas
#68. I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
Louisa May Alcott
#69. Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. I've always jumped on sentiment - and here I am being more sentimental than anybody. What idiots girls are! I've always thought so. I suppose I shall sleep with his photograph under my pillow, and dream about him all night. It's dreadful to feel you've been false to your principles.
Agatha Christie
#71. English fondness for France is normally a sort of neutron love: take away the people and leave the buildings standing.
Anthony Lane
#72. Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again - words, sweet words. Nothing but words. How many words existed for this simple, wild, cruel attraction of two bodies! What a rainbow of imagination, lies, sentiment, and self-deception enclosed it!
Erich Maria Remarque
#73. We will paste upon the curled pages words
Like charming and romantic and sentimental
Forgetting that charming is witchcraft
Romantic is love
And sentiment is what makes us human
Emilie Autumn
#74. The kiss demanded nothing. It was merely a sentiment of love and devotion from one man to another. Zane's
Abigail Roux
#75. Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.
Thomas Merton
#76. The act of lust and the act of love are the same; it cannot be falsified like a sentiment.
Graham Greene
#78. How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?
Barack Obama
#79. Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.
Alfred Day Hershey
