Top 100 When Love Quotes
#1. Yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.
Herman Melville
#3. When we look to the unborn child, the real issue is not when life begins, but when love begins.
George W. Bush
#4. When love is part of a game, it means nothing. When love is love, it means everything.
Kate McGahan
#5. love will come
and when love comes
love will hold you
love will call your name
and you will melt
sometimes though
love will hurt you but
love will never mean to
love will play no games
cause love knows life
has been hard enough already
Rupi Kaur
#6. I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over. Sometimes these desert lines are simply the only way to the next oasis, which is far more lush and beautiful after the desert crossing than it could possibly have been without it.
Madeleine L'Engle
#7. When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. It's very taking is giving.
Mikhail Naimy
#8. When love is your power, then you will not have anything to fear.
Debasish Mridha
#9. While love lasts it should be relished, gobbled up like ice cream, explored as the conquistadors explored the unknown continent. But when love evaporates, when love hurts, we must learn to let go of the idea that love is forever.
Chloe Thurlow
#10. I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
Agnes Smedley
#11. Love was to blame for this. Because when love ends, the cold is what you're left with.
It was all I needed to feel.
David Levithan
#12. All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in to your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow. Possibility is the secret heart of time.
John O'Donohue
#13. All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
Paulo Coelho
#14. There was a time when love was the law.
There was a time for the tooth and the claw,
Last rites given, no holds barred.
Heaven express on my credit card.
Jethro Tull
#15. When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.
Fanny Brice
#17. When does one think of God? It is when he gains something from Him, when love for Him arises!
Dada Bhagwan
#19. What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it
Thomas Carlyle
#20. Your eyes need to be opened wider than your heart, when love is blinder than your eyes.
Munia Khan
#21. True love and prayer are learned in the hour when love becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.
Jack Kornfield
#22. People say when something stops growing, it dies; I don't think it's the same with love. Even when love stops growing because there's nothing to nurtures it, it doesn't die; it just stays somewhere in a limbo.
Tayo Emmanuel
#24. What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Marge Piercy
#25. When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
Timothy Keller
#26. You wait up for me I don't wake up for you. Would you like the company or are you sick of me. When your love lets you go you only want love more. Even when love wasn't what you were looking for
Speak slow, tell me love where do we go.
Tegan Quin
#27. LOVE should be the inspiration when Lover is the Surprise, and when LOVE is the Surprise , then Loved one must be the inspiration!
Madan Mohan Mahapatra
#28. when love is eclipsed by power, the somber hues of shame darken life
Leon Wurmser
#29. God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throve
Falls off, and love is left alone.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#30. Again, we run out after love, until when love has run out again.
Anthony Liccione
#31. When love chooses, it chooses with a perfect sensitivity for the unique beauty of the chosen one, and it chooses without making anyone else feel excluded.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#32. When love wins, then it wins in fact only through love. But those who love cannot guarantee the victory of love. One can believe in the victory of love only in the sense that one believes in the identity of God and love.
Eberhard Jungel
#33. It happens just because we need
to want and to be wanted too,
when love is here or gone
to lie down in the darkness
and listen to the warm.
Rod McKuen
#34. Life ended, a soul to save," Grace said mournfully. "Decisions age-old are made. Is it choice? Is it fate? Forgiveness or hate? When love is what all of us crave.
Kim Harrison
#35. You've got to learn to leave the table
When love's no longer being served.
Nina Simone
#36. I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.
Khalil Gibran
#38. Don't resist! Open the door when love comes knocking.
Marty Rubin
#39. It's difficult to know when love blooms; suddenly one day you wake up and it's in full flower. It works the same way when it wilts - one day it is just too late.
Fredrik Backman
#40. The day when love is stronger than fear is the day we'll begin to discover our true power.
April White
#41. Nowhere is where there is no love, where there is no hope, where it is cold, where it is meaningless, where it is dark and frightening, painful and hurting! When love shines, nowhere disappears; where love is alive, nowhere is dead!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. Life's too short to say no when love shows up at your door.
Roxanne Snopek
#44. Never change when love has found its home.
Propertius
#46. And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
William Shakespeare
#47. Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.
Lewis Mumford
#48. i am learning that when love wants to stay it will stay.
i am learning that when love wants to go it will go.
AVA.
#49. When love begins my heart is like rich sky that wears stars
Julien Angelov
#50. The Wine of Love
The wine of Love is music,
And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
Love sits long:
Sits long and ariseth drunken,
But not with the feast and the wine;
He reeleth with his own heart,
That great rich Vine.
James Thomson
#51. Welladay! Welladay!
For the winds of May!
Love is unhappy when love is away!
James Joyce
#52. Stale words, what are they worth?
A moment comes and God help those for whom it never comes.
When love of such nobility possesses this shaking frame
That even the sweetest word, the ultimate honey, stings like vinegar.
Edmond Rostand
#54. Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.
M.C. Beaton
#55. He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
Alain De Botton
#56. Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.
Kellie Elmore
#57. When love dies and a marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past. Too inconvenient, too damning of the present. It's the spectre of old happiness at the feast of failure and desolation.
Ian McEwan
#58. Love has no charm
when Love is swept to earth:
you'd make a lop-winged god,
frozen and contrite,
of god up-darting,
winged for passionate flight.
Hilda Doolittle
#59. You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. As for women, this sort of reciprocal deceit cancels itself out, for when love enters in, both parties are usually dupes
Giacomo Casanova
#60. A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
Doris Lessing
#61. Be true to Love.
Do not betray Her.
Then, on the day
that the forest of the mind
bursts into flames,
you will not run.
You will remain silent and still;
for this is when Love bears
Her sweetest fruit:
untouched Presence.
Mooji
#62. Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here, within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love is flowing, magic happens.
Katrina Kenison
#63. But who ever heeds the voice of reason when love whispers, softly persuasive, in the other ear?
Michael Cox
#65. A wonderful relationship can thrive and grow splendidly, when love is deeply rooted in your heart.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#66. Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover.
Countee Cullen
#67. From what I've seen, love isn't about mutual respect. It's more concerns with control than sacrifice. And I wonder whether it's better or worse when love finally walks away.
Ellen Hopkins
#68. But he drank a lot. When love dies, he told me, there are no survivors.
Eion Colfer
#69. As some strings, untouched,
sound when no one is speaking.
So it was when love slipped inside us.
Jane Hirshfield
#70. When love isn't in our lives, it's on the way. If you know that a special guest is coming at five o'clock, do you spend the day messing up the home? Of course not. You prepare. And that is what we should do for love.
Marianne Williamson
#71. There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.
Susan Minot
#72. When love is your power and imagination is your guide, nothing is impossible.
Debasish Mridha
#73. When your love lets you go you only want love more, even when love wasn't what you were looking for.
Tegan Quin
#75. O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!
Witter Bynner
#76. When Love and Lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the Purest heart.
Cassandra Clare
#77. When love and duty are one then grace is within your soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#78. When love comes, it comes without effort like the perfect weather.
Helen Yglesias
#79. When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
Albert Camus
#80. The big lesson about loving someone was coming to understand that when love ended for one person, it ended for both people.
Elizabeth George
#81. When love allows you to be who you are truly and deeply, the nakedness of the body holds no significant power to the attributes of the pureness of one's soul. Being able to connect to a person in a way where the bodies become one, the heart becomes one, and the souls become entangled as one. "When
Zoya
#82. Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.
E. M. Forster
#83. When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.
Euripides
#84. When love begins, it's easy for you to make something out of nothing.
When it ends, it's much harder to turn that something back into nothing.
Pleasefindthis
#85. When Love runs through the front door fear runs out the back.
Mark Beeson
#86. When Love and Life first meet, a radiant thing is born, without a shade. When the roads begin to roughen, when the shades begin to darken, when the days are hard, and the nights cold and long - then it begins to change.
Olive Schreiner
#87. Now the thought of forever makes me tired. Frightened. Sad. What is forever worth? When love is so fragile and even one human life so long?
Stacey Jay
#88. When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
#89. A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.
William Butler Yeats
#91. Love and Hate: both are four-lettered and both involve passion. And sometimes when love turns into hate, passion grows murderous.
Natalya Vorobyova
#92. It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.
Neil Young
#93. It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.
Deborah Harkness
#94. The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.
Lemony Snicket
#95. When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.
E. M. Forster
#96. I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
Rupert Brooke
#97. The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen.
Garth Brooks
#98. When love burns toward the Savior a sincere passion to render obedience to all of His precepts is our desire, our delight and our holy obsession.
Albert Martin
#99. When love carries us away on its brittle wings, we are too intoxicated to comprehend its power. We just want to soar and feel its adventurous spirit. The realistic aspect of love is not that romantic.
Balroop Singh
#100. When you fall in love, when Love really does its worst, it gives you no cause. It swallows you whole. It allows no refusals. Like Jonah only after he had been inside the whale awhile, you may say, if asked, Oh, this is why I am here.
Candice Raquel Lee
