L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.”
Source: Telegraph Avenue then
“Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?”
Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“Love, like destiny, loves surprises.”
“Love, like Edg'd tools, should never be played with.”
“Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.”
“Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.”
Source: Ten Poems to Open Your Heart
“Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.”
“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”
“Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.”
“Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Love, like life, is so insecure. It moves in our lives and occupies its sweet space in our hearts so easily. But it never guarantees that it will stay there forever. Probably that's why it is so precious.”
Source: Can Love Happen Twice?
“Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.”
“Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.”
Source: Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You
“Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.”
“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.”
“Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.”
Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses
“Love, like virtue, is its own reward.”
Source: The life of Sir J. Vanbrugh The relapse; or, Virtue in danger. The provok'd wife, with a new scene. Æsop, in two parts. The false friend
“Love, love will be my strongest weapon”
“Love, love will tear us apart, again.”
Source: So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks
“Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.”
Source: The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
“Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
Source: Chagall at the Met
“Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.”
“Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.”
Source: Moloka'i: A Novel
“Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.”
Source: The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009
“LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Love, no matter how it's expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn't diminish it.”
Source: The Pregnancy Test
“Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.”
Source: Soul Cravings
“Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.”
“Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.”
“Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.”
Source: Collected Poems: 1950-2012
“Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.”
“Love, peace and soul.”
“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.”
“Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.”
“Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.”
Source: Motivation and Personality
“Love, sex, food, friendship, art, play, beauty and the simple pleasure of a cup of tea are all well and good, but never forget that God/the universe is determined to kill you by whatever means necessary.”
“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”
Source: Greatest Works of Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Senitmental Education, November, A Simple Heart, Herodias and more
“Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.”
“Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!”
Source: The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920
“Love, so many People use your Name in vain.”
“Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.”
Source: The watch that ends the night: a novel
“Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!”
“Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.”
Source: Dante's Divina commedia, tr. in the metre and triple rhyme of the original, with notes, by mrs. Ramsay