L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence.”
“Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.”
Source: The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality
“Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.”
“Love, yes. Word known to all men.”
Source: The Best of James Joyce
“Love, you are eternal like springtime.”
“Love, you drive me to distraction.”
“Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.”
Source: The Major
“Love, you mock us for your sport.”
Source: The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony”
Source: Sophie's World
“Love," he said, "has the longest arms.”
Source: Charmed Thirds: A Jessica Darling Novel
“Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.”
“Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.”
Source: Thoughts
“Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.”
Source: Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
“Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment, What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love! For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind, The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords, The story without an end that angels throng to hear, The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!”
Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated
“Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.”
Source: Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
“Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.”
“Love-making is an art which must be studied.”
“Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.”
“Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.”
“Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child-like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.”
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”
“Love. Healing. Help. Hope. The power of Christ to counter all troubles in all times—including the end of times. That is the safe harbor God wants for us in personal or public days of despair. That is the message with which the Book of Mormon begins, and that is the message with which it ends, calling all to 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him' (Moroni 10:32).”
“Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"”
“Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life.”
“Love. Is it just a word that boys use to manipulate girls?”
“Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.”
“Love. It's God's greatest gift. He fills our world with it and makes sure we grow up with caring, supportive parents. I'm just kidding. Pain is God's greatest gift. Pain is God's way of saying, "Hurts, don't it ? Wel, go ahead. Say, me dammit again."”
“Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable.”
“Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.”
Source: Revelations: Number 3 in series
“Love. It's too hard. That's why I listen to music.”
“Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”
Source: The Leopard
“Love. People threw that word around like carzy.”
Source: The Vast Fields of Ordinary
“Love. Purpose. Those are things that you can't plan for. Those are things that just happen.”
“Love. Resoundingly and absolutely.”
“Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.”
Source: The Wrinkle in Time Quintet
“Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.”
Source: Love Medicine
“Love. The great destroyer of worlds.”
“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
“Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.”
“Love.. is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity.”
“Love... doesn't happen every day. It doesn't happen at all for some people”
Source: Snowball in Hell
“Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.”
“Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.”
“Love... love... love, never counting the cost.”
Source: Grace in every season: through the year with Catherine Doherty : daily reflections
“Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.”
Source: Within a Budding Grove
“Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all”
“Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.”
Source: Mere Christianity