love - quotes

Michael (Joseph) Jackson, 1958-2009

was an American musician, dancer, and entertainer

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

( http://thinkexist.com/quotes/Michael_Jackson/ )

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799

was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage —  he won't encounter many rivals.

Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850

was a French realist novelist

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

John Keats, 1795-1821

was an English lyric poet

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007

was an US novelist

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

( “The Sirens of Titan”, 1959 )

William Wordsworth, 1770-1850

was an English poet

That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Charles (John Huffam) Dickens, 1812-1870

was an English novelist

[About children] I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

( “The Old Curiosity Shop”, 1840 - 1841 )

Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862

was an US Transcendentalist author

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Oscar (Fingall O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, 1854-1900

was an Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

was an English poet and playwright

If rough be love with you, be rough with love.

( "Romeo and Juliet, 1591 - 1595 )

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1944

was a French writer

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

( “Wind, Sand and Stars”, 1939 )

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832

was a German dramatist, novelist, poet, and scientist

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

was an English poet and playwright

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

( “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, Act 1 scene 1, ca 1597 )

George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

was an Irish dramatist and socialist

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Jane Austen, 1775-1817

was an English novelist

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

( Pride and Prejudice, 1813 )