Thomas Merton Quotes

Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.

Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.

Love is larger than life.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'

Love is the reason for it all.

Art is much, but love is more.

Love is the most common miracle.

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

I do want love. Genuine love.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Love is the reason you were born.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.

Love is a friendship set to music.

I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

I do believe in one true love.

Love is the river of life in the world.

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Love is the bond of perfection.

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.