Duke Ellington Quotes

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

Love is love. Let's take it any way we can get it.

Real love is unconditional.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

I love you all too much, it's one of just of my problems.

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

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Love is such an objective thing. I mean, I can say I love my family, or I love my Diet Coke. So I guess, in different ways, yeah, I do believe in love.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.