Christmas Quotes
Most of the quotes on this page are not about Christmas at all. We built it from the pages on family, love and gratitude, which is what people tend to want for a card or a toast.
That makes it a long list, ordered by quality rather than by how seasonal each entry feels. If you want something that sounds like Christmas, search for it. If you want something that would be true at any family table, start here.
Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.
Here, on this side of the grave,
Here, should we labor and love.
I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
"You of all people," the void communicated. "Out of everyone, it is you I love the most."
Lukewarmness I account a sin
As great in love as in religion.
Petulant priests, greedy
centurions, and one million
incensed gestures stand
between your love and me.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.
Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs
And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know…
Against the outcrop boulders of a raised beach
We built our house when I and my love were young.
Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.
"Look out pop-culture! Bono has had enough of 'romantic love'."