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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.

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Most quoted on christmas:

I somehow see what's beautiful
In things that are ephemeral
I'm my only friend of mine
And love is just a piece of time
in the world
in the world.
And I couldn't help but fall in love again.

Zooey Deschanel She & Him : Volume One (2008)

Perhaps it is the deprivation that keeps hearts connected. Once everything is fulfilled, wings sprout in everyone’s heart, and they fly off to different destinations. How can a relationship stay warm with just the body, when the heart is absent?"

Sanu Sharma

There have been women I have loved ... A lot, as discreetly as possible.

Jacques Chirac

The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

I know you'll speak no truth at this time.
I've to be guided
solely by your silence, your eyes and
the inaudible appeals of your heart.

Suman Pokhrel

Upon your shattered ruins where
This vine will flourish still, as rare,
As fresh, as fragrant as of old.
Love will not crumble.

Eleanor Farjeon Pan-Worship and Other Poems (1908)

Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy.

Alexander Pope

Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust.

John Keats Poems (1820)

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Now the Spirit of Love has this Original. God, as considered in himself in his Holy Being, before any thing is brought forth by him or out of him, is only an eternal Will to all Goodness.

William Law The Spirit of Love (1752)

Racism, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia—they're all connected. But the antidote to hate is love.

Joe Biden

Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? We think we can behave against everyone in the exact same rabid way we did against the Jews: to smash, crush--and even exterminate.

Friedrich Kellner Diary (1939)

Your dreamers may dream it
The shadow of a dream,
Your sages may deem it
A bubble on the stream;
Yet our kingdom draweth nigher
With each dawn and every day,
Through the earthquake and the fire
"Love will find out the way."

Alfred Noyes Drake, an English Epic (1908)

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Oscar Wilde

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Albert Camus The Plague (1947)

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Booker T. Washington Up From Slavery (1901)

Love’s a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.

Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human (1953)

Great literature, past or present, is the expression of great knowledge of the human heart; great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within...

Edith Hamilton The Greek Way (1930)

Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being.

Barry Long Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Love is a sacred mystery.
To those who love, it remains forever wordless;
But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

Kahlil Gibran

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