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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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For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The First Circle (1968)

peace is possible. It needs to be implored from God as his gift, but it also needs to be built day by day with his help, through works of justice and love.

Pope John Paul II

God is pleased with nothing but love … All our works, and all our labours, how grand soever they may be, are nothing in the sight of God.

John of the Cross

[Y]ou have to live without love, learn not to need it, in order to live with it.

Mary McCarthy The Group (1963)

Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.

Yanni

Narcissism: when one grows too old to believe in one's uniqueness, one falls in love with one's complexity.

John Fowles Daniel Martin (1977)

“Is there anything you need?”
“Need? Aye. Peace of mind. Knowledge of my true destiny. A quiet place where I can be with Cymoril, whom I love.”

Michael Moorcock Elric at the End of Time (1985)

There must be countless forms of love. Which is the form which conquers the rest? I cannot define it. I shall not try.

Michael Moorcock The Eternal Champion (1970)

I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.

William Saroyan The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

Here's a chance, I think, for us to kind of remind ourselves, of those things we all commonly enjoy and love and share, try to get back together.

Cat Stevens

When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.

Dave Eggers You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

[L]ove, in spite of the romantics, is not self-sustaining; it endures only when the lovers love many things together, and not merely each other.

Walter Lippmann A Preface to Morals (1929)

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.

Meher Baba

The only Real Sacrifice is that in which, in pursuance of this Love, all things — body, mind, position, welfare and even life itself — are sacrificed.

Meher Baba Discourses (1967)

There can be a new tomorrow
There can be a brighter day
There can be a new tomorrow
Love will find a way

Jackie DeShannon Love Will Find A Way (1968)

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my Crown, that I have reigned with your loves.

Elizabeth I of England The Golden Speech (1601)

But the kissed lips of Love and fair life everlasting!
Cry out, for one heedeth, who leadeth you home!

William Morris Love is Enough (1872)

Love simply is. … Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

Paulo Coelho

Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for a time

Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night (1955)

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Mignon McLaughlin The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

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