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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:

On Thee we fling our burdening woe,
O love Divine, forever dear:
Content to suffer, while we know,
Living and dying, Thou art near!

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859)

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

[T]he only real parting is when there is no love left to part from.

Dinah Craik

I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. “Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!”

Jack London

I love doing what I do, but I don't like seeing the finished product.

Pamela Anderson

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Sri Aurobindo Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)

And now deep in his weary heart
Are sacred flames that whitely burn.
He has of Heaven's grace a part
Who loves, who is beloved in turn.

Joyce Kilmer Trees and Other Poems (1914)

For what man is there who does not prize that gift most rare and beautiful, that one perfect thing which no gold can buy – a woman's unfeigned love?

H. Rider Haggard Cleopatra (1889)

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong
And I am Marie of Roumania.

Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania

"(...) Make your entire life an expression of your faith and love for your teacher – this is real dwelling with the Guru."

Nisargadatta Maharaj

A thug changes, and love changes
and best friends become strangers, word up

Nas It Was Written (1996)

I'll never forget the way you feel right now —
Oh no — no way —
I would do anything for love
But I won't do that.

Jim Steinman Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993)

Christ came to free us from the law, but Christianity allowed the legal mentality to be brought into the very heart of love.

Ivan Illich The Rivers North of the Future (2005)

You have to express yourself. And to express yourself, you have to know yourself. It's actually super easy. Just have to follow your love.

Ethan Hawke

If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him.

Anton Chekhov Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

When love's the culmination
of everything you feel
then it's the only thing that's precious
it's the only thing that's real

Kim Wilde Close (1988)

I just came to say goodbye love, goodbye love, goodbye.

Jonathan Larson Rent (1996)

I do not need your loving words
or hurried kiss
as night comes down
in the place where we once lived
innocent as children,
and happier.

Anna Akhmatova Red Winged Birds (1917)

As human beings, we have the responsibility to harness the immense human potential for good, not evil; for love, not hatred; and for peace, not war.

Newton Lee

The flower and fruit of love are mine
The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole

Stevie Smith Selected Poems (1962)

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