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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:

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt.
Do you like to hurt?
I do, I do
then hurt me.

Conor Oberst Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

I was more fucked-up than Courtney Love at the Pamela Anderson roast!

Ron White

The streets made me, and the streets stink, but I love them, for I was born in them out of flesh and I was born in them out of spirit.

William Saroyan The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

Love is enough: have no thought for to-morrow
If ye lie down this even in rest from your pain,
Ye who have paid for your bliss with great sorrow...

William Morris Love is Enough (1872)

I see the lost Love in beauty
Go gliding over the main:
I feel the ancient sweetness,
The worm and the wormwood again.

Francis Turner Palgrave

Love: The delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

John Barrymore How to Be a Perennial Juvenile (1941)

Amarantine is an ancient word, which means eternity. The poets describe an undying flower with that word, and I fell in love with that idea ...

Enya Anna interview (2005)

You would have understood me, had you waited;
I could have loved you, dear! as well as he:
Had we not been impatient, dear! and fated
Always to disagree.

George William Russell

And whenever I saw Luis, Graça's husband, I dealt with him with a friendship that was quite genuine, since it was offered out of gratitude for Graça's love.

V. S. Naipaul

These nymphs I would perpetuate.
So clear
Their light carnation, that it floats in the air
Heavy with tufted slumbers. Was it a dream I loved?

Stéphane Mallarmé The Afternoon of a Faun (1876)

My eye is ever on those who love me.

Sai Baba of Shirdi

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

Cesare Pavese This Business of Living (1935)

I also love a quiet place
That's green, away from all mankind;
A lonely pool, and let a tree
Sigh with her bosom over me.

William Henry Davies

Eroticism means "caused by love." That is eroticism's meaning. (Erotic vs. porn) Real sex is erotic.

Vanna Bonta

"I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me."

James Herriot

How shall I leave thee, oh! my love,
And blooming progeny?
If I without thee mount above,
'Twill be no heav'n to me.

Ann Eliza Bleecker

What is dignity? The measure of liberty.
* "If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him".

Giannina Braschi Yo-Yo Boing! (1998)

If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winters night with you

Gordon Lightfoot The Way I Feel (1967)

In the most affirming places of their love
Suddenly they grew tired, out of breath
Little by little they felt the death
Of some places left in darkness

Ataol Behramoğlu I've Learned Some Things (2008)

I wonder if I am going crazy or if I do not love my family enough, or if it is the opposite, if I love them too much. If I am the only sane person I know.

Philipp Meyer The Son (2013)

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