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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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And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

John the Evangelist

Kissing Agathon, I held my life on my lips.
It wanted to pass over, poor thing, into him.

Plato

I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

John Keats

We needed you
To love us too.
We wait for your move.

Kate Bush The Dreaming (1982)

I needed you
To love me too.
I wait for your move.

Kate Bush The Dreaming (1982)

We let it in
We give it out
And in the end
What's it all about?
It must be love.

Kate Bush The Red Shoes (1993)

What was our parting ?—one wild kiss,
How wild I may not say,
One long and breathless clasp, and then
As life were past away.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

How long will I want you?
As long as you want me to
And longer by far

Mike Scott Room to Roam (1990)

The whole truth...
sings only —and all lovers are the song

E. E. Cummings

If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy Love. But fading flowers in every field,
To winter floods their treasures yield;
A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall,
Is Fancy's spring, but Sorrow's fall.

Walter Raleigh The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (1599)

Love is a pearl of purest hue,
But stormy waves are round it;
And dearly may a woman rue,
The hour that she found it.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Improvisatrice (1824)

If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.

Julian of Norwich

They sin who tell us love can die;
With life all other passions fly,
All others are but vanity.
. . . . .
Love is indestructible,
Its holy flame forever burneth;
From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
. . . . .
It soweth here with toil and care,
But the harvest-time of love is there.

Robert Southey The Curse of Kehama (1810)

I found the Taj Mahal as the most appropriate example of artistically expressed love.

Suman Pokhrel

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Table-Talk (1857)

Then out on the folly of ancient times—
The folly which wished you mirth :
Look round on the anguish, look round on the vice,
Then dare to be glad upon earth !

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Each one gave the other the only assistance one man can expect from another: that his friend support him and ask only that he remain himself. It is no great accomplishment to take people as they are, and we must always do so eventually, but to wish them to be as they are, that is a genuine love.

Émile Chartier Propos sur le bonheur [On Happiness (1928)

Henceforth I will look upon all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968)

Cupid "the little greatest enemy."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

O! that the Desert were my dwelling place,
With one fair Spirit for my minister,
That I might all forget the human race,
And, hating no one, love but only her!

Lord Byron

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