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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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Parents—so essential yet sometimes like something you have stepped in and cannot get off your shoe. What else is there but to love them?

Jeffrey Ford The Empire of Ice Cream (2006)

Love is ungrateful, infirm, and unworthy of the name of love if it is not faithful in doing every will of God.

Jane Frances de Chantal

I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.

George Harrison

I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

Norman Mailer The Man Who Studied Yoga (1956)

“Peace, simpleton!” said the Princess. “Though he said he was unhappy, it does not follow that he must be in love.”

Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto (1764)

Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly and never seeking her own; for whosoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Thomas à Kempis The Imitation of Christ (1418)

Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree.

Langston Hughes

Follow me reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!

Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita (1967)

While we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me:
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return."

Eden ahbez Nature Boy (1948)

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two people who truly love each other to be not who shall command, but, who shall yield.

Frances Power Cobbe The Duties of Women (1881)

I like any man, I need tenderness and family warmth.

Majid Al Mohandis

When Divine providence graces you, and you are endowed with passion of love and alienated from your ego, at that time Divine love enters your inmost being and He shows His Beauty to you.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

To remain satisfied and grateful for the pleasure of the Beloved, at the cost of religion and heart is necessarily passionate love, which in Sufi terminology is called faithfulness.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink,
This many and many a year.

Alexander Brome

It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

Joseph Heller Catch-22 (1961)

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit — love.

Morihei Ueshiba

Sense of wrongs forget to treasure—
Brethren, live in perfect love!
In the starry realms above,
God will mete as we may measure.

Friedrich Schiller An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

We of the Shroud tend to believe in teaching those things we know we can teach, and in affairs of the heart—or gonads—there are no real experts. Love, like zen, cannot be learned, only felt.

Steve Perry The Man Who Never Missed (1985)

Love is of two natures; the love which is tranquil, which is found among both the elect and the common folk, and the love which is rapture, which is found only among the elect. This is road which leads direct to God.

Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Montesquieu Lettres Persanes (1721)

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