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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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In a family, children leave and go and set up their own households and that does not in any way affect the relationship between the family.

Mia Mottley Mia Mottley (2020)

Is there anything else in this world other than love, that you will never get bored of recurrence?

Sugathakumari

I'd rather have the hope of you,
Ah, Love, I'd rather grope for you
Within the great abyss
Than claim another's kiss.

Angela Morgan

Love is always holy, because its flames arise from the unique fire of God.

Antonio Bello

Eunuchs, abortive Platonists and priests
Speak always very wisely about love.

Theodore Spencer

"What is love?"
"The total absence of fear," said the Master.
"What is it we fear?"
"Love," said the Master.

Anthony de Mello One Minute Wisdom (1989)

Come holy harlequin!
Shake the world and shock the hypocrite
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
Let the feast of love begin,
Let the hungry all come in,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.

Sydney Carter

Lover, I don’t play to win but for the thrill until I’m spent.
Paint the black hole blacker. Paint the black hole blacker

St. Vincent Actor (2009)

They do not speak of boundless skies,
of passing loves like silver clouds.
They speak of cheerless towns, unwound:
on hazy moors of muffled music.

Fausto Cercignani Examples of self-translation (2004)

I am drunk in your love, Lala;
give me the cup to drink from your lips.
I am drunk with your love,
and that love gives me excitement.

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is.

Ken Kesey Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

May An, Enlil and Enki, who have loved Ibbi-Suen from the womb, look upon him approvingly.

Ishbi-Erra

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Robert Frost

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.

Lord Byron So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

J. D. Salinger Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov BBC obituary (2004)

Rust rust rust
in the engines of love and time

Leonard Cohen

Love is the only human emotion that cannot be controlled.

Rush Limbaugh

Love, like the yellow daffodil, is Lord of all I know.

Sydney Carter Julian of Norwich (1983)

A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

Arthur Miller The Crucible (1953)

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