Love
is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. … there
are no age limits for love. Stendhal in
his fantastic 1822 treatise on love.
“It
is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies
because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and
errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of
witherings, of tarnishings.” ―Anaïs Nin
“No
relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to
compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…The love we
have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key.
It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest
piece. Love can make up for a lot.” ―Sarah Dessen
“The
best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that
plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what
you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever.” ―Nicholas Sparks
“I
heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the
heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those
things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and
wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.” ―Shana Abe
“Sometimes
it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common
with and still be fascinated by their presence.” ―David Byrne
“I
no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was
beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you
might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect,
or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way
that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.” ―Lisa Kleypas
“As
he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at
once.” ―John Green
“When
love is not madness it is not love.” ―
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
“We’re
all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through
enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just
different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some
way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it
takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until
you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the
ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate.
Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the
wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you
lovingly gaze upon and think, this is the problem I want to have. I will find
that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way. Let our scars
fall in love.” ―Galway Kinnell
“Anyone
who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their
time.” ―Paulo Coelho
“Letting
go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing
that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” ―Deborah Reber
And
now we’re apart and you’re just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all
my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn’t make sense. Gaby Dunn
"Love
stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker
"Love
has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is
its nature." - Howard Thurman
"Love
is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous
"Love
consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
"Loves
makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston
"Love
is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a
pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day." -
Nicholas Sparks
"To
love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde
"A
love song is just a caress set to music." - Sigmund Romberg
"Love
is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain
forever." - unknown
"Love
is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human
existence." - Erich Fromm
"In
the final analysis, love is the only reflection of man's worth." - Bill
Wundram, Iowa Quad Cities Times
The
hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother
Teresa
Gravitation
is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein
There
is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. Charles
Morgan
You
have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into
your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you
trip. Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"
Ah
me! love can not be cured by herbs. Ovid
Love
is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich
Fromm
Life
has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking
outward together in the same direction.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and
Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
When
love is not madness, it is not love.Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Let
your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.Malagasy
Proverb
For
you see, each day I love you more
Today
more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde
Gerard
Love
is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its
defense. Mark Overby
Love
is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out
all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Author Unknown
Love
- a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart
which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure
to rise and the lips to pucker.Author Unknown
Love
is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly .Proverb
The
lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but
cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. Theodor Reik, Of Love
and Lust, 1957
The
art of love... is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis
Love
one another and you will be happy. It's
as simple and as difficult as that. Michael Leunig
Who
would give a law to lovers? Love is unto
itself a higher law. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524
A
baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. Frank A. Clark
Love
is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your
own. Robert Heinlein
The
hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight,
and a fountain singing to it. You and
you alone make me feel that I am alive.
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art
enough. George Moore
Absence
diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the
candle and fans the bonfire. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
My
debt to you, Belovèd,
Is
one I cannot pay
In
any coin of any realm
On
any reckoning day.
Jessie
B. Rittenhouse
The
ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. Quoted by
Alexandra Penney in Self
Love
is, above all, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh
When
a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. Bill Balance
Anyone
can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. Rose Franken
Love
is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. Swedish Proverb
Time
is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for
those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time
is eternity. Henry Van Dyke
Love
is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. Lord Dewar
When
you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the
qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the
light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the
meeting of your sparks. Natalie Clifford Barney
Only
in love are unity and duality not in conflict. Rabindranath Tagore
It
is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. John Bulwer
'Tis
sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we
come. Lord Byron
Love
is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her
husband has walked across it in his barn boots. Author unknown, as printed in
The Hoosier Farmer
Love
is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry
Love
cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Karl
Menninger
Love
doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of
the time, made new. Ursula K. Le Guin
Love
is not singular except in syllable. Marvin Taylor
Love
is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation
of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. John Ciardi
People
who are sensible about love are incapable of it. Douglas Yates
While
duty measures the regard it owes
With
scrupulous precision and nice justice,
Love
never reasons, but profusely gives,
Gives,
like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
And
trembles then, lest it has done too little.
Hannah
More
Ah
me! why may not love and life be one? Henry Timrod
It
is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. Marguerite
de Valois
Love....
Its eternal goal is life.... No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt
for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence. Smiley
Blanton, quoted in Woman's Home Companion, 1956
A
joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. Mother
Teresa
You
don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. Werner Erhard
Love
me and the world is mine. David Reed
It
would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew
completely. Love is directed towards
what lies hidden in its object. Paul Valéry, Tel quel, 1943
The
love game is never called off on account of darkness. Tom Masson
Sometimes
it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common
with and still be fascinated by their presence. David Byrne
Love
makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston
An
old man in love is like a flower in winter. Portuguese Proverb
Without
love, the rich and poor live in the same house. Author Unknown
The
heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet
the whole world is not sufficient for it. Francis Quarles, Emblems
Love
is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. Paul-Jean
Toulet
We
don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. Marie
Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism
True
love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. François,
duc de La Rochefoucauld
Love,
and a cough, cannot be hid. George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651
Poetry
spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. Christopher
Paul Rubero
A
man is not where he lives, but where he loves. Latin Proverb
The
arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms
of love gather you together. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929,
translated from French by Curtis Cate
Be
everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it
any other way. Amrit Desai
A
lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. Nicholas
de Chamfort
Love
is not consolation. It is light. Friedrich Nietzsche
True
love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get
your ears checked. Erich Segal
[T]here
is no hope for us in this painful, mysterious world save in giving ourselves to
love. Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens
Romance
is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Elinor
Glyn
For
small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl
Sagan
You
can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Author Unknown
Love
is being stupid together. Paul Valery
In
this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man
calls grandly the need for love. Charles Baudelaire
On
a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love. Always love.
For something, from someone. It's
never done. Never. Jeb Dickerson
Fall
not in love therefore; it will stick to your face. Tony Hendra,
"Deteriorata"
Love
does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. Charles du Bos
What
an infinity of bliss the possession of your love seemed to me — the future so
full of passionate sweet life that my spirit shrank blinded from trying to
explore it; I stopped content with the delicious sense of that moment alone. Byron
Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens
Love
is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. Cathy
Carlyle
Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It
passed into thy lifelong regency.
Gilbert
Parker
The
heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. Blaise Pascal, Pensées,
1670
A
man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose
company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose
company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan
Love
makes time pass; time makes love pass. French Proverb
The
past is behind us, love is in front and all around us. Terri Guillemets
It
is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding
the essence that renders all else background. Robert Brault
I
love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943,
translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Platonic
love is love from the neck up.Thyra Smater Winsolow
The
music may have stopped but my heart beats to another tune, this rhythm called
love.A.C. Van Cherub
She
stole a piece of my heart but I couldn't ask for a better place I'd rather be
imprisoned. Craig D. Slovak
We
waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.Tom
Robbins
The
eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there
ought to be as many for love. Margaret Atwood
Love
touches the soul and awakens a desire so powerful that even the most vigilant
heart is lured by its radiance. Jamie Lynn Morris
Love
is not a matter of what happens in life.
It's a matter of what's happening in your heart. Ken Keyes
Being
deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives
you courage. Lao Tzu
The
learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations
have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.
What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can
distinguish the colours of love? Pisistratus Caxton, What Will He Do With It?
In
the midst of pain and urgent trouble we can not realize the supreme happiness
of being loved — sweetest and deepest of all meditations.... Byron Caldwell
Smith, letter to Kate Stephens
Love
is the law of life. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Men
love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives
in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses
itself in the sky. V.F. Calverton
To
lovers! — the have-been's, the are-now's, and the may-be's. Minna Thomas
Antrim, A Book of Toasts, 1902
The
love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
The
impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to
sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. Aldous Huxley
Love
is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial
breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. Victor Hugo
Love
doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin
P. Jones
If
you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it.
If it comes back, love it forever. Douglas Horton
I
love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Julius Caesar
All
happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which
we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza
The
things that we love tell us what we are. Thomas Aquinas
Love
does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. Soren Kierkegaard
Of
all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true
happiness. Bertrand Russell
The
essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily
experience worthwhile. Denis Waitley
Love
is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. Rabindranath Tagore
Love
has no age, no limit; and no death. John Galsworthy
Falling
in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore.
It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated. Ville Valo
We
live in the world when we love it. Rabindranath Tagore
It
is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So
to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak
painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. Henry Ward Beecher
The
more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more
genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love,
and understanding companionship. Amelia Earhart
People
everywhere love Windows. Bill Gates
Love
is all, it gives all, and it takes all. Soren Kierkegaard
About
all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you.
Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at
all. Rita Mae Brown
The
three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual
achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded,
and to say, 'I was wrong'. Sydney J. Harris
There's
a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with
someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love
with the person even more. Dave Grohl
We
are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love
we're not extending in the present. Marianne Williamson
Do
what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or
baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and
you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old
man before you know it. Al Lopez
I
say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person
and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them -
you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there
with them. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It
is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can
never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. George Eliot
We're
never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we
cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. Walter Anderson
Ages
of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to
love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the
stability of society. Jack Kingston
Nothing
is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of
Christ's followers seem to disagree. Richard Dawkins
I
love mankind; it's people I can't stand. Charles M. Schulz
I
do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the
world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added
mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain
vulnerable. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Love
is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most
of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Erich
Fromm
Love
is the only game that is not called on account of darkness. Thomas Carlyle
I
was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one
thing I'm indebted to her for. W. C. Fields
Age
does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from
age.
Jeanne
Moreau
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it
is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh
Billings
Love
knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to
prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time. Marianne
Williamson
Never
pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to
command.
Alan
Watts
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has
many points in common therewith. Thomas Carlyle
Love
is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone
says something, and you're in love. Ray Bradbury
The
love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
The
impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to
sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. Aldous Huxley
Love
is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial
breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. Victor Hugo
Love
doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin
P. Jones
If
you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it.
If it comes back, love it forever. Douglas Horton
I
love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Julius Caesar
All
happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which
we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza
The
things that we love tell us what we are. Thomas Aquinas
Love
does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. Soren Kierkegaard
Of
all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true
happiness. Bertrand Russell
The
essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily
experience worthwhile. Denis Waitley
Love
is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. Rabindranath Tagore
Love
has no age, no limit; and no death. John Galsworthy
Falling
in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore.
It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated. Ville Valo
We
live in the world when we love it. Rabindranath Tagore
It
is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So
to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak
painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. Henry Ward Beecher
The
more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more
genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love,
and understanding companionship. Amelia Earhart
People
everywhere love Windows. Bill Gates
Love
is all, it gives all, and it takes all. Soren Kierkegaard
About
all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you.
Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at
all. Rita Mae Brown
The
three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual
achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded,
and to say, 'I was wrong'. Sydney J. Harris
There's
a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with
someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love
with the person even more. Dave Grohl
We
are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love
we're not extending in the present. Marianne Williamson
Do
what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or
baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and
you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old
man before you know it. Al Lopez
I
say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person
and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them -
you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there
with them. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It
is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can
never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. George Eliot
We're
never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we
cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. Walter Anderson
Ages
of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to
love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the
stability of society. Jack Kingston
Nothing
is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of
Christ's followers seem to disagree. Richard Dawkins
I
love mankind; it's people I can't stand. Charles M. Schulz
I
do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the
world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added
mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain
vulnerable. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Love
is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most
of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Erich
Fromm
Love
is the only game that is not called on account of darkness. Thomas Carlyle
I
was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one
thing I'm indebted to her for. W. C. Fields
Age
does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from
age.
Jeanne
Moreau
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it
is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh
Billings
Love
knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to
prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time. Marianne
Williamson
Never
pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to
command.
Alan
Watts
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has
many points in common therewith. Thomas Carlyle
Love
is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone
says something, and you're in love. Ray Bradbury
