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Quotes regarding love:

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A

  • "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave". ~ Mohandas Gandhi
  • "A man and a woman will never be incompatible, as long as he has income, and she is pattable." Ogden Nash
  • "A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears". ~ Woodrow Wyatt
  • "A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self-in the mirror of some woman's eyes". ~ Clare Boothe Luce
  • "A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day". ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "The art of love diplomacy is not mastered through the maps of war". ~ Anonymous
  • "All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love". ~ Eleanor Farjeon
  • "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love". ~ Leo Tolstoy
  • "All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing -- glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond". ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
  • "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh". ~ W. H. Auden
  • "Amoris vulnus idem sanat, qui facit.
    Translation: The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them". ~ Syrus Publilius
  • "An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge". ~ John Wesley
  • "And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught". ~ Khalil Gibran in The Prophet
  • "And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others". ~ Professor Marvel in Wizard of Oz
  • "And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course". ~ Khalil Gibran
  • "As for the other losses, the poet's relation doth well figure them: that he that preferred Helena, quitted the gifts of Juno and Pallas. For whosoever esteemeth too much of amorous affection, quitteth both riches and wisdom". ~ Francis Bacon
  • "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet". ~ Plato
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C

  • "The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." -Oscar Wilde
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D

  • "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while". ~ The Princess Bride
  • "Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means". ~ George Burns
  • "Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more". ~ Erica Jong in How to Save Your Own Life (1977).
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E

  • "Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground". ~ Meister Eckhart
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F

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G

  • "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love". ~ Albert Einstein
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H

  • "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it". ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • "Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love". ~ Neil Gaiman
  • "He who has never experienced hurt, cannot experience true love". ~Tristan J. Loo
  • "He is not a lover who does not love forever". ~ Euripides
  • "He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses". ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "How come we don't always know when love begins, but we always know when it ends? ~ L. A. Story
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I

  • "I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love". ~ Mother Teresa
  • "I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity". ~ Gilda Radner, 1946-1989
  • "I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found". ~ John Forbes Nash, in A Beautiful Mind
  • "If I know what love is, it is because of you". ~ Hermann Hesse
  • "If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity." ~ Jean Baudrillard
  • "If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too." ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, "Address at Dedication of Wheaton College Library, 1973" (1974).
  • "If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater." ~ Tanis HalfElven from the Dragonlance saga
  • "If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual". ~ Robertson Davies, "The Pleasures of Love," in Saturday Night (23 December 1961); reprinted in The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies (1990).
  • "If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible". ~ Osho
  • "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". ~ Doug Horton
  • "If you love the children of others, you will love your own even better". ~ Anonymous
  • "It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh". ~ Agnes Repplier
  • "It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death". ~ Thomas Mann
  • "It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving". ~ Richard Braunstein
  • "Im not as cold as you think. Im not falling, Im just on the brink. Im floating between this world and the next. Donno where to go, As long as I am who I know. As long as I have myself then I dont care. Say what you want, Say what you will, Say anything. It wont change how I feel. I used to be so cold, And then I woke up and realised, you ARE the cold. You are the one who leaves me, Your breath upon the foggy window of my soul, writing message of hate, that burns its way into my heart. And now Im wiping them all away. Slowly, Slowly, one by one. The rest will fade with the rain when it comes." Rebecca Curulli
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J

  • "Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy- in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other". ~ Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land
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L

  • "Look at time and distance as the essence of the understanding in realizing how price-less it is to have you". ~ Ronald Johnston
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Love

  • "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient". ~ Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary
  • "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 ~ Anonymous
  • "Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. - Harlan Ellison, Title of book (1968)
  • "Love conquers all; and let us submit to love". ~ Original: Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori". ~ Virgil
  • "Love demands all, and has a right to all". ~ Beethoven
  • "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction". ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • "Love does not dominate; it cultivates". ~ Goethe
  • "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile". ~ Franklin Jones
  • "Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love". ~ Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
  • "Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil". ~ Goethe
  • "Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must". ~ Mother Teresa
  • "Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest". ~ Eleanor Farjeon
  • "Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless". ~ Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), German monk, mystic, in The Imitation of Christ, pt. 3, ch. 6 (1471).
  • "Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand". ~ Mother Teresa
  • "Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast". ~ Mark Twain
  • "Love is a minefield. You take a step and get blown to pieces, put yourself back together again and stupidly take another step. I guess that's human nature. It hurts so much to be alone that we'd all rather blow up than be single". ~ Kate Welles (Famke Janssen) in Love & Sex (2000)
  • "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come". ~ John Harrigan
  • "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit". ~ Peter Ustinov (b. 1921), British actor, writer, director. Christian Science Monitor (Boston, 9 Dec. 1958).
  • "Love is as unproblematic as a vehicle. The only problems are the drivers, the passengers and the road". ~ Franz Kafka
  • "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition". ~ Alexander Smith
  • "Love is good in feeling, even if you are always being hurt. It is better to be hurt by love than not loving at all". ~ Anonymous
  • "Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same". ~ Helen Keller
  • "Love is like π -- natural, irrational, and very important". ~ Lisa Hoffman
  • "Love is loving what your lover loves". ~anonymous
  • "Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter". ~ T.S. Eliot
  • "Love is much like a wild rose; beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense". ~ Mark A. Overby
  • "Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding". ~ Bette Davis (1908-89), U.S. screen actor. The Lonely Life, ch. 19 (1962).
  • "Love is one song sung by two". ~ Garfield
  • "Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality ~ Victor Frankl
  • "Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived". ~ [William Parrish] from the movie, Meet Joe Black (1998)
  • "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres". ~ 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
  • "Love is something even the most perfect assemblage of words can't describe. So please stop scaling or putting it into numbers. It doesn't work". ~ Oliver Metz
  • "Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness". ~ C.S. Lewis
  • "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own". ~ Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land
  • "* "Alternate version; Love: the condition in which the welfare and happiness of another becomes essential to your own.
  • "Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions". ~ Woody Allen
  • "Love is the delusion that one woman is different from another". ~ Oscar Wilde
  • "Love is the irresistable desire to be desire irresistably" ~ Louis Ginsburg
  • "Love is the most beautiful gift we are given to share". ~ Anonymous
  • "Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday". ~ Noelle, Age 7 (participant in a survey of 4-8 year olds asked to define love)
  • "Love is'nt giving too much, but realizing that others give too little". Mahe Vakauta
  • "Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again". ~ Edwin Robinson
  • "Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths". ~ Mark Twain
  • "Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.... And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love". ~ Paul of Tarsus, 1 Corinthians 13:4 - 8 (New King James Version)
  • "Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?
    Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere". ~ Emma Goldman, "Marriage and Love" in Anarchism and Other Essays (1911)
  • "Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence". ~ Carl Sandburg
  • "Love is our true destiny". ~ Thomas Merton
  • "Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it". ~ Jacques Lacan
  • "Loving someone is giving them the power to hurt you, but trusting them not to."~ Anonymous
  • "Love was the first word to be invented solely to allow women to control men." - Rational Thinker
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M

  • "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it". ~ Song of Songs 8:7 (Alternate translation: "Many waters are not able to quench love, nor can the rivers flood it away.")
  • "May you love as long as you live and live as long as you love". ~ Robert Heinlein
  • "Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance". ~ Oscar Wilde
  • "My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it. I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses". ~ John Keats (Letters to Fanny)
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N

  • "No greater force than the force of love. No man or woman can alter its course - by force, or love." ~ James Stephen Cathcart
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O

  • "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness". ~ Bertrand Russell
  • "Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori.
Translation: Love conquers all; and let us submit to love". ~ Virgil
  • "Once a tear fell off my cheek and into the ocean, the day I find it will be the day I stop loving you". ~ Anonymous
  • "One of the cruelest ways to kill natural love is through the rejection that results form having built the love on natural desires". ~ Unknown
  • "One does not love another if one does not accept anything from him". ~ Anonymous
  • "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love". ~ Sophocles
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P

  • "People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense". ~ Ken Kesey
  • "Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit". ~ Alexandre Dumas
  • "Raising a child is the highest form of love a human being can experience". ~ Marsha Rock
  • "Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists". ~ Anita Brookner
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S

  • "Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best". ~ Woody Allen
  • "So let me save you the suspense. You're not perfect, and she's not either. What matters is whether you're perfect for each other". ~ Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting
  • "So long as a man remains free, he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship". ~ Anonymous
  • "Stay with me flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love". ~ Song of Solomon 2:5 (Alternate translation: "Strengthen me with flagons of wine, refresh me with apples; for sick of love am I.")
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T through Z

  • "Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are". ~ Houssaye
  • "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart". ~ Helen Keller
  • "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves". ~ Victor Hugo
  • "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return". ~ Eden Ahbez
  • "The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing". ~ Pascal
  • "The laws of love are written in the heart of every human being by the hand of God". ~ Anonymous
  • "The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others". ~ Vincent van Gogh
  • " The only victory over love is flight". ~ Napoléon Bonaparte during the first few days of his exile
  • " The stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury". ~ Francis Bacon
  • " The success of love is in the loving- it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done". ~ Mother Teresa
  • "The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness". ~ Kabir
  • "The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it". ~ D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. Letter, 2 June 1912 (published in The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, vol. 1, ed. by James T. Boulton, 1979). Lawrence wrote the letter after eloping to Germany with Frieda von Richthofen, wife of his old university professor, whom he later married.
  • "The world moves for love; it kneels before it in awe". ~ Edward Walker, in The Village
  • "The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them. Original: Amoris vulnus idem sanat, qui facit". ~ Syrus Publilius
  • "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another". ~ Frank Zappa
  • "There is in man's nature, a secret inclination and motion, towards love of others, which if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometime in friars". ~ Francis Bacon
  • "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love". ~ John 4:18
  • "There is nothing more painful than seeing someone you love loving someone else. But there is nothing more rewarding than seeing two people you love loving each other". ~ J.H. Li
  • "There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise". ~ Francis Bacon
  • "This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love". ~ Gerald Massey
  • "Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lost, and all that we hate we will eventually face". ~ F. Sionil Jose The Mass
  • "To be in love is to love an ideal within yourself. To love is to love no ideal but love within itself." ~ James Stephen Cathcart
  • "To be loved, love. (Si vis amari, ama.) ~ Ovid
  • "To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell". ~ T.G.S.R
  • "To love and be loved, is to feel the Sun from both sides". ~ David Viscott
  • "To love another person is to see the face of God". ~ Victor Hugo
  • "To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us". ~ Baroness Orczy
  • "To love the king is not bad, but a king who loves you is better". ~ Anonymous
  • "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. . . . When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence". ~ Edmond de Goncourt (1822-96) and Jules de Goncourt (1830-70), French writers. The Goncourt Journals (1888-96; repr. in Pages from the Goncourt Journal, ed. by Robert Baldick, 1962), entry for 15 Nov. 1859.
  • "True love always involves a choice". ~ Ray H Wall
  • "True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths..". ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • "True love is giving all you have to someone you know you're going to lose". ~ Ray H Wall
  • "True love is rare, so when you find it don't let it go just because of a barrier you can't cross". ~ Ray H Wall
  • "True love is the Devil's crowbar". ~ X
  • "True love is the only heart disease that is best left to run on". ~ Mark Twain
  • "True understanding is deeper in meaning than mere words, and is important for its result, not petty rhetoric. Those who can verbalize their happiness have little happiness to speak of. My love has grown so much that I can't tell even half of it in words". ~ Unknown (paraphrasing William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
  • "Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church". ~ William Phelps
  • "They say it is to know the union with love that the soul takes union with the body". ~ Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 73
  • "The throb of life is love. Without it, humans are bodies of bones clad with skin". ~ Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 80
  • "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love". ~ Goethe
  • "We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly". ~ William Shakespeare in As You Like It (II, iv, 53-56)
  • "We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love". ~ Tom Robbins
  • "What did my hands do before they held you?". ~ Sylvia Plath
  • "What is love but that which poisons the body, clouds the mind, yet envigorates the soul". ~ Adam Murphy
  • "When someone hurts you, cry a river, Build a bridge and get over it!". ~Richard Middleton
  • "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace". ~ Jimi Hendrix
  • "When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze; and when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids". ~ I Ching
  • "When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain". ~ Mark Twain
  • "Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other". ~ C. G. Jung
  • "Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles". ~ Willa Cather
  • "With love and patience, nothing is impossible". ~ Daisaku Ikeda
  • "Woman was created from the rib of man: Not from his head to be thought of only, nor from his hand to be owned, nor from his foot to be beneath, but from under his arm to be protected, from his side to be equal, and from his heart to be loved..". ~ Author Unknown
  • "Woman was put on this earth by god as a divine tool of punishment, to tempt us foolish mortal men". ~ W.E.L
  • "You can give all the gifts in the world to the one you have chosen, but the everlasting one will always remain the deed of a kind word". ~ -Jacques Pierre Ribault
  • "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
  • "You are what you love, not what loves you". ~ Adaptation (film)
  • "You don't get to choose. You just fall". ~ Anonymous
  • "Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit". ~ Guy Debord
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Verses

Escape me ?
Never -
Beloved !
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world
contains us both,
Me the loving and you
the loth,
While the one eludes, must
the other persue.
- Robert Browning
Love reckons by itself -- alone --
"As large as I" -- relate the Sun
To One who never felt it blaze --
Itself is all the like it has --
- Emily Dickinson from Love reckons by itself
I hold it true, whate'er befall
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
- William Shakespeare from Twelfth Night <i>(I, i,1-3)<i>
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
I love her for her smile... her look... her way
Of speaking gently... for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day-
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee-and love so wrought,
May be unwrought so.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese, Sonnet 14
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs
Being purged, the fire in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
- "Romeo" in Romeo and Juliet act 1, sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
- William Shakespeare
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
- William Shakespeare
My love is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
- William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day;
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away."
- William Shakespeare from The Two Gentlemen of Verona (I, iii, 84-87)
O lyric love, half angel
and half bird,
And all a wonder and a
wild desire !
- Robert Browning
You see through love, and that
deludes your sight,
As what is straight seems
crooked through the water.
- John Dryden (1631-1700)
The breaths are air and they go to the air!
The tears are water and they go into the sea!
Tell me women: When love gets forgotten?
And do you know where it goes?
- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
When I'm feeling blue
All I have to do
Is take a look at you
And then I'm not so blue
Wouldn't you agree, baby, you and me, we got a groovy kind of love.
- Wayne Fontana
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (New International Version)
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