LOVE QUOTES

LOVE QUOTES: 

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 Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Khalil Gibran Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny asRalph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford — but you'll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975 Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949 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 Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you? ~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard Forget love — I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Sandra J. Dykes 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 whichweakens 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 Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~Peter Ustinov Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595 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 Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ~Henry David Thoreau To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~Laurence Marks, M*A*S*H, "Love Story," original air date 7 January 1973, spoken by the character Hawkeye 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 We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe If I love you, what business is it of yours? ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ~François VI de la Rochefoucault My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day. ~Jessie B. Rittenhouse We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 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 the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~John Milton Feelings pass like clouds but love endures like the sky. ~Peter Roberts (Omnipresent Love, @evolvewithlove) 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 Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Love is the law of life. ~Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Are you a man, Octave? Do you see the leaves falling from the trees, the sun rising and setting? Do you hear the ticking of the clock of time with each pulsation of your heart? Is there, then, such a difference between the love of a year and the love of an hour? I challenge you to answer that, you fool, as you sit there looking out at the infinite through a window not larger than your hand. ~Alfred de Musset, The Confession of a Child of the Century/La Confession d'un enfant du siècle, 1836, Desgenais to Octave, translated from French by Kendall Warren Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light. ~Terri Guillemets 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 Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com To lovers! — the have-been's, the are-now's, and the may-be's. ~Minna Thomas Antrim, A Book of Toasts, 1902 Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Greg What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you. ~Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson, The Story of Us Ah! a blessing beyond all fate My sole mate 'tis my soul mate. ~Pixie Foudre I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven. ~Alfred de Musset, The Confession of a Child of the Century/La Confession d'un enfant du siècle, 1836, Desgenais to Octave, translated from French by Kendall Warren Love is a Mystery. You can't find it; it has to find you. ~Author Unknown The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~Victor Hugo Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~Pablo Picasso Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love. ~Silent Lotus Sometimes a couple stays together for the sake of the kids — two kids who pledged to be forever true. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com My heart was glass, daily shattered Your love the glue, repairing the tattered. ~Jaesse Tyler I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never knowwhere the hell you are. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945 Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life. ~Author Unknown Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. ~Author Unknown You see, I'd never stopped to wonder why it was that millions of boys all over creation weren't seeing her and instantly falling in love with her, worshipping her body and mind and soul and spirit as I did. It never occurred to me until this precise moment that maybe lots of boys wouldn't have thought she was gorgeous. Maybe she only seemed so gorgeous to me because — and this is the shocker — her face came alive when I walked in front of it. ~Author Unknown (I got this from Sassy magazine years ago but then lost the magazine — anyone know the attribution?) I'm so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy. ~Jaesse Tyler Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb Friendship, as some sage poet sings, Is chasten'd Love, depriv'd of wings, Without all wish or power to wander; Less volatile, but not less tender: Yet says the proverb—"Sly and slow "Love creeps, even where he cannot go;" To clip his pinions then is vain, His old propensities remain; And she, who years beyond fifteen, Has counted twenty, may have seen How rarely unplum'd Love will stay; He flies not—but he coolly walks away. ~Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806), "On the Aphorism, 'L'Amitié est l' Amour sans ailes.'" What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. ~Pearl Bailey Love is how you earn your wings. ~Karen Goldman Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them. ~Terri Guillemets It is really one moment of looking love dead in the eye that takes us everywhere in a flash. ~Swami Chetanananda Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Love, love, love — all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. ~Germaine Greer We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. ~W. Somerset Maugham We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. ~Robert Fulghum,True Love I saw them kissing in the shade      and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them Youth, God gave them Love,      and even God can give no more. ~Frederic Ridgely Torrence, The House of a Hundred Lights: A Psalm of Experience After Reading a Couplet of Bidpai, 1899 Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare There's no denying that the only real unhappiness in life is losing a man.... Death isn't nature's greatest mistake — falling in love is. If we didn't do that, all the misery in life would be cut right out of it. Oh my goodness, so would all the fun. So, what are you gonna do about it. ~When Ladies Meet, 1941 movie written by Rachel Crothers, John Meehan, Leon Gordon, S.K. Lauren, and Anita Loos, spoken by the character Bridgie Drake  (not sure if this is also in the 1933 movie or 1932 play — anyone know?) While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ~Rabindranath Tagore Life can be hard but if you've got somebody to love — yeah! ~Terri Guillemets Love is why I came here in the first place. ~John Denver Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Your love has gone all through my body like honey in water, as a drug is mixed into spices, as water is mingled with wine.... ~Author Unknown Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening. ~Alfred de Musset, The Confession of a Child of the Century/La Confession d'un enfant du siècle, 1836, Desgenais to Octave, translated from French by Kendall Warren Love is metaphysical gravity. ~R. Buckminster Fuller Love is my religion — I could die for it. ~John Keats It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ~Dan Greenburg Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls. ~Terri Guillemets Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. ~Author Unknown Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ~Author Unknown If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown No maths can entail love, lovers belong to infinity. ~Terri Guillemets A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive. ~Smiley Blanton, Love or Perish Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ~Henry Louis Mencken Love knows no answer for it does not question. ~Silent Lotus You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. ~Author Unknown True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall — but you are there to catch them. ~Author Unknown She thinks your lady-love will rule you as the moon rules the tides. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Thomas Merton Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~Julins Gordon And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time. ~D.H. Lawrence Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. ~Author Unknown No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Be it in the garden, the nursery or the bedroom, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com I am so tired — so tired. I see too many people, Read too many books. Do too many things. I hate the theaters, I hate my work, I want you, — only you.... Come to me between the cool sheets And let me burrow my head in your shoulder.... ~Pauline Cohn, "Rest" It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. ~Author Unknown I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me. ~Amanda Bynes Passion spins around love and I am dizzy around you always. ~Terri Guillemets When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray And he could glance at her continually as she bent over the fruit, while the level evening sunbeams stole through the thick apple-tree boughs and rested on her round cheek and neck as if they too were in love with her. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. ~Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you. ~Alfred Noyes, "The Outlaw," The Century Magazine, January 1912 Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ~Samuel Lover Romance is dead — it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ~Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. ~Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Love isn't blind, it's retarded. ~Don Foster and Susan Beavers, Two and a Half Men 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. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured. ~Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, Tried As By Fire; or, The True and the False, Socially. Everyone wants to be the sun that lifts up your life, but I'd rather be your moon, so I may shine on you during your darkest hour when the sun isn't around and the ghost white moonbeams will allow you to find comfort in my arms. ~Craig D. Slovak Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ~Miguel de Unamuno If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne May love touch every brutal soldier and every uncherished heart. ~Terri Guillemets I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ~Javan Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon  (Thanks, David) Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. ~Francesca M. Cancian What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Adrienne Grandi, as quoted in The Rockmart Journal(Rockmart, Georgia), May 27th 1992 (Thanks, Garson O'Toole ofquoteinvestigator.com!) It's hard to defeat a woman in love. ~Terri Guillemets Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~Aerosmith In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922 In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~Terri Guillemets The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ~G.K. Chesterton I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes My heart quotes your love for me, not in words but in heartbeats. ~Terri Guillemets Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ~George Bernard Shaw The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ~Edward Thomas [W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally