There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Love is a many splendered thing.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Our love is here to stay.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Love is the only rational act.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Love is something eternal.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Love knows no bounds.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.