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Love Quotes

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Benjamin Disraeli

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charlie Brown

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Goethe

Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love

Makaino Kouji

This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

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

Peter Ustinov

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Nikki Giovanni

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.

Jane Austen

I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.

William Shakespeare

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.

John Keats

Love is not selfish.

Corinthians

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Judy Garland

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker

Love like there is no tomorrow.

Unknown

I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.

Carl Sandburg

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.

Oscar Wilde

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.

Mary Parrish

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.

William S. Burroughs

O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.

Rumi

Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

W. Stanley Mooneyham

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

Rumi

Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.

William Blake

Love is a moment that lasts forever.

Julie Wittey

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Morrie Schwarz

This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Muriel Spark

Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.

Khalil Gibran

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen

A woman who is loved always has success.

Vicki Baum

Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.

Ben Oliver

Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.

Virgil

Love, two minds without a single thought.

Philip Barry

There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

Nicholas Sparks

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

La Bruyere

You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.

David Levesque

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.

Anzia Yezierska

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Anonymous

A simple I love you means more than money.

Frank Sinatra

Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

Mother Theresa

What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.

Robin St. John

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Somerset Maugham

Love is when reality is better than your dreams.

Becky Graham

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Sandy Wilson

I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Mark Twain

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Orlando Battista

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Margaret Anderson

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

John Bulwer

Love is friendship set to music

E. Joseph Cossman

All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.

Japanese Proverb

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.

UB40

I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Louis Aragon

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Francois Mauriac

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

Union gives strength.

Aesop

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.

William Shakespeare

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E.E. Cummings

If you love someone, set them free.

Sting

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.

Ivan Panin

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

Kim Wilde

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

Carlos Castaneda

Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.

Collin McCarty

It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.

Mallory Jones

We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.

Benjamin Disraeli

The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Anne Dillard

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Unknown

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Sarah Bernhardt

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.

Alfred Adler

My heart is ever at your service.

Shakespeare

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell