Love Quotes
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
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.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
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.
Love is not selfish.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
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.
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.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
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.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
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.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
A simple I love you means more than money.
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.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Love is friendship set to music
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
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.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
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.
Union gives strength.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
If you love someone, set them free.
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.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
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.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
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.
My heart is ever at your service.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.