Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. —– Henry David Thoreau
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. —– Laurence Marks
A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it. —– Frank A. Clark
Shall we compare our hearts to a garden – with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds, swooping birds and sunshine, rain – and most importantly, seeds. —– Grey Livingston
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
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. —– Fran�ois Duc de La Rochefo
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 ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. —– Alexandra Penney
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
A bell is no bell ’til you ring it, A song is no song ’til you sing it, And love in your heart Wasn’t put there to stay – Love isn’t love ‘Til you give it away. —– Oscar Hammerstein
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. —– Swedish Proverb
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. —– Henry Van Dyke
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. —– Judith Viorst
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. —– Ice T
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. —– Lord Dewar
When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. —– Natalie Clifford Barney
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. —– John Bulwer
‘Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. —– Lord Byron
A hundred hearts would be too few To carry all my love for you. —– Anonymous
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. —– Anonymous
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. —– Lynda Barry
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. —– Oscar Wilde
Love is not singular except in syllable. —– Marvin Taylor
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. —– John Ciardi
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. —– Douglas Yates
Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. —– Hannah Moore
Ah me! why may not love and life be one? —– Henry Timrod
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. —– Robert Browning
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. —– Leo Tolstoy
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. —– Marguerite de Valois
You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from. —– Werner Erhard
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. —– Mignon McLaughlin
Love me and the world is mine. —– David Reed
It would be impossible to “love” anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. —– Paul Val�ry
The love game is never called off on account of darkness. —– Tom Masson
They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there’s moonlight all about and no moon above. —– Anonymous
Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. —– David Byrne
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. —– Robert Frost
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. —– Zora Neale Hurston
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. —– Emily Bront�
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. —– Mignon McLaughlin
An old man in love is like a flower in winter. —– Portuguese Proverb
Will you love me in December as you do in May, Will you love me in the good old fashioned way? When my hair has all turned gray, Will you kiss me then and say, That you love me in December as you do in May? —– James J. Walker
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before. —– Mignon McLaughlin
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. —– Honor� de Balzac
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. —– Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love is the poetry of the senses. —– Honor� de Balzac
Love is a game that two can play and both win. —– Eva Gabor
Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. —– Anonymous
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite’s dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. —– Francis Quarles
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. —– Paul-Jean Toulet
We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. —– Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. —– Mignon McLaughlin
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. —– Fran�ois, duc de La Rochef
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can’t. —– Mignon McLaughlin
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. —– George Herbert
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what’s missing. —– Mignon McLaughlin
Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. —– Christopher Paul Rubero
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. —– Latin Proverb
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. —– Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry
I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day’s great sun. —– Charles Hanson Towne
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. —– Nicholas de Chamfort
Love is not consolation. It is light. —– Friedrich Nietzsche
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. —– Erich Segal
Loving is never a waste of time. —– Astrid Alauda
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. —– Fyodor Dostoevski
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. —– William Butler Yeats
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. —– Mignon McLaughlin
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. —– Anonymous
Love is being stupid together. —– Paul Valery
In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. —– Charles Baudelaire
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