- True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
Torquato Tasso
- Love without conversation is impossible.
Mortimer Adler
- Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandburg
- Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
- We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir
- To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Petrarch
- Love is energy of life.
Robert Browning
- Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
John Galsworthy
- Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
- Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
- Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.
Dwight L. Moody
- A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Muller
- We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe
- Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell
- Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia
- Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
- A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
- To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’
Ayn Rand
- Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
Javan
- Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
- Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
Billie Holiday
- I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
Nicholas Sparks
- Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel Proust
- There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Alphonse de Lamartine

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Alphonse de Lamartine
- If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Samuel Beckett
- The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
- Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Thornton Wilder
- There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.
Charles Morgan
- All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton
- In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Marc Chagall
- Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover
- We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch
- Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
Armistead Maupin
- Though lovers be lost, love shall not.
Dylan Thomas
- Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson
- Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Thomas a Kempis
- The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
- Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore
- Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Theodor W. Adorno
- You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Stevenson
- Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor
- We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins
- Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- This love is silent.
T. S. Eliot
- Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Fuller
- The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
- Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
Gilbert Parker
- Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
- To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Theophile Gautier
- Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso