- We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Cyril Connolly
- Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal
- If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin
- Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
William Blake
- Love is the only gold.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
- Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
Torquato Tasso
- Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
Mortimer Adler
- A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal
- Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
- When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
- If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Khalil Gibran
- In every living thing there is the desire for love.
D. H. Lawrence
- Love is love’s reward.
John Dryden
- At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
- Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein
- The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
John Henry Newman
- The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
John Cheever
- Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
- There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
- One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
Karl A. Menninger
- Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu
- We are born of love; Love is our mother.
Rumi
- I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey Hepburn
- Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
- Love is my religion – I could die for it.
John Keats
- Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Francis of Assisi
- Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
- The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
- Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
- One must not trifle with love.
Alfred de Musset
- Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
- In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm
- Only do what your heart tells you.
Princess Diana
- If you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
Bryant H. McGill
- Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas
- The ear is the avenue to the heart.
Voltaire
- Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
John Wooden
- You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
- Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James M. Barrie
- To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
- There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Thomas Fuller
- Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
- To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
Francois Rabelais
- Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham