Love is the answer, but while you're
waiting for the answer, sex raises
some pretty interesting questions.
?Woody Allen
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have
no answers anymore?only the life I have lived?
The pain now is part of the happiness (then).
?Anthony Hopkins
The two most misused words in the entire
English vocabulary are love and friendship.
A true friend would die for you, so when
you start counting them on one hand,
you don't need many fingers.
?Larry Flynt
In this world of extremes,
we can only love too little.
?Rich Cannarella
You were made perfectly to be loved -
and surely I have loved you,
in the idea of you, my whole life long.
?Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings
of our lives, they should also govern it.
?Wilhelm Reich
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
?Mother Theresa
Love. What is love? No one can define
it, its something so great, only God
could design it. Yes, love is beyond,
what man can define, for love is
immortal, and God's gift is divine.
?Unknown
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
There is only one sort of love, but
there are a thousand copies.
?François de La Rochefoucauld
All mankind loves a lover.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is a canvas furnished by nature
and embroidered by imagination.
?Voltaire
If there is anything better than
to be loved it is loving.
?Anonymous
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
?John Donne
To love is to place our happiness
in the happiness of another.
?Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
A coward is incapable of exhibiting
love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
?Mahatma Gandhi
The way to love anything is to
realize that it might be lost.
?Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love's like the measles, all
the worse when it comes late.
?Douglas Jerrold
I love a hand that meets my own with
a grasp that causes some sensation.
?Samuel Osgood
He that falls in love with himself
will have no rivals.
?Benjamin Franklin
First love is only a little foolishness and
a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting
woman would take advantage of it.
?George Bernard Shaw
I never knew how to worship
until I knew how to love.
?Henry Ward Beecher
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
?Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a land of the living and a land
of the dead and the bridge is love,
the only survival, the only meaning.
?Thornton Wilder
Love: the delusion that one
woman differs from another.
?H. L. Mencken
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
?Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love does not consist in gazing at
each other but in looking outward
together in the same direction.
?Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If love is shelter, I'm going
to walk in the rain.
?Unknown.
Gravity is not responsible
for people falling in love.
?Albert Einstein
The one who loves least controls the relationship.
?Anonymous.
The most dangerous food is a wedding cake.
?Proverb
The woman cries before he wedding, the man after.
?Proverb
Love lessens a woman's delicacy
and increases a man's.
?La Bruyere
Love is a great beautifier.
?Louisa May Alcott
Among those whom I like or admire,
I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can:
all of them make me laugh.
?WH Auden
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
?Bible Song of Solomon 8:7
Who so loves believes the impossible.
?Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When you love someone all your
saved-up wishes start coming out.
?Elizabeth Bowen
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes,
sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely
with another; turns a third into ice, and sets
a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another
it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in
the same moment: it makes that fort yield at
night which it besieged but in the morning;
for there is no force able to resist it.
?Miguel de Cervantes
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in
love there is a sort of antipathy, or
opposing passion. Each strives to be the other,
and both together make up one whole.
?Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead;
It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
?Pierre Corneille
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings
with those whom we do not like and once you
understand that, you understand all. This idea
that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is
but a polite manifestation of sex. To love
another you have to undertake
some fragment of their destiny.
?Quentin Crisp
Love is not enough. It must be
the foundation, the cornerstone-
but not the complete structure. It is
much too pliable, too yielding.
?Bette Davis
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment,
Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
?Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
Unable are the loved to die
for love is immortality.
?Emily Dickinson
Love, with very young people, is a
heartless business. We drink at that age
from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later
in life that we occupy ourselves
with the individuality of our wine.
?Isak Dinesen
Love won't be tampered with, love
won't go away. Push it to one
side and it creeps to the other.
?Louise Erdrich
Love must not touch the marrow
of the soul. Our affections must
be breakable chains that we can
cast them off or tighten them.
?Euripides
Love makes the time pass.
Time makes love pass.
?French proverb
Love is union with somebody, or something,
outside oneself, under the condition of retaining
the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
?Erich Fromm
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise,
which is started out with such tremendous
hopes and expectations, and yet
which fails so regularly, as love.
?Erich Fromm
Today I begin to understand what love must be,
if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel
the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are
incomplete like a book in two volumes of which
the first has been lost. That is what I imagine
love to be: incompleteness in absence.
?Goncourt
The love we give away is
the only love we keep.
?Elbert Hubbard
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity,
if you can't look back on having given love and attention
to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
?Anonymous
Do you want me to tell you something really
subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to
be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . .
It really is worth fighting for, being brave for,
risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you
don't risk anything, you risk even more.
?Erica Jong
True love is like ghosts, which everybody
talks about and few have seen.
?François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
To a person in love, the value of the
individual is intuitively known.
Love needs no logic for its mission.
?Charles A. Lindbergh
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.
?Thomas Mann
We don't love qualities, we love persons;
sometimes by reason of their defects
as well as of their qualities.
?Jacques Maritain
We are not the same persons this year as last;
nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we,
changing, continue to love a changed person.
?W. Somerset Maugham
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
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for
the species of woman in whose company he finds
himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in
whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
?George Jean Nathan
There is always some madness in love. But
there is also always some reason in madness.
?Friedrich Nietzsche
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying
and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
?PJ O'Rourke
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you
fight and resist him, Easy-going enough
once you acknowledge his power.
?Ovid
We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must
always love something. In those matters
seemingly removed from love, the feeling is
secretly to be found, and man cannot
possibly live for a moment without it.
?Blaise Pascal
Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
?Alexander Pope
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking
the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
?Helen Rowland
Love is something far more than desire for
sexual intercourse; it is the principal means
of escape from the loneliness which afflicts
most men and women throughout
the greater part of their lives.
?Bertrand Russell
Many people when they fall in love look for
a little haven of refuge from the world,
where they can be sure of being admired
when they are not admirable, and praised
when they are not praiseworthy.
?Bertrand Russell
Life has taught us that love does not
consist in gazing at each other but in looking
outward together in the same direction.
?Antoine de Saint Éxupéry
Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.
?William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
?William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
?William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
?William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
?William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not show their love.
?William Shakespeare
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
?Madame De Staël
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
?Lord Tennyson
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
?Henry David Thoreau
If so many men, so many minds,
certainly so many hearts,
so many kinds of love.
?Leo Tolstoy
Love has features which pierce all hearts,
he wears a bandage which conceals the
faults of those beloved. He has wings, he
comes quickly and flies away the same.
?Voltaire
Fantasy love is much better than reality love.
Never doing it is very exciting.
The most exciting attractions are between
two opposites that never meet.
?Andy Warhol
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 is what we were born with.
Fear is what we learned here.
?Marianne Williamson
A man falls in love through his
eyes, a woman through her ears.
?Woodrow Wyatt
In dreams and in love there
are no impossibilities.
?Janos Arany
I have you. A lover and a friend.
You are everything I need. You are the sun,
the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't
be the same. Please don't ever go away.
And if you go, then
don't forget to take me with you.
?Basia, Reward
After another moment's silence,
she mumbled that I was peculiar,
that that was probably why she loved me
but that one day I might disgust
her for the very same reason.
?Albert Camus
Once in awhile, right in the middle of an
ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
?Unknown
We come to love not by finding a
perfect person, but by learning to see
an imperfect person perfectly.
?Sam Keen
