A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Love is being stupid together.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken
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.
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Love that is not madness is not love.
Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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.
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
The best proof of love is trust.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
There is no limit to the power of loving.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
There is only one terminal dignity - love.
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.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
When love is not madness, it is not love.
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Where there is love there is life.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
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.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.