Love Quotes

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

They say love is around every corner. I must be walking in circles.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.