“I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.” ~ Javan

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” ~ Jean Anouilh

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.” ~ John Bulwer

“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 why I came here in the first place.” ~ John Denver

“Love is my religion – I could die for it.” ~ John Keats

“Love is real, real is love.” ~ John Lennon

“So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.” ~ John Milton

“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure

“Love is a friendship set to music.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” ~ Francois VI de la Rochefoucault

“A baby is born with a need to be loved — and never outgrows it.” ~ Frank A. Clark

“Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.” ~ French Proverb

“Love is not consolation. It is light.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” ~ G.K. Chesterton

“And now we’re apart and you’re just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.” ~ George Eliot

“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

“Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.” ~ Germaine Greer

“A heart that loves is always young.” ~ Greek Proverb

“In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.” ~ Hans Nouwens

“Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.” ~ Hawkeye (MASH)

“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.” ~ Henry Louis Mencken

“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” ~ Henry Miller

“Ah me! why may not love and life be one?” ~ Henry Timrod

“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

“Everyone wants to be the sun that lifts up your life, but I’d rather be your moon, so I may shine on you during your

“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief

“And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never

“Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.” ~ Dan Greenburg

“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.”

“Love is staying up all night with a sick child or a healthy adult.” ~ David Frost

“Love me and the world is mine.” ~ David Reed

“People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.” ~ Douglas Yates

“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe

“The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.” ~ Edward Thomas

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” ~ Elinor Glyn

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” ~ Emily Bronte

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” ~ Erich Fromm

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” ~ Erich Segal

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” ~ Eva Gabor

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole

“We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” ~ Francois VI de la Rochefoucault