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

“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.” ~ Honore de Balzac

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

“Love is the poetry of the senses.” ~ Honore de Balzac

“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.”

“Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.” ~ Ice T

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

“I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” ~ Antoine

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.