Love Quotes 2

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. 

~John Bulwer

This is sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

~Lord Byron


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.

~Author Unknown


Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. 

~Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer


Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. 

~Lynda Barry


Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. 

~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. 

~Ursula K. Le Guin


Love is not singular except in syllable. 

~Marvin Taylor


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


People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. 

~Douglas Yates


Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. 

~Hannah More (Thanks, Steven)


The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us. 

~Terri Guillemets


Ah me! why may not love and life be one? 

~Henry Timrod


Take away love and our earth is a tomb. 

~Robert Browning


Love is not love which alters when it finds alteration. 

~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"

Love Quotes

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. 

~Mother Teresa


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein


There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.  It is God's finger on man's shoulder. 

~Charles Morgan


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 they won't laugh if you trip.

 ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. 

~Ovid


Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. 

~Eric Fromm


Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.  To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.  To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. 

~Kahlil Gibran


Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.  Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. 

~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

 ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949


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-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


When love is not madness, it is not love. 

~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. 

~Malagasy Proverb


Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! 

~Sandra J. Dykes


Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. 

~Mark Overby


Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. 

 ~Author Unknown


Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. 

 ~Author Unknown