Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
ERICH FROMM, The Art of Loving
- Love is a sickness full of woes,
- All remedies refusing:
- A plant that with most cutting grows,
- Most barren with best using.
SAMUEL DANIEL, Hymen's Triumph
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Barchester Towers
- One word
- Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
- That word is love.
SOPHOCLES, Oedipus at Colonus
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain
Love. My golly, it sells diapers, don't it!
DAVID MAMET, Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues
Love is a kind of warfare.
- The world has little to bestow
- Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD, Delia
Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.
SEAN O'FAOLAIN, Saturday Evening Post, Aug. 13, 1966
There is no evil angel but Love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
- Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
- Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
- Never met -- or never parted,
- We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
ROBERT BURNS, Ae Fond Kiss
No wound is worse than counterfeited love.
God is Love, I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.
SAMUEL BUTLER, Note Books
Love between a man and woman is war.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Father
- Come live with me and be my love,
- And we will some new pleasure prove
- Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
- With silken lines, and silver hooks.
JOHN DONNE, The Bait
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
- He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows
- All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.
ELSA BARKER, He Who Knows Love
All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR, The Merle and the Nightingale
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
ANATOLE FRANCE, The Garden of Epicurus
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone—but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
BETTE DAVIS, The Lonely Life
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.
THE BEATLES, I'm Looking Through You
When love grows diseas'd, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a ling'ring and consumptive passion.
GEORGE ETHEREGE, The Man of Mode
Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.
KRISTIN ARMSTRONG, O Magazine, Feb. 2007
When does love cease? When one begins to love anew.
LAURA ESQUIVEL, The Law of Love
- It is love that I am seeking for,
- But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind
- That is not in the world.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Shadowy Waters
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
O. HENRY, "The Count and the Wedding Guest"
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and Church-begotten weed, marriage?
EMMA GOLDMAN, Anarchism and Other Essays
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Hero and Leander
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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