- My love is a bird
- Happily singing on my shoulder
- Would you like to be the cage
- A sweet cage forever?
JINSONG GUO, Love Poems N' Quotes by Dr. Guo, "R U STill There?"
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Love: Quotes and Passages from the Heart (B.C. Aronson)
As your lover describes you, so you are.
JEANETTE WINTERSON, Sexing the Cherry
Call us what you will, we are made such by love.
JOHN DONNE, The Canonization
Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.
SANDRA BERNHARD, Parted Lips: Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages
I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.
Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!
MARIE CORELLI, The Master Christian
Love is the wild card of existence.
RITA MAE BROWN, In Her Day
I love the one who punishes me well.
ANNE RICE, Beauty's Release
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways. It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former, but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the latter, for man must battle for his fortress at every door and window. He who wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
WASHINGTON IRVING, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Love likes not the falling fruit,
- Nor the withered tree.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH, As Ye Came from the Holy Land
O, wicked love ... that has so many unnamed components.
ANNE RICE, Beauty's Punishment
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.
- We can die by it, if not live by love,
- And if unfit for tombs and hearse
- Our legend be, it will be fit for verse.
JOHN DONNE, The Canonization
True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.
WASHINGTON IRVING, "The Wife," The Sketch Book
Love is an anesthesia. It puts you to sleep, it allows you to overlook, not question, not care ... and then, one day, you come to. And, by God and all his horny angels ... it’s an eye opener.
ANN WUEHLER, The Next Mrs. Jacob Anderson
- 'Know that Love is a careless child,
- And forgets promises past;
- He is blind, he is deaf when he list,
- And in faith never fast.
- 'His desire is a dureless content,
- And a trustless joy;
- He is won with a world of despair,
- And is lost with a toy.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH, As Ye Came from the Holy Land
Love life's weariness leavens.
- Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
- Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNE, The Sun Rising
- My Love is of a birth as rare
- As 'tis, for object, strange and high;
- It was begotten by Despair,
- Upon Impossibility.
ANDREW MARVELL, The Definition of Love
- The flame of anger, bright and brief,
- Sharpens the barb of Love.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, Tell Me Not Things Past all Belief
The music that inspires the souls of lovers exists within themselves and the private universe they occupy. They share it with each other; they do not share it with the tribe or with society. The courage to hear that music and to honor it is one of the prerequisites of romantic love.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN, The Psychology of Romantic Love
The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.
JOEL OSTEEN, Become a Better You
If you believe yourself unfortunate, because you have "loved and lost," perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases, and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.
NAPOLEON HILL, Think and Grow Rich
Love, how many roads to reach a kiss.
PABLO NERUDA, Love, How many Roads to Reach a Kiss
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