The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~Mother Teresa
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
~Brendan Francis
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
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
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
~W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
~Laurence Marks
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
~Frank A. Clark
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
~Robert Heinlein
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 and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
~George Moore
We loved with a love that was more than love.
~Edgar Allan Poe
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
~Mignon McLaughlin
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
~Jessie B. Rittenhouse
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
~Mignon McLaughlin
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
~Alexandra Penney in Self
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
~Jean Anouilh
When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
~Bill Balance
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
~Rose Franken
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.
~Anonymous
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
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
~Cher
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
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
~Robert Browning
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
~William Shakespeare
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
~Leo Tolstoy
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
~Marguerite de Valois
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
~Mother Teresa
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
~Natalie Clifford Barney
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
~Rabindranath Tagore
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
~John Bulwer
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.
~Proverb
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
~Theodor Reik
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
~Peter Ustinov
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
~Mignon McLaughlin