Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. - Joseph Conrad

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. - J. D. Salinger

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

There is only one terminal dignity - love. - Helen Hayes

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 Edward Moore

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. - William Shakespeare

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. - Andre Breton

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. - Judy Garland

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. - Thomas Carlyle

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. - C. S. Lewis

Love is the beauty of the soul. - Saint Augustine

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. - Andre Breton

Love is being stupid together. - Paul Valery

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. - George Jean Nathan

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. - Erich Fromm

Love is love's reward. - John Dryden

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. - Javan

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. - Theodore Dreiser

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo

All mankind love a lover. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. - Michel de Montaigne

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. - Robert Browning

Love is the flower you've got to let grow. - John Lennon

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. - Rita Rudner

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. - Ferdinand Foch

Where there is love there is life. - Mohandas Gandhi

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. - Werner Erhard

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. - Samuel Lover

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

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. - Loretta Young

There is no limit to the power of loving. - John Morton

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. - Boethius

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. - Charles Caleb Colton

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. - Leo Buscaglia

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. - Daniel S. Greenberg

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. - Emily Bronte

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. - H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. - Gwendolyn Brooks

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

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving. - Edwin Louis Cole