Love
"A woman's love is a man's privilege and not his right."
-Terry Macmillan
"Love is a great beautifier."
--Louisa May Allcott
"Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference."
--Libbie Fudim
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligience nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love that is the soul of genius."
--Mozart
"The cries of Hate are as loud as drums untamed as the sky above; But among these raging cries you can hear the whisper of Love."
--Margaret Classe
"/Please don't say I love you,/those words touch me much to deeply/and they make my core tremble/Don't think you realize the power you have over me./"
--Jewel
Relationships are hard. It's like a full-time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay and before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp.
--Bob Ettinger
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
--St. Augustine
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible."
--Elizabeth Barret Browning
"Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one -- neglect."
--James D. Bryden
"I love you
Not only for what you are
But for what I am
When I am with you.
--Roy Croft
"Where there is love there is life."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?"
--Oscar Hammerstein, II
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
--Katharine Hepburn
"You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else."
--Hermann Hesse
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
--Franklin P. Jones
"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess."
--H.L. Mencken
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
--Anais Nin
"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be."
--Rumi
"Where there is love, there is pain."
--Spanish proverb
"Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
--Rose Walker
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
--Elie Wiesel
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady make note of this:
One of you is lying.
--Dorothy Parker
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and Sunday rest.
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
--W. H. Auden
"Love is a grave mental disease."
-- Plato
"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
--Francis Bacon
"O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!"
--Thomas Dekker
"It is with true love as it is with ghosts;
everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."
--La Rochefoucauld
"All's fair in love and war."
--Francis Edward Smedley
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love."
--Sophocles
"The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially
acknowledged reality."
--Ashely Montagu
"The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing --- and
then they marry him."
--Cher
"You know a heart can be broken but it keeps on beating just the same."
--Fannie Flagg
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
--Marcus Aurelius
"Love and stoplights can be cruel."
--Sesame Street
"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."
--Mme de Staël
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
--Tom Robbins
Infatuation is when you think that 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 Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.
- -Judith Viorst
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
"If you like, analyze why certain people end up with certain other people it'll make you want to kill yourself."
--"Brian Krakow" My So-Called Life
These foolish games are tearing me apart/ Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart/ You're breaking my heart/.../Excuse me, think I've mistaken you for somebody else/ Somebody who gave a damn/ Somebody more like myself.
--Jewel
/Don't walk to close/ Don't breathe so soft/ Don't talk so sweet/ Don't sing/.../ Please let me forget
--Jewel
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
--Woody Allen
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
--W. H. Auden
Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
--Rabbi Julins Gordon
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
--H. L. Mencken
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
--John Donne
"The supreme happiness of life is the convinction that we are loved."
--Victor Hugo
"It is impossible to love and be wise."
--Francis Bacon
"Love is blind."
--Chaucer
"There's a smile in my heart that I've waited my whole life for."
--Shyla
Within you, I lose myself.
Without you, I find myself.
Searching to be lost again.
--Unknown
COMMENT
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.
--Dorothy Parker
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
- -Anon
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
- -H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion."
- -Javan
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
--David Grayson
"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
--Charles Augustin Sainte Beauve
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love
and affection."
--Buddha
"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
--Henry Drummond
Some people never say the words 'I love you'
It's not their style to be so bold;
Some people never say those words: 'I love you'
But, like a child, they're longing to be told.
--Paul Simon
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
--Walter S. Landor
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
--Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
--Joey Adams
"Love is friendship that has caught fire."
--Ann Landers
"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."
--Quentin Crisp
"Love isn't love 'till you give it away"
--Michael W. Smith
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
--I Corinthians 13:4-8a
"From the moment he looked me in my eyes and saw what no one else did, I loved him."
--Brianne
"For some, true love is blind, for others, blind love is true..."
--Unknown
"I love you. And not in a friendly way, although I think we're great friends. And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I'm sure that's what you'll call it. And it's not because you're unattainable. I love you. Very simple, very truly. You're the epitome of every attribute and quality I've ever looked for in another person. I know you think of me as just a friend, and crossing
that line is the furthest thing from an option you'd ever consider. But I had to say it. I can't take this anymore. I can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you. I can't look into your eyes without feeling that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels. I can't talk to you without wanting
to express my love for everything you are. I know this will probably queer our friendship--no pun intended--but I had to say it, because I've never felt this before, and I like who I am because of it. And if bringing it to light means we can't hang out anymore, then that hurts me. But I couldn't allow another day to go by without getting it out there, regardless of the outcome, which by the look on your face is to be the inevitable shoot-down. And I'll accept that. But I know some part of you is hesitating for a moment, and if there is a moment of hesitiation, that means you feel something too. All I ask is that you not dismiss that--at least for ten seconds--and try to dwell in it. Alyssa, there
isn't another soul on this fucking planet who's ever made me half the person I am when I'm with you, and I would risk this friendship for the chance to take it to the next plateau. Because it's there between you and me. You can't deny that. And even if we never speak again after tonight, please know that I'm forever changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me, which--while I do appreciate it--I'd never need a painting of birds bought at a diner to remind me of."
--Kevin Smith
"Oh.-- I just today remembered/ How your hand/ Fits the curve of my waist/ And how your smile/ Fits the curve of my mind."
--Juliana Shortell
"Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart."
--Angela on My So-Called Life
"The greatest pain that comes from love, is loving someone you can never have"
--Unknown
People don't fall in love with each other, they just fall in love. My advice is just don't fall into one alone. It's devastating. It wells in you, and there is no outlet. No place for it to go. It aches, it aches."
--Unknown
"If I had never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do and I will."
--unknown
"Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever."
--Unknown
Maybe I'm a little young to love,
Maybe I'm a little old to cry,
I don't know.
Maybe I'm a little weak to dance,
Maybe I'm a little strong to die.
I don't know.
--Over the Rhine
"The hardest part of love is letting go."
--Michael W. Smith
"I need you. I don't know why but every now and then in my life, for no reason at all, I need you."
--Sarah
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
--unknown
"I chose to be with you, if the choice were mine to make. You can make decisions too, and you can have this heart to break."
--unknown
"I guess I must be wishing on someone else's star, because everyone else keeps getting what I'm wishing for."
-Unknown
"Goodbyes will always hurt, pictures will never replace being there, thanks is a feeble word, words can never replace feelings."
-Unknown
"People so seldom say I love you and then it's either too late or the moment goes. So when I tell you I love you, it doesn't mean I know you'll never go, only that I wish you didn't have to."
-Unknown
"Do all lovers feel helpless valient in the presence of the
beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away.
Valient because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if
you had to."
--Jeanette Winterson
"And, by the way, how is my heart? I haven't seen it since you
left."
--John Gorka
"You don't love anything? ... Then stop breathing."
--Valentine, from Red
"So you can make me cum that doesn't make you Jesus"
--Tori Amos
"When you gonna love you as much as I do?"
--Tori Amos
"All day long she fills me up with dogma / she's all magazines and benzedrine
/ and vodka / There was one man she truly loved / he took everything but her
bearskin rug / And now and then / it's clear to me / that need is love / and
love is need"
--Sheryl Crow
"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no
fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all
else has fallen."
--Unknown
"Once someone touches your heart, the fingerprints last forever."
--Unknown
"...I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast
her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from
her...I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor
little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to
know how to love her..."
--Antione de Saint Exupery
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to
love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are
written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which
cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the
point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will
then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into
the answer."
--Rainer Maria Rilke
"I wish I could fall in love
Though it only leads to trouble, oh I know it does.
Still I'd fool myself and gladly just to feel I was
In love, in love."
--Cheryl Wheeler
And when somebody knows you well
Well, there's no comfort like that
And when somebody needs you
Well, there's no drug like that"
--Heather Nova
"Can't forget the things you never said."
--Tori Amos
"The meaning of life? That's easy. The meaning of life is: to be
happy, try not to hurt other people and hope that you fall in
love."
--Mallory Keaton
"Love is either madness or nothing at all."
--Milan Kundera
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart
whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a
lover, everyone becomes a poet."
--Plato
"Oh, now there's only one kind of love that lasts. That's
unrequited love. It stays with you forever."
--Woody Allen
"If you really love someone it shouldn't matter what's been in their
orifices."
--Anonymous Roommate
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the
strings remain forever."
--Bache
"...not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have
perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the
lack of it."
--James Baldwin
"you were my best friend/ you were my lover/ you were my mentor.../you were my keeper/ you were my anchor/ you were my family/ you were my saviour/ and therein lay the issue/ and therein lay the problem..."
--A.M.
"When her laughter first unfurled its wings into the wind, we knew
the world would never be the same"
--Brian Andreas
"The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to
the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and
stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until
the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We
think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the
time before."
--Erica Jong
"Love is like energy. It can never be created nor destroyed...it is just always there. You just have to realize that fact and you have to learn that as soon as you stopped loving him in the way you did that love left to somewhere else. Now all you have to do is find out where that love went. That love went to whoever the next person in your life will be. That next person could be one of your friends or someone you might dislike, you just have to find that out."
--Ian Philpot
"out of the blue/ you waltz back into my heart/ when I'm just about/over you,/ you tear me apart./ with your smooth-talking words/ and promises from yesterday./ with the sound of your voice/ and the things that you say./ I just want to warn you,/ give you a notice,/ I just want to say:/ I hope that you mean it./ for I've loved you too long/ to get none in return./ I've loved you too long/ and the pain in me burns./ so please just remember/ the next time that you talk:/ my heart's made of glass/ and love's lies only rock./ it's fragile, you see,/ easily broken./and the false-mask of love,/ easily spoken./ so be sure what you mean,/and mean what you say,/ and hopefully/ truth/ is all you'llconvey."
--Danielle
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers
back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover,
everyone becomes a poet."
--Plato
"True spirit is loving life and not caring who knows or what they have to say about it."
--J. Silgals