Love Quotations

"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
-Anon.

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
-Willa Cather

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."
-Victor Hugo

"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, / Romeo? / Deny thy father, and refuse thy name..."
-William Shakespeare

"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

"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never really was in the first place."
-Anon.

"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

"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
-Victor Hugo

"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
-Anna Louise Strong

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
-Anon.

"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature."
-Stephen Stills

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
-James Baldwin

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
-Erich Segal

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

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
-Bertrand Russell

"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
-Anais Nin

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
-Erich Fromm

"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection."
-Sidney Poitier

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

"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence."
-Albert Ellis

"The best proof of love is trust."
-Joyce Brothers

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."
-Nan Fairbrother

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
-Oscar Wilde

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and now we cannot live within."
-James Baldwin

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."
-Leo Buscaglia