Love is not consolation, it is light. Simone Weil
Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it. Leon Bloy
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking. Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perfect love means to love the one through whom one became unhappy. Soren Kierkegaard
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. Benjamin Disraeli
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. G K Chesterton
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. Terence.
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. Anita Brookner
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone – but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. Bette Davis
The moods of love are like the wind,
And none knows whence or why they rise.
Coventry Patmore
Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady, intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof. Samuel Richardson
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke
Everybody longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is let somebody know that they are loved and capable of loving. Fred Rogers
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low. Henry Ward Beecher
The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert G Hubbard
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
We can do no great things; only small things with great love. Mother Teresa
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. Henry Miller
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. Nancy Mitford
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. Martin Luther King, Jr
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair. William Blake
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion to a great rooted tree. Surviving all vicissitudes, and rich with its manifold branches, every leaf holding its own significance. Vita Sackville-West
Love is indestructible. It’s holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth. Robert Southey
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. Boris Pasternak
Let no one who loves be called unhappy
Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
J M Barrie
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. John Dryden
Give me love and work – these two only. William Morris
You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love. Henry Drummond
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. Saint Augustine
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens
A man is only as good as what he loves. Saul Bellow
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. Thomas Wolfe
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Henry Fielding
Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott
Love’s like the measles – all the worse when it comes late in life. Douglas Jerrold
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless. Thomas a Kempis
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Nelson Mandela
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. Jacques Maritain
We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch
My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given.
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven.
Sir Philip Sidney
Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate’s or children’s egos than your own. You’re now a giver instead of a taker. Sylvester Stallone
When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally, somewhere, who was helping. Paul Gallico
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you’. Erich Fromm
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. Muriel Spark
Things are beautiful if you love them. Jean Anouilh
We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens. Brooks Atkinson
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love. John Steinbeck
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. William Makepeace Thackeray
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. Sigmund Freud
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. W E Gladstone
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go. Kingsley Amis
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. Maurice Chevalier
Heaven Hath no rage like a love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve
Love has no age, no limit; and no death. John Galsworthy
Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. Erich Fromm
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. Amelia E Barr
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. Aphra Behn
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. Jorge Luis Borges