Ah, Love

Some worthwhile, as well as rediculous, as well as poignant, thoughts on love from others.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.  ~Adrienne Rich

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.  ~Charlie Brown

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


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!  ~Sandra J. Dykes


Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.  ~Mark Overby

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.  ~Peter Ustinov

 

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.  ~Albert Ellis


Love one another and you will be happy.  It's as simple and as difficult as that.  ~Michael Leunig

Who, being loved, is poor?  ~Oscar Wilde


Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.  ~Henry David Thoreau


Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.  ~Laurence Marks


Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain -
and most importantly, seeds.
~Grey Livingston


Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.  ~Robert Heinlein

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, The Neurotic's Notebook

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

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.  ~Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self


Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.  ~Jean Anouilh

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.  ~Rose Franken


Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.  ~Ben Hecht


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen"

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.  ~Swedish Proverb


Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.  ~Henry Van Dyke

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

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.  ~Lord Byron


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


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.  ~Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer


Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.  ~Lynda Barry

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.  ~Ursula K. LeGuin


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

Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.  ~Hannah Moore

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.  ~Lamartine


Ah me! why may not love and life be one?  ~Henry Timrod


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


Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.  ~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"

Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too.  ~Author Unknown


Love me and the world is mine.  ~David Reed


The love game is never called off on account of darkness.  ~Tom Masson

An old man in love is like a flower in winter.  ~Portuguese Proverb


Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?
~James J. Walker


Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.  ~Mignon McLaughlin

Great love affairs start with champagne and end with tisane.  ~Honoré de Balzac


Love is the poetry of the senses.  ~Honoré de Balzac


Love is a game that two can play and both win.  ~Eva Gabor


Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.  ~Author Unknown


The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters.  It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.  ~Francis Quarles, Emblems


We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.  ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism


It's hard to defeat a woman in love.  ~Destin Figuier


Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.  ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.  ~Mignon McLaughlin

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.  ~Christopher Paul Rubero


A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.  ~Latin Proverb


The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail


I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne


A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.  ~Nicholas de Chamfort


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.  If you hear bells, get your ears checked.  ~Erich Segal


Loving is never a waste of time.  ~Astrid Alauda


True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.  ~William Butler Yeats


You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.  ~Author Unknown


Love is being stupid together.  ~Paul Valery


Open your heart and take us in,
Love - love and me.
~W.E. Henley


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

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.  ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670


At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.  ~Plato


As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.  ~William Shakespeare

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


Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.  ~French Proverb


True love stories never have endings.  ~Richard Bach


I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


There's nothing more freeing than the shackles of love.  ~Emma Racine deFleur

When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match.  ~ Sleepless in Seattle


Platonic love is love from the neck up.  ~Thyra Smater Winsolow


We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.  ~Tom Robbins

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise.  This is true of men as of dogs.  ~Eric Hoffer

You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it.  But if you mean it, you should say it a lot.  People forget.  ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica

Ah! a blessing beyond all fate
My sole mate 'tis my soul mate.~Pixie Foudre

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down.  That's the thing about girls.  Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945


Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life.  ~Author Unknown

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.  ~Author Unknown


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?  ~Author Unknown


 

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.  ~Author Unknown

 

Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.  ~Author Unknown


Love is not blind - it sees more, not less.  But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.  ~Julins Gordon


To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.  ~Author Unknown

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.  ~Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons

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


I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.  ~Javan


Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.  ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon

In springtime, love is carried on the breeze.  Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head.  ~Emma Racine deFleur


The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.  ~G.K. Chesterton


I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.  If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.  ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

The Oriole weds his mottled mate,
The Lily weds the bee;
Heaven's marriage ring is round the earth,
Let me bind thee?
~Author Unknown

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.  ~Edward Thomas

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together?  I guess that wouldn't work.  Someone would leave.  Someone always leaves.  Then we would have to say good-bye.  I hate good-byes.  I know what I need.  I need more hellos.  ~Charles M. Schulz



When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.  ~ When Harry Met Sally