Quotes on Love

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

I have a strong will to love you for eternity.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house. [...] A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.