Quotes on Love

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

A useless life is an early death.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.

Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.