How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. – Barbara Pym
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’ – Erich Fromm
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. – Mother Teresa
I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. – Roy Croft
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. – Victor Hugo Les Miserables, Volume IV.
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. 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 Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye.
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? – Albert Einstein
I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes – James Joyce Molly Bloom in Ulysses.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours. – Charles Caleb Colton
I will find out where she has gone,And kiss her lips and take her hands.And pluck till time and times are doneThe silver apples of the moon,The golden apples of the sun. – William Butler Yeats The Song of Wandering Aengus
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age, forever. – Rabindranath Tagore Unending Love
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were. – Kahlil Gibran
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. – Oscar Wilde Attributed
In Kiss Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine. – The Bible Song of Solomon 1:2
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages. – Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time /Remembrance of Things Past, Volume Four: Cities of the Plain. Spoken by Robert in Part 2, Chapter 1.
If you have it [love], you don’t need to have anything else. If you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have. – James M. Barrie
If you love something, set it free; if it comes back it’s yours, if it doesn’t, it never was. – Unknown
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’m going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won’t be back for TEN MINUTES. – Homer Simpson