To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. – Luciano de Crescenzo
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. – W. Somerset Maugham The Summing Up
We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. – Marie von Erner-Eschenbach
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. – Jean de la Bruyere
We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it. – John Lennon
Whatever ‘in love’ means. – Prince Charles Prince of Wales when asked if he was in love, after announcing his engagement to Lady Diana Spencer.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights, Chapter 9, Catherine Earnshaw about Heathcliff.
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell. – John Dryden The Spanish Friar, Act 2, Scene 1, Queen Leonora.
When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it’s safe inside your mouth. – Jodi Picoult
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
In Love Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself. – Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be our luxury! Futile – the winds – to a heart in port – Done with the compass – done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah – the sea! Might I moor – tonight – In thee! – Emily Dickinson
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life. – Joseph Conrad Victory: An Island Tale, Part IV, Chapter 14.
In Love Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. – Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance, Lord Illingworth, Act 3.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband, Lord Goring, Act 3.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. – Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance, Lord Illingsworth, Act 3.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! – Oscar Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol
