Love and Romance Quotes

"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."

"The ear is the avenue to the heart."

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible."

"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions."

"In every living thing there is the desire for love."

"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."

"Love is my religion - I could die for it."

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."

"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."

"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."

"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues."

"It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love."

"Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words."

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."

"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."

"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving."

"Love is the only gold."

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."

"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."

"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."

"True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility."

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

"Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar."

"He is not a lover who does not love forever."

"The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised."

"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."

"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."

"I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk."

"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"

"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"

"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved."

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

"Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are."

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."

"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."

"Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."

"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"Passion is momentary; love is enduring."

"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being."

"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results."