Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-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

Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.

Bertrand Russell

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

William Shakespeare

My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except.

William Shakespeare

'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love.

Alexandre Dumas

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

Anne Bradstreet

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

Jim Morrison

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Edgar Allan Poe

This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

Jesse Harris

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.

Madame de Stael

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

John Dryden

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

John Lennon

When I get older losing my hair many years from now, Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?

John Lennon

Strawberry fields forever

Ovid

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Sidney Lanier

Well: Love and Pain Be kinfolks twain; Yet would, Oh would I could Love again.

Pablo Neruda

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.

Pablo Neruda

You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness: because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics, galloping water, incessant sand, we make the only permanent tenderness.

Pablo Neruda

But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.

Sappho

Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.

Walter Raleigh

If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

Julian Barnes

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

Rumi

Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there; Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek Love lights Her fire from that flame. When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night Love comes and finds a heart entangled in tresses. Beauty and Love are as body and soul. Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.

Thomas Merton

Love is our true destiny.