Love

All the little emptiness of love!
Rupert Brooke

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you.
Paul Verlaine

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms Without the aid of the seasons.
Kahlil Gibran

Platonic love is love from the neck up.
Thyra Smater Winsolow

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan P. Smith

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
W. Somerset Maugham

The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Dr. Karl Menninger

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.
Joyce Carol Oates

I love you. I call you. I always seek you in my heart. Now that I found you, what else can I say, maybe the most painful adieu in my entire life, my beautiful, adored, consuming soul mate.
I would like to hug you, but I know I cannot touch what is above me, above my life, above this piece of breath, and I am so alien to my self.
I know you are the one that can bring me out from the alienation I am in, that you are my only truth for which I exist in this world. I also know that without you, the entire world would fall apart, but it as true that beside you, the entire world would be consumed and what remains then?
I also know that the ineffable destiny will always keep the doors opened as if there would be any meaning as long as no one can go out through them.
This is a vanity too. It is also a vanity the fact that all the opposites attract and all the things that go in the same sense reject.
Thus Good will always be attracted by Evil, and Evil by good and the good of Good will be precisely the Evil while the good of Evil what we understand through Good.
The soul mates are as the pair of Good and Evil.

Sorin Cerin

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
James Joyce

Love brings pain, And Pain brings beauty.
Leilana Lynn

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
George John Whyte-Melville

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is fun but, it is not going to pay the bills.
Jessica Martin

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

Should I understand that love is the reverse of out life, that it is death?
That we live in this life in which we hope to have the chance to love, so to die? Let me drink from the glass of your voluptuousness down to the depths of my being so that I can die!
Despite all that, I will always love you, my sweet and wild angel of the destiny of my life. Wherever I will be in this world, I will carry you in my thoughts and speak to you where no one can ever ever ever come in!
Now you understand, my great love, now you understand why we must talk only there and never somewhere else?
Because we are condemned to be soul mates that had the misfortune of recognising each other in this world of vanity.
Always keep your head up in life, even when you will feel lonely because I am and I will always be with you, even when our bodies will be dust and ashes for a long time, even when the oceans will dry up and the water of life will be long drunken by the vanity of this world.

Sorin Cerin

Love and stoplights can be cruel.
Sesame Street

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
Libbie Fudim

We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.
Pablo Neruda

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
Clive Staples Lewis

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Robert Lee Frost

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. - Maker of the Simpsons
Matt Groening

I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.
Song of Solomon

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Baronne Anne Louise de Staël Staël

'True love' isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially --even, or perhaps especially, when you don't feel like it.
William R. Mattox, Jr.

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose, a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
John Maxwell

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need; by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. 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

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
Leo Buscaglia

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life? He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful? No indeed
Plato

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Why are men so secretive, why are they afraid of the truth, sometimes even of themselves?
Why don't they want to admit that they would want to love with their entire being because this is everything that remains out of this vanity called Life?

Sorin Cerin

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Jalal ud-Din Rumi

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
George Eliot

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
Pope John Paul II

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.
Rupert Brooke

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
Hoosier Farmer

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.
Princess of Wales Diana

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray

...Him that I love, I wish to be free--even from me
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
Paul Bourget

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
Marcel Proust

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it... you and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Moore

Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.
King Soloman

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
Lyster

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan