When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
– Tammy Wynette
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
– Jose Ortega y Gasset
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
– Thomas Fuller
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
– Fulton J. Sheen
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
– D. H. Lawrence
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
– Cyril Connolly
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
– Pierre Corneille
You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.
– Werner Erhard
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
– Brigitte Bardot
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
– Friedrich Schiller
Love is a hole in the heart.
– Ben Hecht
Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
– William Congreve
Who loves, raves.
– Lord Byron
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
– John Dryden
Love is love’s reward.
– John Dryden
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
– Francois Rabelais
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
– Robert Burton
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
– Billie Holiday
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
– Barbara Pym
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
– Christopher Marlowe
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
– Aphra Behn
