Quotes About Love

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Is a life worth living, without no one to love and to be loved in return?

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Falling in love is so hard on the knees.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.

I love him but he dosen't see that we can be!!!

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

The lover says: How beautiful you are, now that you love me

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.