Where there is love there is life.
~Mahatma Gandhi

It is not only necessary to love,
It is necessary to say so.
~Unknown

If love were what the rose is,
  And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather.
~Algernon Charles Swinburne

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.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I.
~Herbert Trench

When love and skill work together expect a miracle.
~John Ruskin

Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
~Emily Bronte

Love remains a secret even when spoken,
for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.
~Rabindranath Tagore

The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.
~Unknown

No love like first love.
~English Proverb

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise,
the amazement of the gods.
~Plato

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
~William Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love.
~William Shakespeare

O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love is a law unto itself.
~English Proverb

We all love best not those who offend us least,
nor those who have done most for us,
but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
~Samuel Butler


The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
~G. K. Chesterton

Put on love, which binds everything together in harmony.
~Colossians 3:14

Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile.
~Unknown

Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare

They are but beggars that can count their worth,
But my true love is grown to such excess,
I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.
~William Shakespeare

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
~French proverb

No sooner met but they looked;
No sooner looked but they loved;
No sooner loved but they sighed;
No sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason;
No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.
~William Shakespeare

To Love is nothing. To be loved is something. To love and to be loved is everything.
~Unknown

Let me lie,
Let me die on thy snow-covered bosom,
I would eat of thy flesh as a delicate fruit,
I am drunk of its smell, and the scent
Of thy tresses
Is a flame that devours.
~George Moore

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
~Alexander Pope

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

When the candles are out, all women are fair.
~Plutarch

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
~French proverb

We love because it's the only true adventure.
~Nikki Giovanni