There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~Henry David Thoreau

No pleasure without pain.
~English Proverb

In her first passion a woman loves her lover,
In all the others, all she loves is love.
~Lord Byron

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare

Love is friendship set on fire.
~Jeremy Taylor

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour,
to minister to each other in all sorrow,
to share with each other in all gladness,
to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?
~George Eliot

Love is like a game of chess:
One false move and you're mated.
~Unknown

Thou art my life, my love, my heart,
The very eyes of me;
And hast command of every part
To live and die for thee.
~Robert Herrick

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted.
Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart,
or its flame burns low.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Falling in love is awfully simple,
but falling out of love is simply awful.
~Unknown

A good wife� is far more precious than jewels.
~Proverbs 31:10

The first duty of love is to listen.
~Paul Tillich

That love is all there is,
Is all we know of love;
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.
~Emily Dickinson


Cold hands, warm heart.
~English Proverb

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.
~William Shakespeare

Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.
~William Shakespeare

Wild Nights! Wild Nights! were I with thee
Wild Nights would be our luxury.
Futile the winds to a heart in port, Gone with the compass
Gone with the chart--Rowing in Eden.
Ah the Sea! Might I but moor-- Tonight in thee
~Emily Dickinson

Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--
But how could I forget thee?
~William Wordsworth

To love one who loves you,
To admire one who admires you,
In a word, to be the idol of one's idol,
Is exceeding the limit of human joy;
It is stealing fire from heaven.
~Delphine de Girardin

Nobody had ever measured, even poets,
how much the heart can hold.
~Zelda Fitzgerald

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best things in life are free.
~English Proverb

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned...
~William Butler Yeats.

Unless you can love, as the angels may,
With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
Through behoving and unbehoving;
Unless you can die when the dream is past--
Oh, never call it loving!
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.
~Virgil