love

1 i would have loved to have grown up in a place where they tell you, "you make me crazy. i love you, i love you," that sort of thing.

2 if i fall along the way / pick me up and dust me off / if i get too tired to make it / be my breath so i can walk / if i need some other loving / give me more than i can stand / when my smile gets old and faded / wait around i'll smile again / shouldn't be so complicated / just hold me and then, just hold me again / can you help me, i'm bent / i'm so scared that i'll never / get put back together (matchbox twenty)

3 let them prate, those scorn-eyed anti-romantics. love is not the oil and i am not the machine. love is you and here and i am. now.

4 being in love was not the most important thing to me. being respected was. (tori amos)

5 and if you want it, you got it, forever. this is not a one night stand. (cruisin', duets soundtrack)

6 when a man's looking for a woman, he ain't looking for an airplane pilot. he's looking for a woman to help him out and support him, to him up one end while he holds up the other. (bob dylan)

7 love means the body, the soul, the entire being. we feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. nothing more exists for us. (guy de maupassant)

8 love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. (mark overby)

9 "i love you." / "what?" / "i love you. how many more times do i have to say it?" / "one more time would be nice."

10 if somebody loves you, won't they always love you?

11 if love is worth less because it doesn't last forever, then life must be worth less for the same reason.

12 she is vulnerable for the same reason she is strong. anything she puts her love in, she will trust, she will wait you out. she will put up with you forever--if she loves you.

13 when the truth is found to be lies and all the joy within you dies, don't you want somebody to love? wouldn't you love somebody to love? you'd better find somebody to love.

14 hail, hail, the lucky ones. i refer to those in love. (pearl jam)

15 if you smile right now, i'll give you the whole damn world.

16 on love: i have no respect for anyone who says they've given up or that
they're not looking or that they're tired. that is to abrogate one's responsibility
as a human being.

17 it makes me very happy and very miserable: very happy that you should love me so richly. very miserable that i must love you so poorly in return. (e. e. cummings)

18 i think you need someone to appreciate your weird idea of love.

19 what i have for you / this is no ordinary love / damn, i wish i was your lover.

20 great passions, my dear, don't exist. they're liar's fantasies. what do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a while longers. (anna magnani)

21 to be in love is merely to be in a state of pure anesthesia. (h. l. menken)

22 perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the old poets are right when they try to water it. it is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin, but there is always a scent of god about it. (olive schreiner)

23 if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

24 i hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. (j. august strindberg)

25 we all want to fall in love. why? because that experience makes us feel completely alive. where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. it may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. but that doesn't diminish its value, because we are left with memories that we cherish for the rest of our lives.

26 i can guarantee that we'll have tough times. i can guarantee that at some point, one or both of us will want out. but i also guarantee that if i don't ask you to be mine, i'll regret it for the rest of my life, 'cause i know in my heart, that you're the only one for me. (runaway bride)

27 see, there's this place where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. it's a place where a part of you will forever be a part of me. (gretchen kemp)

28 and indeed i felt happy with her, so perfectly happy, that the one desire of mine was that it should differ in nothing from hers, and already i wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path. (andre gide)

29 dreams: within the still of the night, on wings of hope take flight inside of me. there, upon some distant shore, we want nothing more than what will be. and you and i, here we are. i wonder as we've got this far. if i could read your mind, tell me the answer i would find: "do you dream of me?" and when you're smiling in your sleep, beyond the promises we keep, "do you dream of me?" love has found a matching space, a deep and hidden place, where time stands still. now, i hold you in my arms, you know you hold my heart and always will. and you and i, here we are. i wonder as we've come this far. and after all that we've been through, you've leaned on me, i've leaned on you, "do you dream of me?" and when you're smiling in your sleep, beyond the promises that we keep, "do you dream of me?" do you dream of me?

30 are you changing? / are where have you been that / you no longer remember / distance must come between love / where have you been, luv? / it's just a chance we took / never having planned to fall in love. (travis)