You call it madness, but I call it love.
Don Byas
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
Love cures people both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl Augustus Menninger
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
Karl Augustus Menninger
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
Edward Estlin Cummings
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Elbert Hubbard
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
Eliezer Wiesel
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key
Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.
Emily H. Sell
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
Erich Fromm
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.
Erich Fromm
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
Euripides
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
Father Jerome Cummings
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
George Herbert
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.
Helen Steiner Rice
When love comes it comes without effort, like perfect weather.
Helen Yglesias
Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.
Henry Louis Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings
Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
Lucille Ball
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Nick Richardson
We love because it’s the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni
Love is not what we become, but what we already are.
Stephen Levine
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann
Choose your love. Love your choice.
Thomas S. Monson
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
You’re not sick you’re just in love.
Irving Berlin
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
Hans Nouwens
Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
Leo Buscaglia
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.
Adel Bestavros
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love that we double our being: It is by love that we approach God.
Aimee Martin
You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn
Alanis Morissette
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.
Albert Camus
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas, père
It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.
Alfred Stuart, Jr.
True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
Alicia Barnhart
I’m not ashamed of wanting somebody to love I never have been, because I had it once. But maybe I never REALLY had it.
Ally McBeal
To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
Beauty is The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce
Love is A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anaïs Nin
Friendship is love with understanding.
Ancient proverb
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita Brookner
If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.
Ann Landers
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either.
Annie Sullivan
Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love.
Antiphanes
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
Archibald Macleish
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
Barbara De Angelis
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.
Barbara Howar
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
Barbara Johnson
Love is more like a flower than a tree; the wrong things can hurt it so easily. But the right things can make it more beautiful than anything else your life has ever known.
Barin Taylor
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Staël Staël
The magic of first love is the ignorance that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
After the verb To Love…To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.
Bertha Von Suttner
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Brendan Francis Behan
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
Brian Hwang
Never love anything that can’t love you back.
Bruce Williams
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Charles Augustin Sainte Beauve
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship never.
Charles Caleb Colton
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
Charles Caleb Colton
There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
Daisaku Ideda
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
David Bissonette
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
David Pratt
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
Love is not something you feel. It’s something you do.
David Wilkerson
Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
De Musset