“A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.”
–Ingrid Bergmen
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin6. “Love is the beauty of the soul.”
–St. Augustine
“My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.”
–Ibn Abbad
“In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.”
–Margaret Anderson
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
–Janos Arnay
”Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
–Aristotle
“Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
–Aphra Behn
”Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.”
–Sarah Bernhardt
“In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.”
–Bliss and Cerney
“Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks…”
–John Dunne
“What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes…”
–Elizabeth Barret Browning
”I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…”
–Elizabeth Barrett Browning
”Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.”
–Robert Browning
”But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.”
–Robert Burns
”She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudness climes and starry skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes…”
–Lord Byron
”Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me.”
–Lord Byron
”I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.”
–Roy Croft
“You’re nothing short of my everything.”
–Ralph Block
“The only true gift is a portion of yourself.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.”
–Euripides
“I love her and that’s the beginning of everything.”
–F. Scott Fitzgerald
“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
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
–Robert Heinlein
”Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
–Oliver Wendell Holmes
“What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.”
–Victor Hugo
“It’s so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it’s not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it…. In our hands.”
–Jaka
“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”
–John Keats
”The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
–Helen Keller
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