The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~ Mother Teresa

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
~ Albert Einstein

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
~ Voltaire

Love is my religion - I could die for it.
~ John Keats

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
~ Unknown Author

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
~ Unknown Author

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defence
~ Mark Overby

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
~ Unknown Author

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
~ Unknown Author

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
~ Peter Ustinov

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.
~ Albert Ellis

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
~ Michael Leunig

Love is no respecter of age or practicality
Neither morality: unabashed
She enters where she will
Unheeding that her immortal fires
Burn up human hearts...

~ Phillip Pulfrey, from Beyond Me, www.originals.net

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
~ Lord Dewar

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
~ John Bulwer

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
~ Lynda Barry

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
~ Frank A. Clark

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
~ Robert Heinlein

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
~ Swedish Proverb

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
~ Henry Van Dyke

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
~ Dr. Seuss

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
~ Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain -
and most importantly, seeds.

~ Grey Livingston

Love is being stupid together.
~ Paul Valery
True love stories never have endings.
~ Richard Bach (Thanks, Bonnie)

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.
~ Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson, The Story of Us


There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
~ Charles Morgan

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
~ Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"