LOVE QUOTES
''Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ''
-- Jean Anouilh, Ardele, 1948, (2, translated
by Lucienne Hill).
''To love a thing means wanting it to live. ''
-- Confucius, Analects, 6th century B.C. (12.10,
translated by Ch'u Chai and Winberg Chai).
''Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is
essential to your own. ''
-- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land,
1961, 34.
''This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as
the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.''
-- William Shakespeare - Hamlet - Act i. Sc.
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"When all else have forsaken Thee... I will creep to Thee and die in
Thine arms."
-- William Hazilit to Sarah Walker - undated
'What hath night to do with sleep?''
-- John Milton Comus
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
-- Aristotle
"She fights and vanquishes in me, and i live and breathe in her, and
i have life and being."
-- Migeul de Cervantes
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved"
-- Victor Hugo
"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten,
never let it disappear."
-- John Lennon
"Where there is love there is life"
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence."
-- Vincent Van Gough
"It is love alone that gives worth to all things."
-- Santa Teresa de Jesus
"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."
-- Karen Sunde
"Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
-- Kahlil Gibran
"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 Elliot
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged
Cupid painted blind."
-- William Shakespeare
"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey"
-- Lord Byron, The Giaour, 1813
"To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the
same direction"
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two
minus one equals nothing."
-- Mignon McLaughlin
"Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one."
-- Japanese Proverb.
"A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together
forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart."
-- unknown
"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing
each other."
-- Liciano De Crescenzo
"The soul that can speak through the eyesm can also kiss with a gaze."
-- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
"A man is not where he lives, but where he loves."
-- Latin Proverb
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-- George Sands
"Take away love, and our earth is a tomb"
-- Robert Browning, Fra Lippo Lippi, 1863
"Love and you will be loved, and you will be able to do all that you
could not do unloved."
-- Marques de Santillana
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is
essential to your own."
-- Robert Heinlein
"If I know what love is, it is because of you.
-- Herman Hesse
"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."
-- Jean Anouilh
"My night has become a sunny dawn because of you."
-- Ibn Abbad
"I think we dream so we dont have to be apart so long. If we're in each
others dreams, we can be together all the time."
-- Hobbes
''For you see, each day I love you more, Today more than yesterday and
less than tomorrow. ''
-- Rosemonde Gerard
''Love is as much an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody
seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost
in it, and above all, never...never forget it.''
-- Curtis Judalet
''For twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. Twas not
my lips you kissed, but my soul. ''
-- Judy Garland
''Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind
extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ''
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
" Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it,
everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish
it, be lost in it, and amoung all, never...never forget it. "
-- Curtis Judalet
" Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. "
-- H.L. Mencken
Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by
music
"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness;
it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it."
-- Christian Nestell Bovee
''Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. " ''
-- Shelley, Prometheus Bound
" All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built
upon the sand. "
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox