“Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.”
“At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.”
“Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.”
“Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”
“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.”
“Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.”
“The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.”
“Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.”
“My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.”
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
“Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.”
“Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.”
“I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.”
“There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.”
“Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
“The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”
“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”
“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.”
“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”
“It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.”
“Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.”
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.”
“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.”
“Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
“Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.”
“Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.”