Love Quotes

“It's the great joy of being in love, that logic flies out the window... To find one curve of one cheek the loveliest line in the world, to see in the mirrors of two eyes the very best you are or ever hoped to be — and to believe that they are not mirrors at all, but clearest glass — to have a heart that will start, and stand still, and leap again, at the sound of just one step... To know... never to doubt, that this one thing that you have is good, is the best, is the one thing always to hold to, to keep, forever and forever, against all the winds of time and chance — By gosh, enthusiasm stirs once more in my old bones! Yes, you're right. Being in love is something to thank God for. (There's also a great deal to be said for being out of love. But never mind...)”

“You know you have found love when you can't find your way back.”

“While duty measures the regard it owes With scrupulous precision and nice justice, Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.”

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!”

“May love touch every brutal soldier and every uncherished heart.”

“My idea of love was a cheerful, natural reciprocity of help and pleasuring and a certain mutual flattery and reassurance — with no thought or possibility of third parties intervening from either side of the picture. Love, if it was any good at all, was an honest alliance of two people well suited to each other, against the impertinence of third parties. With laughter in it. So I thought. So I suppose I still think at the back of my mind. And still I do not know why we should not all of us pair off in that spirit. Few men and women, I realize, succeed in getting things like that. But surely some do.”

“Occasionally it's good to spend a day or two checking on whether everyone you love knows it.”

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”

“Love is that flame which, when it is kindled, Devours everything except the Beloved.”

“Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.”

“Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.”

“In the treasure map of life, X marks love.”