Love Quotes

“My tiny hands not being able to weave a garland of the stars, I made curious songs for my beloved, To crown her with.”

“Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.”

“The lover is regarded as a lunatic, unfit for the society of his fellows.”

“Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.”

“Love is a passion in which soul and body hold divided empire.”

“My opinion of love is, that it acts upon the human heart precisely as a nutmeg-grater acts upon a nutmeg. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley ["Shelley seldom indulged in a pleasantry, and William Godwin as seldom reported one; a jest of the former, given on the relation of the latter, is at least a rarity of facetiousness."”

“Love is my religion — I could die for that.”

“Are you a man, Octave? Do you see the leaves falling from the trees, the sun rising and setting? Do you hear the ticking of the clock of time with each pulsation of your heart? Is there, then, such a difference between the love of a year and the love of an hour? I challenge you to answer that, you fool, as you sit there looking out at the infinite through a window not larger than your hand.”