Love is not consolation. It is light.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
~Erich Segal

Loving is never a waste of time.
~Astrid Alauda

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
~Fyodor Dostoevski

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
~William Butler Yeats

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
~Author Unknown

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960

Love is being stupid together.
~Paul Valery

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.
~Charles Baudelaire

Open your heart and take us in,
Love – love and me.
~W.E. Henley

Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.
~Rita Rudner

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.
~Charles du Bos

I love you like crazy, baby
‘Cuz I’d go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre

What “love” is I don’t know if it’s not the response of our deepest natures to one another.
~William Carlos Williams

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.
~Sylvester Stallone

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency.
~Gilbert Parker

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
~Plato

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
~William Shakespeare