Romantic love quotes

If you are asking if I need you, the answer is 4ever…
if you are asking if I will leave you, the answer is never…
if you are asking what I value, the answer is you…
if you are asking if I love you the answer is I do.
- Anonymous -

You don't love someone because they are beautiful;
they are beautiful because you love them!
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when
you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
- Henry Drummond -
 
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
- Pearl S. Buck -
 
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
- Mother Teresa -
 
The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth -
 
Think about it, there must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is a wasted time
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
- Steve Winwood -
 
Love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
 
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
- Benjamin Disraeli -
 
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
- Victor Hugo -
 
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
- Lord Byron -
 
We can only learn to love by loving.
- Iris Murdoch -
May no gift be too small to give,
nor too simple to receive,
which is wrapped in thoughtfulness
and tied with love.
- L.O. Baird -
 
You come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen -
 
Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones -
 
The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity-love. And the story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
- Helen Hayes -
 
"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."
- Louise Hay -
 
"Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it."
- Judith Viorst -
 
"No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking."
- Francois La Rochefoucauld -
 
"Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
So, when affection yields discourse, it seems
The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
They that are rich in words, in words discover
- Sir Walter Raleigh -
 
"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
 
"Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. Falling in love is not."
- M. Scott Peck -
 
"Love … is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else."
- Morton Hunt -
 
"Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock."
- Mary Parrish -
"Love cures people, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too."
- Karl A Menninger -
 
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
- David Viscott -
 
"It is not love, but lack of love, which is blind."
- Glenway Wescott -
 
"It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist."
- Muriel Spark -
 
"Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it."
- Ned Rorem -
 
"Let those love now who never loved before; Let those who always loved, now love the more."
- Thomas Parnell -
 
"Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love."
- Marc Chagall -
 
"Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible."
- W Stanley Mooneyham -
 
"Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it."
- Robert C Solomon -
 
"[Her] love and tenderness … gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones."
- Eugene O'Neill -
 
"The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned."
- Somerset Maugham -
 
"As sweet and musical
As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair;
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony."
- William Shakespeare -

"This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents."
- William Shakespeare -
 
"Be of love - a little - more careful than of anything."
- E. Cummings -
 
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
- Peter Ustinov -
 
"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."
- Thornton Wilder -
 
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
- Erich Fromm -
 
"Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it."
- Boris Pasternak -
 
"Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality."
- Theodor Reik -

"Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."
- Theodor Reik -
 
"Love is a hole in the heart."
- Ben Hecht -
 
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -
 
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa -
 
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
- Henry Ward Beecher -
Treasure the love you receive above all.
It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
- Og Mandino -
 
All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon the sand.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
 
The loving are the daring.
- Bayard Taylor -
 
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
 
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning -
 
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is a wasted time
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
- Cathy Carlyle -
 
Love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
 
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
- Benjamin Disraeli -
 
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and
not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
- Leo Buscaglia -
 
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu -
 
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
- Jacques Benigne Bossuel -
 
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed:
our love to others, and others' love to us.
- Thomas Trahern -

Love is always bestowed as a gift
freely, willingly, and without expectation....
We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
- Leo Buscaglia -
 
It is best to love wisely, no doubt;
but to love foolishly is better than
not to be able to love at all.
- William Thackeray -
 
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
- Fulton J. Sheen -
 
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place
in ourselves for those who love us.
- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux -
 
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
- Elbert Hubbard -
 
We are all born for love...
it is the principle existence and it's only end.
- Disraeli -
 
To fear love is to fear life,
and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell -
 
The dedicated life is the life worth living.
You must give with your whole heart.
- Anne Dillard -
 
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
 
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
- Henry Ward Beecher -
 
"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
- Carl Jung -
 
"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality … the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."
- José Ortega y Gasset -