Love Quotes

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." — Buddha
As quoted in The authentic heart: an eightfold path to midlife love (2001) pg. 240 Add Category or Author

"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." — Roy Croft
The poem this is attributed to, by Roy Croft, is nearly identical to a German-language poem by Eric Fried titled "Ich liebe dich" ("I Love You"). Little is known about either poem, so it is difficult to say if Croft actually wrote this poem or if he translated Fried's poem and ended up with the credit. Often the quote is attributed to "Anonymous" or Elizabeth Browning, as well. Add Category or Author

"I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal." — Vita Sackville-West
Letter to Virginia Woolf (21 January 1926), quoted in Love Letters : A Romantic Treasury (1996) pg. 78 Sackville-West wrote this letter to Virginia Woolf, with whom she had an affair. Woolf returned her affection in the form of the novel Orlando, which many recognize as a direct outpouring of Woolf's love. The letter also contains the line, "...you have broken down my defences. And I don't really resent it." Add Category or Author

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." — Honore de Balzac
Le lys dans la vallée (The Lily of the Valley) (1836) Add Category or Author

"Love is staying up all night with a sick child -- or a healthy adult." — David Frost
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"Love is a game that two can play and both win." — Eva Gabor
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"We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses." — Pablo Neruda
"Drunk as Drunk" ("Ebrio de Trementina"), (1932) Neruda wrote this around 1932, but is sometimes mistakenly attributed to his anthology "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" (Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada), but was actually written in "Residence on Earth" (Residencia en la tierra). His "Residence" anthology in which this is contained, is noted for both it's newer "anti-lyrical style" but also continued with the heady, erotic imagery of his earlier work, as noted earlier in the poem, "Drunk as drunk on turpentine From your open kisses, Your wet body wedged Between my wet body and the strake." Add Category or Author

"Love doesnt make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin Jones
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"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left." — Marilyn Monroe
As quoted in The Virgin Memoirs: Getting Past the Past, (2011) pg. 139 Add Category or Author

"Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it." — Albert Einstein
As quoted in Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives (1979), pg. 56 Written by Einstein in the margin of a letter, written to him, in German. Add Category or Author

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." — Author Unknown
Often attributed to Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel). Add Category or Author

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." — Mother Teresa
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"Absence diminishes weak passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fire." — Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"Love is a dream that comes alive when we meet." — Author Unknown
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"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." — Bertrand Russel
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"Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better." — Edgar Watson
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"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars." — Henry Van Dyke
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"Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough." — Pierre Beaumarchais
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"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." — Mother Teresa
As quoted in Women Who Win at Work: Flowers of Wisdom from Visionary Businesswomen (2009) pg. 106 Add Category or Author