quotations about love
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
ANITA BROOKNER
A Friend from England
Love's fire colors once our neutral form, to blacken to eternal embers.
ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT
"Arizona"
Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire
Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.
ARTHUR SYMONS
"In the Wood of Finvara"
Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.
WITTER BYNNER
"Rose-Time"
Love's language everywhere is known.
ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
"Love's Language"
Love! Love until the night collapses!
PABLO NERUDA
"Come Up with Me"
Love is the centre and circumference;
The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key
To joy and sorrow, and the recompense
For all the ills that have been, or may be.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"What Love Is"
And when two people have loved each other
see how it is like a
scar between their bodies,
stronger, darker, and proud;
how the black cord makes of them a single fabric
that nothing can tear or mend.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"For What Binds Us"
Alas! is even love too weak
To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
MATTHEW ARNOLD
"The Buried Life"
Love is a stream that will find its course.
JAMAICAN PROVERB
It is easy to halve the potato where there's love.
IRISH PROVERB
Love is a wound that never heals.
GERMAN PROVERB
Love is blind but sees afar.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Love enters a man through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
POLISH PROVERB
Love begins at home.
GERMAN PROVERB
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
SWEDISH PROVERB
Some people will only love you as long as you fit in their box. Don't be afraid to disappoint.
ANONYMOUS
Life is a song. Love is the music.
ANONYMOUS
Love is not a flow chart.
PAUL COSGROVE
"Love is not a flow chart", December 22, 2015
Love is God's dream for man.
POPE FRANCIS
Vatican Radio, October 29, 2017