Edith Piaf
“I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
Thomas Aquinas
“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.”
T. S. Eliot
“So the lover must struggle for words.”
Mark Van Doren
“To fail to love is not to exist at all.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
Brigham Young
“Love the giver more than the gift.”
Jean Anouilh
“Things are beautiful if you love them.”
Wassily Kandinsky
“An empty canvas is a living wonder… far lovelier than certain pictures.”
Francois Rabelais
“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”
Edward Abbey
“Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.”
Boethius
“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.”
Christopher Marlowe
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
Rupert Brooke
“Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the…
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”
Agatha Christie
“But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.”
James Russell Lowell
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
Alfred de Musset
“One must not trifle with love.”
James Thurber
“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.”
Pierre Corneille
“Self-love is the source of all our other loves.”
Mason Cooley
“In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.”
Fulton J. Sheen
“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Who so loves believes the impossible.”
Polly Berrien Berends
“The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and…
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“A weed is but an unloved flower.”
Norman MacCaig
“I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.”
Luigi Pirandello
“When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.”