Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
~Bruce Lee

Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: –
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
~George Jean Nathan

Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.
~French Proverb

True love stories never have endings.
~Richard Bach (Thanks, Bonnie)

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

There’s nothing more freeing than the shackles of love.
~Emma Racine deFleur

When you’re attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they’re a perfect match.
~Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward, Sleepless in Seattle

Platonic love is love from the neck up.
~Thyra Smater Winsolow

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
~Tom Robbins

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
~Margaret Atwood

You really shouldn’t say “I love you” unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.
~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
~John Milton

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
~Zelda Fitzgerald

Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.
~V.F. Calverton

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Greg

Lust fades, so you’d better be with someone who can stand you.
~Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson, The Story of Us

Ah! a blessing beyond all fate
My sole mate ’tis my soul mate.
~Pixie Foudre

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
~Victor Hugo

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
~Pablo Picasso