He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Thomas Kempis

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm

Who loves, raves.
Lord Byron

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
Lord Byron

The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de Balzac

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Honore de Balzac

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.
Sophocles

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
James M. Barrie

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James M. Barrie

One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
William Congreve

Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning