The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anais Nin

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Helen Hayes

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
Henry Drummond

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham

We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere

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