Love Quotes

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"

"He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate;
He who loves, finds the door open."
~Rabindranath Tagore~

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"

"The Time I've lost in wooing,
In watching and pursuing
The light that lies
In women's eyes
Has been my heart's undoing."
~Thomas Moore~

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love."
-Sophocles

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

"Perfect love is rare indeed -
for to be a lover will require
that you continually have
the subtlety of the very wise,
the flexibility of the child,
the sensitivity of the artist,
the understanding of the philosopher,
the acceptance of the saint,
the tolerance of the scholar and
the fortitude of the certain."
~Leo Buscaglia~

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed,
That I languished and pined till I granted the rest."
~John Gay ~

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof,
the work for which all other work is but preparation.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~

"Lots of people
want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want
is someone who will
take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
~Oprah Winfrey~

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate;
He who loves, finds the door open.
~Rabindranath Tagore~