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| There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting | | Moliere | |
| These soft nights hold me like themselves aloft and I lie without a lover. | | Rainer Maria Rilke | |
| They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change. | | John Ruskin | |
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| This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
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| Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians | | Marcel Proust | |
| Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others | | George Orwell | |
| To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. | | Helen Rowland | |
| To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
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| To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity | | Søren Kierkegaard | |
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| To love a thing means wanting it to live | | Confucius | |
| To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. | | Woody Allen | |
