Famous Love Quotes - Our inspirational quotes

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected- in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

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.