• I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood |
| • Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 |
• Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
| • The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood |
• I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne |
| • Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. ~Author Unknown |
• Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
~Grey Livingston |
• My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders |
• "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
-Saint-Exupery |
| • How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo |
• "Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
• "The Eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love!"
-Margaret Atwood |
• 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 |
• "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the
real with the ideal never goes unpunished
....Goethe |
• Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
- Cynthia Heimel |
• One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.
- Judith Viorst |
• "If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else.
If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."
...Sir James M. Barrie |
• Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
- Joyce Cary |
