Famous Love Quotes (page 2)

"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

"Who so loves believes the impossible"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"Love is what you've been through with somebody"

James Thurber, Comedian

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love"

Stendhal, Writer

"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love"

Henry Drummond, Writer

"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever"

Henry Drummond, Writer

"To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I.""

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Love that is not madness is not love"

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist

"I can live without money, but I cannot live without love"

Judy Garland, Actress

"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb"

Robert Browning, Poet

"The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

"The art of love is largely the art of persistence"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name"

Andre Breton, Poet

"Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself"

Andre Breton, Poet

"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

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

Robert Burton

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"Come live in my heart, and pay no rent"

Samuel Lover, Artist

"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years"

Rupert Brooke, Poet

"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder"

Charles Morgan, Novelist

"A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving"

Cyrano de Bergerac, Playwright

"There is no limit to the power of loving"

John Morton, Clergyman

"I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence"

Theodore Dreiser, Novelist

"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, Poet