Romantic Love
We love in another's soul
Whatever of ourselves
We can deposit in it
The greater the deposit
The greater the love.
Irving Layton - The Whole Bloody Bird
Y
Love is mutuality of devotion forever subduing
the antagonisms inherent in divided functions.
Erik Erikson
Y
There is no heaven like mutual love.
George Granville - Peleus and Thetis
Y
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh - Ardele
Y
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen - Ingomar the Barbarian
Y
Love consists in this, that two solitudes
protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet
Y
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come
nearer, recognise and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin
Y
In real love you want the other person's good.
In romantic love you want the other person.
Margaret Anderson - The Fiery Fountains
Y
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals
everything and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
Y
I wonder, by my troth, what you and I
Did, till we lov'd?
John Donne
Y
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything
with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
Flaubert
Y
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Y
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire.
Robert Browning
Y
An ideal of love: To love with all desire and yet
to be as kind as an old man past desire.
W B Yeats
Y
True love is like ghosts, which everybody
talks about and few have seen.
La Rochefoucauld
Y
Love … an attempt to change a piece
of a dream-world into reality.
Theodore Reik
Y
Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished.
Nathaniel Branden
Y
The Lion is the King of Beasts, but he is scarcely suitable for a domestic pet. In the same way, I suspect love is rather too violent a passion to make a good domestic sentiment.
Robert Louis Stevenson - Virginibus Puerisque
Y
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde - The ./picture of Dorian Gray
Y
Love is the realisation that one
woman differs from another.
M Levy - The Moons of Paradise
Y
A man may be said to love most truly that woman in
whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
George Jean Nathan
Y
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour
in the woman … or the want of it in a man.
Oscar Wilde
Y
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust
of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
Y
Try to reason about love and you will lose your reason.
French Proverb
Y
Love is sweet, but tastes better with bread.
Yiddish proverb
Y
Love is a sour delight, a sugar'd grief,
a living death, an everdying life.
Thomas Watson
Y
Ah love, the walks over soft grass, the smiles over candlelight, the arguments over just about everything else.
Max Headroom
Y
Love, oh love, oh loveless love
Has set our hearts on goalless goals
From silkless silk and milkless milk
We've grown used to soulless souls.
Billie Holliday - Loveless Love
Y
If thou remember'st not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into,
Thou hast not loved.
William Shakespeare - As You Like It
Y
He that would win his dame, must do As Love does when he draws his bow; With one hand thrust the lady from, And with the other pull her home.
Samuel Butler - Hudibras
Y
'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Y
I once talked with my mentor about love, and my mentor said,
I have learned that there are many ways of falling and staying in love.
I have learned that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades, and there had better be something else to take its place.
I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
I have learned that there are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it.
I have learned that just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
I have learned that just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
I have learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
I have learned that although the word 'love' can have many meanings, it loses value when overused.
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