A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. Brendan Francis
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagan
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty ... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. J D Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not in my nature ... The men think us incapable of real friendship, you know, and I am determined to show them the difference. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
We are all fools in love. ibid.
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. ibid.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. Agatha Christie, An Autobiography
I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The world is full of love tonight. No woman is safe. All About Eve 1950 starring Bette Davis & Anne Baxter & Marilyn Monroe & George Sanders & Celeste Holm & Gary Merrill & Hugh Marlowe & Thelma Ritter & Gregory Ratoff & Barbara Bates et al, director Joseph L Mankiewicz
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne, 1572-1631
Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is. Richard P Feynman
Grief is the price we pay for love. Elizabeth II
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand, letter 31st March 1862
Anthony Carthew (ITN): And, I suppose, in love?
Lady Diana Spencer: Of course!
Charles, Prince of Wales: Whatever ‘in love’ means. televised interview
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Alexander Smith
It’s awful not to be loved. It’s the worst thing in the world. East of Eden 1955 starring James Dean & Julie Harris & Raymond Massey & Burl Ives & Richard Davalos & Jo van Fleet & Albert Dekker & Lois Smith & Timothy Carey & Harold Gordon & Barbara Baxley & Lonny Chapman et al, director Elia Kazan, Abra
Love is the death of duty ... What is honour compared to a woman’s love? Game of Thrones s1e9: Baelor, blind bloke, HBO 2011
And so I propose that as love is the oldest, so is love the most honourable of the gods. Jonathan Miller, The Drinking Party, 1965
Love is an utterly sorry worn-out bygone thing. Far from the Madding Crowd 1968 ***** starring Julie Christie & Terence Stamp & Peter Finch & Alan Bates & Fiona Walker & John Barrett & Owen Berry & Lawrence Carter & Denise Coffey & Paul Dawkins & Vincent Harding et al, director John Schlesinger, Bath to Gabriel
It was for herself that he loved Tess; her soul, her heart, her substance. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
She clasped his neck, and for the first time Clare learnt what an impassioned woman’s kisses were like upon the lips of one whom she loved with all her heart and soul, as Tess loved him. ibid.
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess’s being: it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her – doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there. ibid.
He loved her dearly, though perhaps rather ideally and fancifully than with the impassioned. ibid.
To be loved to madness – such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover. Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. ibid.
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done. ibid.
There is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. Confucius
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. Genesis 29:20
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. Proverbs 7:18
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Matthew 5:46
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. John 13:34
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
These things I command you, that ye love one another. John 15:12&13&17
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Romans 13:10
Let brotherly love continue. Hebrews 13:1
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
We love him, because he first loved us.