1. Love in its essence is spiritual fire. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

2. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell 

3. Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. - Bertrand Russell 

4. Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. - Tom Wolfe 

5. Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. - William Blake 

6. We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. - Benjamin Disraeli 

7. The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli 

8. Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. - Rabindranath Tagore 

9. Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you. - Joyce Meyer 

10. Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. - Leo Buscaglia 

11. Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. - Leo Buscaglia 

12. We all need each other. - Leo Buscaglia 

13. Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. - Blaise Pascal 

14. When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. - Blaise Pascal 

15. You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. - D. H. Lawrence 

16. In every living thing there is the desire for love. - D. H. Lawrence 

17. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. - Samuel Johnson 

18. Absence - that common cure of love. - Lord Byron 

19. Who loves, raves. - Lord Byron 

20. Friendship is Love without his wings! - Lord Byron 

21. Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. - Jim Morrison 

22. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. - Rainer Maria Rilke 

23. Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. - Rainer Maria Rilke 

24. Be of love a little more careful than of anything. - e. e. cummings 

25. Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. - Thomas Merton 

26. Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston 

27. Love is my religion - I could die for it. - John Keats 

28. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins 

29. The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. - Tom Robbins 

30. The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realized. - Henri Nouwen 

31. The love we give away is the only love we keep. - Elbert Hubbard 

32. The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. - Jiddu Krishnamurti 

33. If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love. - Samuel Beckett 

34. You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. - Robert Louis Stevenson 

35. Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. - Saint Teresa of Avila 

36. Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

37. Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

38. Do all things with love. - Og Mandino 

39. Love prefers twilight to daylight. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 

40. Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? - Richard Bach 

41. We can't command our love, but we can our actions. - Arthur Conan Doyle 

42. Love is the flower you've got to let grow. - John Lennon 

43. Everything is clearer when you're in love. - John Lennon 

44. Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

45. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

46. We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. - Orson Welles 

47. A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. - George Herbert 

48. Love is space and time measured by the heart. - Marcel Proust 

49. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. - Robert A. Heinlein 

50. Love is metaphysical gravity. - R. Buckminster Fuller 

51. There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

52. True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

53. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

54. Love is a great beautifier. - Louisa May Alcott 

55. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball 

56. Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. - W. Somerset Maugham 

57. Love conquers all. - Virgil 

58. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. - Thomas Carlyle 

59. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 

60. Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 

61. Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. - Drew Barrymore 

62. With our love, we could save the world. - George Harrison 

63. Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. - Thomas Fuller 

64. There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. - Thomas Fuller 

65. The eyes those silent tongues of love. - Miguel de Cervantes 

66. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. - Anatole France 

67. Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. - Carl Sandburg 

68. We love because it's the only true adventure. - Nikki Giovanni 

69. Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. - Dwight L. Moody 

70. Familiar acts are beautiful through love. - Percy Bysshe Shelley 

71. He is not a lover who does not love forever. - Euripides 

72. Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. - Euripides 

73. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. - Euripides 

74. Fortune and love favor the brave. - Ovid 

75. If you want to be loved, be lovable. - Ovid 

76. All love is vanquished by a succeeding love. - Ovid 

77. I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special. - Jennifer Aniston 

78. Only do what your heart tells you. - Princess Diana 

79. If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. - Princess Diana 

80. Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. - Gustave Flaubert 

81. Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. - Charles Caleb Colton 

82. People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. - Bob Hope 

83. More than kisses, letters mingle souls. - John Donne 

84. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. - Josh Billings 

85. Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited. - Duke Ellington 

86. It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. - Eric Hoffer 

87. The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. - Will Durant 

88. The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. - Henry Miller 

89. Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. - Billie Holiday 

90. Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on. - Billie Holiday 

91. The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. - Anais Nin 

92. Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. - Anais Nin 

93. We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. - Bernard Meltzer 

94. If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. - W. H. Auden 

95. People protect what they love. - Jacques Yves Cousteau 

96. In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. - Erich Fromm 

97. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm 

98. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Erich Fromm 

99. A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. - Honore de Balzac 

100. Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. - Honore de Balzac