love Quotes (legends)

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Thomas Fuller 

Pleasure, Loving, Beloved

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Tammy Wynette 

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Bryant H. McGill 

Who loves, raves.

Lord Byron 

Love is metaphysical gravity.

R. Buckminster Fuller 

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

Francois Rabelais 

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

John Donne 

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden 

It is very easy to love alone.

Gertrude Stein 

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder 

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Friedrich Schiller 

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.

David Herbert Lawrence 

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Lawrence Durrell 

Ultimately love is everything.

M. Scott Peck 

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

Werner Erhard 

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Sinclair Lewis 

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Arthur Rimbaud 

We are most alive when we're in love.

John Updike 

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Aphra Behn 

Love is love's reward.

John Dryden 

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

Ovid 

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe 

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

Joyce Carol Oates

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Cyril Connolly 

But love's a malady without a cure.

John Dryden 

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

Leslie Fiedler 

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Lydia M. Child 

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck