love quotes (legends)

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

Stendhal

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston 

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

George Eliot

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert 

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 

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe 

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde 

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo 

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Friedrich Nietzsche 

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens 

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

Andre Breton 

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost 

First love is only a

 little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw 

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

John Lennon 

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

Judy Garland

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis 

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

William Shakespeare 

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.