love quotes (legends)

Who, being loved, is poor?

Oscar Wilde 

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson 

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton 

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Julie Andrews 

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

John Lennon 

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt 

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

George Edward Moore 

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Henry Miller 

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan 

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken 

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Lao Tzu 

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 

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh 

Love is a friendship set to music.

Joseph Campbell 

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond 

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Khalil Gibran 

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Leo Buscaglia 

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 

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 

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Miguel de Unamuno