love quotes (legends)

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

John Ciardi 

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno 

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Jean Racine 

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Barbara de Angelis 

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

Gwendolyn Brooks 

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Pearl Bailey

                 

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Brigitte Bardot 

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

James M. Barrie 

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal 

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad 

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli 

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

Henri Matisse

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Elizabeth Bowen 

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Dylan Thomas 

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes 

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Eric Hoffer

                 

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Theodor Adorno

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe 

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

Gustave Flaubert 

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Natalie Clifford Barney 

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen 

There is no limit to the power of loving.

John Morton 

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Marc Chagall 

Love is when he gives 

you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

Torquato Tasso 

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse de Lamartine 

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Billie Holiday 

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

Mignon McLaughlin 

With our love, we could save the world.

George Harrison 

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Helen Hunt Jackson 

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning