love quotes (legends)

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Barbara Pym 

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm 

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James A. Baldwin 

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Victor Hugo 

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov 

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot 

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.

Cyrano de Bergerac 

Absence - that common cure of love.

Lord Byron 

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin 

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

David Grayson 

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 

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke 

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Duke Ellington 

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte 

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Francois Rabelais 

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

e. e. cummings

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi 

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Theodore Dreiser 

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

David Byrne

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Ken Kesey 

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

Jean de la Bruyere