love quotes

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
-- La Rochefoucauld

I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme
foolishness. I no longer thought that. There's nothing foolish in
loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.
-- Rita Mae Brown

Brains x Beauty x Availability = Constant
-- Murphy's Love Laws n°4

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

"I'll tell you what I know, then," he decided. "The pin I'm wearing
means I'm a member of the IA. That's Inamorati Anonymous. An inamorato is
somebody in love. That's the worst addiction of all."
"Somebody is about to fall in love," Oedipa said, "you go sit with
them, or something?"
"Right. The whole idea is to get where you don't need it. I was
lucky. I kicked it young. But there are sixty-year-old men, believe it or
not, and women even older, who might wake up in the night screaming."
"You hold meetings, then, like the AA?"
"No, of course not. You get a phone number, an answering service
you can call. Nobody knows anybody else's name; just the number in case
it gets so bad you can't handle it alone. We're isolates, Arnold. Meetings
would destroy the whole point of it."
-- Thomas Pynchon, "The Crying of Lot 49"

"I'd love to go out with you, but the last time I went out, I never came back."

Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day, but it has one
arch-enemy -- and that is life.
-- Jean Anouilh, "Ardele"

Money can't buy love, but it sure gets you a great bargaining position
-- Murphy's Love Laws n°6

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
-- Jerome K. Jerome

The person you rejected yesterday could make you happy, if you say yes.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
-- Charles Bukowski

Love is dope, not chicken soup. I mean, love is something to be passed
around freely, not spooned down someone's throat for their own good by a
Jewish mother who cooked it all by herself.

Nice guys (girls) finish last
-- Murphy's Love Laws n°9

"I'd love to go out with you, but it's my parakeet's bowling night."

Love is not enough, but it sure helps.

Nature abhors a virgin -- a frozen asset.
-- Clare Booth Luce

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings
infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can
grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it
possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.
-- Rainer Rilke

Always there remain portions of our heart into which no one is able to enter,
invite them as we may.

The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness
experienced at being alone together.
-- Jean de la Bruyere