Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. -Barbara De Angelis

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd. -Louis Aragon 

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life. -Jean Anouilh Ardele 

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces. -Hannah Arendt 

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. -Aristotle 

Love is the victim's response to the rapist. -Ti-Grace Atkinson 

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. -St. Augustine 

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do. -Myrtle Auvil 

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. -Francis Bacon 

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. -Pearl Bailey 

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones. -Richard Bandler

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex. -Julian Barnes 

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -Lynda Barry 

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. -Charles Baudelaire 

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being. -Ernest Becker 

Love is the river of life in the world. -Henry Ward Beecher 

Honor the ocean of love. -George De Benneville 

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19] -Bible 

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians] -Bible 

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9] -Bible 

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. -William Blake 

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -Marguerite Gardiner Blessington

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another. -Paul Bourget 

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. -Andre Breton 

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master. -Robert Bridges

All the little emptiness of love! -Rupert Brooke 

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. -Leo Buscaglia 

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. -Lord Byron 

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. -Italo Calvino 

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. -Truman Capote

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. -Thomas Carlyle 

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. -Amy Carmichael 

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them. -Pat Carroll 

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion. -Catullus 

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -David Chambless