Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Marguerite de Valois
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
Anais Nin
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we love not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When I look on you a moment,
then I can speak no more,
but my tongue falls silent,
and at once a delicate flame
courses beneath my skin,
and with my eyes I see nothing,
and my ears hum, and a wet sweat
bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.
Sappho
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Henry Louis Mencken
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
Kay Knudsen
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno