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
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
St. Augustine
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
La Bruyére
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Do not tell me, for I've heard it all, there is too much to do with hate, but much more to do with love.
William Shakespeare
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Cyril Connolly