- Collected Love Quotes -

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

-James Baldwin

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

-Smiley Blanton

The best proof of love is trust.

-Joyce Brothers

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist,  the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

-Leo Buscaglia

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

-Willa Cather

A relationship is like a rose,
How long it lasts, no one knows;
Love can erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you'll see at last;
To feel that love, it makes you sigh,
To have it leave, you'd rather die;
You hope you've found that special rose,
'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.

-Rob Cella

All thoughts, all passions, all delights
Whatever stirs this mortal frame
All are but ministers of Love
And feed His sacred flame.

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

-Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

Love builds bridges where there are none.

-R. H. Delaney

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.

-John Donne

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

-Henry Drummond

Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.

-T. S. Eliot

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

-Erich Fromm