FAMOUS QUOTES FROM BOOKS ABOUT LOVE

“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost, ‘The Overgrown Path’

“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.” – Louis de Bernières, ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – David Bowie, ‘Nature Boy’

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle, ‘Metaphysics’

“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks, ‘A Walk to Remember’

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” – Sarah Williams, ‘The Old Astronomer’

“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Oscar Wilde, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau, ‘Journal’

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.” – E.E. Cummings, ‘i carry your heart with me’

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” – William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The White Company’

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor SAD QUOTES FOR DEAD SISTER

“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness refreshes the soul and allows love to replenish and flourish.” – Nikki Rowe, ‘Once a Girl, Now a Woman’

“The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to those things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.” – Woody Allen

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’

“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.” – Nicholas Sparks, ‘The Notebook’

“Love is like the sea. You have to learn how to float within it and ride its waves.” – Carly Long, ‘Learning to Swim in the Deep End’

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.” – The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire

“To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain, ‘Following the Equator’

“Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.” – Ray Bradbury, ‘The Firesign Theater’

“Sometimes, when you love someone very, very much, you want to find a way of describing how much you treasure them. But, as Mr. Horse discovered, trying to measure love is impossible!” – Sam McBratney, ‘Guess How Much I Love You’