Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. – Boethius, 6th century philosopher
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. – Jane Austen, English novelist
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. – George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), English novelist
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet
We loved with a love that was more than love. – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Bronte
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. – Euripides, Greek playwright
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Who so loves believes the impossible. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. – George Bernard Shaw
There is only one happiness in life,
To love and to be loved. – George Sand (Aurore Lucile Dupin), French novelist
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. – Germaine de Stael, French novelist
Love is love’s reward. – John Dryden
Thoughts on the Edge of Forever 