A collection of quotes on the topic of valentine's day, for him, love, love.
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
Source: Heliogabalus
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Variant: The only remedy for love is to love more.
“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”
Source: Doctor Sleep
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Variant: And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.
Source: Les Misérables
“We can only learn to love by loving.”
The Bell (1958), ch. 19; 2001, p. 219.
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Variant: Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
Source: Wuthering Heights
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
A line written by Ono many years before, and quoted by Lennon in December 1980, as quoted in All We Are Saying : The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (2000) by John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, p. 16.
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
"In Search of a Majority: An Address" (Feb 1960); reprinted in Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_My_Name (1961)
Variant: You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Variant: Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.
Source: Love and Living
“It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”
“Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.”
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128
“Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”
Variant: Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.
“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.”
Source: Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life”
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
“The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.”
Appears in Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981), "The Beauty"
Also attributed to Rumi (persian mystic and poet).
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
Variant: Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
Source: Notebook
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
frequently attributed to Lennon, but entirely unsourced
Disputed
“No matter where you go, there you are”
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes”
“To be in company is not to be with someone, but to be in someone.”
Estar en compañía no es estar con alguien, sino estar en alguien.
Voces (1943)
“Without love, there's nothing without love.”
Without Love
Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)
“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”
Variant: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Source: Hamlet
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but you.”
Variant: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Source: Persuasion
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
"Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
"The Threatened", The Book of Sand [El Libro de arena] (1975)
Source: My Sister's Keeper (2004)
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
Interview by Edward W. Desmond in TIME magazine (4 December 1989)
1980s
“I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”
A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941)
Context: The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.
“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Orsino, Act I, scene i.
Variant: Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
Source: Twelfth Night (1601)
“You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.”
Variant: You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Source: Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul
“They do not love, that do not show their love.”
Variant: They do not love that do not show their love.
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”
Variant: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Source: The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
Attributed to Irving as early as 1883. [Hit and miss : a story of real life, Angie Stewart, Manly, Chicago, J.L. Regan, 1883, i, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435018229575?urlappend=%3Bseq=7] However, it does not seem to appear in Irving's known works. Other citations from the same year leave the quotation unattributed. [Henry S. (ed.), Clubb, The Peacemaker and Court of Arbitration, Volume 1, Universal Peace Union, 1883, 125, Philadelphia, https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu84AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA125] [The Australian Women's Magazine and Domestic Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1883), 1883, Melbourne, 435, https://books.google.com/books?id=mq0sAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA435]. A similar passage is found in a pseudonymous novel published two years earlier in 1881: "Julia knew that sacrifices to patience are not in vain. Although they often do not produce the happiness for which they are made, they will, always, flow back and soften and purify the heart of the one who makes them". [Illma, Or, Which was Wife?, Miss, M.L.A., Cornwell & Johnson, 1881, 239, New York, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435017658592?urlappend=%3Bseq=245]
Disputed
“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”
Variant: Come to finish me off, Sweetheart?
Source: The Hunger Games
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
Variant: nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.
“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful, and so are you”
Source: Beatles Lyrics
Variant: Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 11
“It is impossible to love and be wise.”
“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!”
"Fra Lippo Lippi, line 54.
Men and Women (1855)
Variant: Without love, our earth is a tomb
“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
Source: Message in a Bottle
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
Source: The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Source: 1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
As quoted in a review of A Swinger of Birches (1957) by Sydney Cox in Vermont History, Vol. 25 (1957), p. 355
1950s
“The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.”
“As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”
Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
Variant: Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
Variant: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6; variant translation: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives sweet thoughts. And from love and sweetness alone can form come: form and civilization.
Context: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives kind thoughts.
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
1960s, (1963)
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
"Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy", Joseph P. Lash (1980) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/21/together/
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”
“I have decided to stick to love… Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“The love that is not all pain is not all love.”
El amor que no es todo dolor, no es todo amor.
Voces (1943)
