Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. - Otomo No Yakamochi

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. - Roy Croft

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell. - Joan Crawford

Came but for friendship, and took away love. - Thomas Moore

Other men have seen angels, But I have seen you, and you are enough. - Unknown Author

The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you. - Unknown Author

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. - Margaret Mitchell (Author, “Gone With The Wind”)

"Just the thought of being with you tomorrow is enough to get me through today." -- Anon.

"Love is not the dieing moan of a distant violin--it is the triumphant twang of a bedspring." ---S.J. Perelman

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. - A.W. Pinero

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? - Cinderella

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Theodore M. Hesburgh

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved. - George Elliot

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less"--Rabbi Julius Gordon

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900-1944, French aviator, author

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." -- Peter Ustinov, b. 1921, British actor, writer, director

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." -- Erica Jong, b. 1942, American author

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” - Arthur Pinero

“In all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” - Unattributed

“Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” - Franklin P. Jones

“No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign where it is lacking.” - La Rochefougauld

“If you don’t know how to need someone, you don’t know how to love.” - J. B. Fees

“Love gives itself, it is not bought.” - Longfellow

“I am not one of those who do not believe in love at first sight, but I do believe in taking a second look.” - H. Vincent

“I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have lived and loved.” - Schiller

“It is better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all.” - Tennyson

“The magic of first love is the ignorance that it can never end.” - Unattributed

“Love is just a chemical reaction, but it’s fun trying to find the formula.” - Unknown

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” - Unknown

“In literature, as in love, we are astonished by what is chosen by others.” - Andre’ Maurois

“Him that I love, I wish to be free - even from me.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." -- Oscar Wilde

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." -Barbara DeAngelis

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."--Jeanne Moreau

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. - Jean Anouilh

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. - Samuel Butler

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. - Kahlil Gibran

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - G. K. Chesterton

The hottest love has the coldest end. - Socrates