In love, the one who runs away is the winner.
—Henri Matisse
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
—Ovid
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
—Joyce Carol Oates
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
—William Law
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
—Iris Murdoch
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
—H. L. Mencken
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
—Audrey Hepburn
You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy.
—Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
—Pearl Bailey
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
—Tom Robbins
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and “stay” become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.
—Tom Robbins
When two people meet and fall in love, there’s a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it’s usually too late, we’ve used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It’s hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.
—Tom Robbins
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.
—Tom Robbins
It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
—Clark Gable
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
—Muriel Spark