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"What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil."

~Charles Pierre Baudelaire
(1821—1867)

"Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices in truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

I Corinthians 13:4-7

~the Christian Bible

"There is a deep, long, quiet sorrow in love, a pity for all dying things, and an awareness of our own life slipping down."

"Missionary is the best position for when you're indolent, in love, or insecure."

The Lisa Files, 2 May 2002

~Lisa Carver

"Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem."
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love.

"Odi et amo."
I hate... and I love.

~C. (Gaius) Valerius Catullus
poet (ca. 84—54 BCE)

"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

~Allan K. Chalmers

"Since feeling is first, who pays attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you. Wholly to be a fool, while spring is in the world"

~E.E. Cummings
poet (1984—1962)

"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing each other."

~Luciano De Crescenzo

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

"The Prophet"

~Kahlil Gibran

"No, I may not presume to be your equal:
While I had the strength to draw you here, the sequel,
The strength to hold you, was denied me.
That fleeting moment of high bliss,
I felt myself so small, so great;
Until you thrust me, merciless,
Back to uncertain human fate.
Who teaches me? What should I shun?
That urge I feel—should I obey?"

Faust, "Faust"

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poet, novelist, playwright, courtier, & natural philosopher (1749—1832)

"Desire creates its own object."

~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

"Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are."

~Houssaye

"It is safer to be feared than loved."

~Niccolò Machiavelli

"Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come."

~Marc Maron

"Unfortunately, we are not afforded the luxury of choosing who we fall in love with."

"Star Trek: DS9"

~General Martok

"Enchantment has but one truth:
I weep to have what I fear to lose."

"Gethsemane"

~Nightwish

"Amor tussisque non celantur."
Love, like a cough, is not concealed.

~Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
(43—ca. 18 BCE)

"No one is perfect until you fall in love with them."

~Andy Rooney

"To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and finish without knowing what you have written."

~Jean Jacques Rousseau

"To fall in love is so easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."

~Anna Louise Strong

"Pain and love—the whole of life, in short—cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer."

"Confessions of Zeno"

~Italo Sveno

"Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur."
Even a god finds it difficult to both love and be wise at once.

~Publius Syrus

"Amantium irae amoris integratio'st."
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

"Andria"

~Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
(ca. 185—159 BCE)

"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."

~Samuel Langhome Clemens aka Mark Twain
(1835—1910)

"Remember the eyes of those you have loved, for they have touched your soul."

"If there is anything better than being loved, it is loving."

~Unknown

"Cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet."
Let him love tomorrow who has never loved. And let he who has, love tomorrow.

~Pervigilium Veneris

"It is not enough to conquer, one must know how to seduce..."

~François-Marie Arouet aka Voltaire
author & philosopher (1694—1778)

"It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone."

Lord Darlington, "Lady Windermere's Fan"

"Between men and women, there is no friendship possible. There is passion, emnity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Lord Darlington, "Lady Windermere's Fan"

"All good looks are a snare.
They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in."

Cecily & Algernon, "The Importance of Being Earnest"

"It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable."

Cecily, "The Importance of Being Earnest"

"Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer."

~Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
poet, novelist, & playwright (1854—1900)

"Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised."

~Marinne Williamson

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