Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty,...

There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when...

At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins.

The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.

Life is a comical business, and there isn't anything funnier than love traveling through time.

Love like that? Hell, it seems so pure, it's damn near criminal.

No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I...

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

I love him and therefore I want to protect him - - even from me, if that makes sense. I didn't want to skip any steps of preparation, or leave anything unresolved that might reemerge later to harm us...

One must love everything.

Rudy, please, wake up. God damn it, wake up, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come one, Jesse Owens, don't you know I love you, wake up, wake up, wake up...

In the darkness of my dark - beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it, all right. You see? Even death has a heart.

There is only him and me and this thing between us that I cannot name, not out loud, but that my heart knows is love.

Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and nightmares - Listening for a knock, Waiting for...

I came to see that knowing what love isn't might be just as valuable, though infinitely less satisfying, as knowing what it is.

Watch over Honoria, will you? See she doesn't marry an idiot. {Daniel Smythe - Smith}

Their kisses were passionate, belonging to those who belong and do not care about the rest of the world.

To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares, - to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost {perhaps we always want the...

Being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.

I am sorry I can say nothing more to console you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in...

"I love you," she said. "What brought that on?" She smiled. "It's like a fever. It comes and goes. I think your smiles bring it on." "Then remind me to give you more of them." She rested her head...

Love can't be forced into existence, it won't come simply because you will it to happen

If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.

And I'd like Ben there, of course, cuddling me into the void with the usual sweet assurances.

Ursula's heart tripped and skipped and flipped at the sight of him. The very object of her affection! The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an...

Love. Love wasn't sweet and light, it was visceral and overpowering. Love wasn't patient, love wasn't kind. Love was ferocious, love knew how to play dirty.

And – I think you know, don't you? – that I love you, Anne. I feel as if I have been living in a loveless world for too long. The last tender face I saw was my father's when he sailed for England....

They conducted their love affair in the room above the abandoned corn exchange as the autumn weather came lop-leggedly in from the east: now a warm day, now a sunny one, now four days of cold winds...

He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love,...

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.