If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
Henry Adams
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Thornton Wilder
I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.
Anonymous
Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care about
Adam
I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers
Gina Lollobrigida
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
Oscar Wilde
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
You can be as romantic as you please about love, Hector; but you mustn't be romantic about money
George Bernard Shaw
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.
Barbara Howar
There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."
Helen Fisher