"For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy."
Boethius
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
Judy Garland
"For man's greatest crime is to have been born."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
"Fortune and love favor the brave."
Ovid
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
Albert Einstein
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
"How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it."
Barbara Pym
"I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone."
Javan
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
Mother Teresa
"I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved."
George Eliot
"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."
J. D. Salinger
"If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?"
Boethius
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
A. A. Milne
"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
Michel de Montaigne
"If you want to be loved, be lovable."
Ovid
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
Erich Fromm
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
Erich Fromm
"In love there are things - bodies and words."
Joyce Carol Oates
"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love."
Miguel de Unamuno
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
Victor Hugo
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
Kahlil Gibran
"Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages."
Marcel Proust