Saint Augustine

"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."

Miguel de Unamuno

"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another."

H. L. Mencken

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."

John Lennon

"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life."

Smiley Blanton

"Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat."

Ben Hecht

"Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex."

Daniel S. Greenberg

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

H. L. Mencken

"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."

John Ciardi

"Love is what you've been through with somebody."

James Thurber

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."

Zora Neale Hurston

"Love means not ever having to say you're sorry."

Erich Segal

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

James A. Baldwin

"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."

Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Love that is not madness is not love."

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

Zelda Fitzgerald

"Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so."

Boethius

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it."

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved."

William Congreve

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."

David Byrne

"Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man."

Tammy Wynette

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.