This is one of my favourites…

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

 George Jean Nathan

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

 

W. Somerset Maugham

We conceal it from ourselves in vain– we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

 Blaise Pascal

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

 Thomas Moore

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

: Ovid

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

: Erica Jong

Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The pain now is part of the happiness (then).

- Anthony Hopkins

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

 Proverb

He is out of my mind but forever in my heart.

- N Rome

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, -I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

 Elizabeth Barrett Browning