Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. Douglas Jerrold
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
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. Gamaliel Bailey
Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's. Jean La Bruyere
O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu. Jean La Fontaine
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. Thomas Mann
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. Jacques Maritain
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
Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another. H.L. Mencken
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
The hunger for love is much more difficult to removethan the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa
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
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche