Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. Theodor Adorno
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 the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. Miguel de Unamuno
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end. Benjamin Disraeli
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. Barbara de Angelis
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. Jean Racine
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. Natalie Clifford Barney
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. Pearl Bailey
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. Joseph Conrad
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. James M. Barrie
I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. Nicholas Sparks
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. Mignon McLaughlin
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Henri Matisse