“We love the things we love for what they are.”
Robert Frost · Hyla Brook, 1916
20 quotes on love, romance and relationships — from the classics to the everyday.
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
Robert Frost · Hyla Brook, 1916
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Stephen Chbosky · The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1999
“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.”
Nicholas Sparks · A Walk to Remember, 1999
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
Ernest Hemingway
“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”
Hilary Stanton Zunin
“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Emily Dickinson · Poem Fr949, c. 1864
“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Emily Dickinson · Poem Fr949, c. 1864
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
William Shakespeare · Sonnet 18, c. 1609
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde · An Ideal Husband, 1895
“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.”
Oscar Wilde · The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
“The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”
Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust · Les Plaisirs et les Jours, 1896
“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
Winnie the Pooh · The House at Pooh Corner, A. A. Milne, 1928
“Piglet: 'How do you spell love?' Pooh: 'You don't spell it, you feel it.'”
Winnie the Pooh · The House at Pooh Corner, A. A. Milne, 1928
“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”
Winnie the Pooh · Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne, 1926
“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.”
Winnie the Pooh · The House at Pooh Corner, A. A. Milne, 1928