Let the world stop turning, Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true... In this life I was loved by you. -Bette Midler

Love: A temporary insanity, curable by marriage. -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

To be in love is merely to be In a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god Or an ordinary young woman for a goddess. -Henry Louis Mencken

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. -Robert Frost

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. -Stephen Edwin King

When love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. -William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. -Rainer Maria Rilke

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them. -Mae West

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. -Voltaire

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. -W. Somerset Maugham

Love is the only gold. -Tennyson

You say that love is nonsense - I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. -Henry Brooks Adams

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you. -John Keats