It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.....
~ François de La Rouchefoucauld

As powerful as the blade, and as gentle as the mist,
The beginning and end of all that is.
~ Ghost

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
~ W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
~ Charlie Brown in "Peanuts", Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000)

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
~ Woody Allen

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
~ Plato

Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
~ Wizard of Oz

If music be the food of love, play on...
~ William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

If you want to be loved, love and be lovable.
~ Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
~ Sir James M. Barrie

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
~ Margaret Mitchell

Love doesn't make the world go round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Franklin P. Jones

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

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell.
~ Bertrand Russell

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
~ William Shakespeare

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
~ Mark Twain

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
~ Plato (c.428-348 BC)

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind...
~ William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
~ William Blake

The hottest love has the coldest end.
~ Socrates

There is no remedy for love than to love more.
~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
~ G. K. Chesterton

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
~ Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Suitable for greeting cards:

If I never stop loving you, will you never start wanting me too..

I love the way you do that thing..

I love you the way you are, always be yourself because no one else can.

The eye sees the rose, the heart feels the love.

You are my shining star, the light in my night sky.
~ Shane Mize

Love quotes, humorous:

Take me to bed or lose me forever.

This is bigger than the both of us!

You're strange cargo, but I love you anyway!

We love the moon, We loose the moon, But will never loose how we can spoon!

Love quotes, philosophical:

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
~ Albert Camus

Love is still the Eternal Calm of Strife.
~ Fungus the Bogeyman

My heart will go on, but you will always be there.

No laws recognise love. Love recognises no laws. Law, not love, is the loser.

Love quotes, sad:

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
~ Anonymous

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
~ Anais Nin

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
~ Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)