There are two sorts of romantics: those who love, and those who love the adventure of loving - Lesley Blanch. View more images...

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. - Brian Aldiss. View more images...

Mighty Love's artillery. - Richard Crashaw. View more images...

Some people never say the words 'I love you'. It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing to be told. - Paul Simon. View more images...

Love is a boy by poets styl'd:
Then spare the rod and spoil the child. - Samuel Butler. View more images...

Real love hurts, real love makes you totally open and vulnerable. Real love will take you far behind yourself,and therefore real love will devastate you. If love doesn't shatter you, you will not know love - Unknown. View more images...

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything - Unknown. View more images...

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given;
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven. - Philip Sidney. View more images...

Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the snow weasels come. - Matt Groening. View more images...

It is better to have loved and lost, than to have paid for it and not liked it at all. - Graham Davies. View more images...

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. - Oscar Wilde. View more images...

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love. - Washington Irving. View more images...

When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them. - Jalal ad-Din Rumi. View more images...

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. - Ranier Maria Rilke. View more images...

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children - Bertrand Russell. View more images...