“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.”— Charlie Chaplin, charliechaplin.com
“Making love was never about you and me in a bed. We made love whenever we held hands.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love doesn’t necessarily care whether you like it. It can bring you enormous grief. But you would never trade it for any other experience.”— Piers Anthony, amazon.com
“One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find - is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.”— Beau Taplin, beautaplin.com
“You did something for me I couldn’t do for myself. You loved me for who I am.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“Ultimately, the universe doesn’t care about us. Time doesn’t care about us. That’s why we have to care about each other.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“We made love and then made love again and then after we had made love once more, quiet and dark and unspeaking and unthinking and then like a shower of meteors on a cold night, we went to sleep.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I wouldn’t ask you to lean on me, if I wasn’t prepared to fall with you.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“I think we end up liking people because of their good traits. Sometimes we end up loving them because of their flaws.”— Michael Landsberg, tsn.ca
“Fall in love, get heart broken, and don’t get over them, not until you’ve created art that lives on longer than the love you had.”— Scott McGoldrick, goodreads.com
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blear…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.”— W. H. Auden, amazon.com
“You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.”— E. E Cummings, amazon.com
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com