Being in Love

Her cheeks burned; a strange new life was in all her veins. ~Amelia E. Huddleston Barr, A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story, 1891 [M]y inexperienced heart was stormed. I... for a week or so lived on thought and tea. But who has not fasted thus long when first absorbed by the universal passion! ~"Diary of a Surgeon," in The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller; consisting of Original Tales, Essays, and Sketches of Character, Vol. I, 1836 Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ~David Byrne Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva Gabor Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670 I'm so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy. ~Terri Guillemets We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. ~Robert Fulghum,True Love Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall — but you are there to catch them. ~Author Unknown You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown I climbed up the door and opened the stairs, Said my pajamas and put on my prayers, Then I turned off the bed and crawled into the light All because you kissed me goodnight! ~Author Unknown Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Adrienne Grandi Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn,Forever, © Flavia.com Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby Love — a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595 Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~Dr. Seuss Out of all the people I've ever met, you're the one who makes me draw those silly little hearts on my papers. ~Author Unknown Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore Thou perchance art thinking now       As I think of thee, And our thoughts in heaven above       Meet invisibly. ~J.J. Britton (1832–1913), "To C.E.S.: A Thought" When you really love someone, you can't be with anyone else. ~Stacy A. Littlejohn & K.J. Steinberg, Mistresses, "Love Is an Open Door" (season 3, episode 6, original airdate 2015 July 16th, spoken by the character Joss) We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ~Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht I love you like crazy, baby 'Cuz I'd go crazy without you. ~Pixie Foudre Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke Even at midnight the sun was still bright, All because you kissed me goodnight! ~Author Unknown When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, A song is no song 'til you sing it, And love in your heart Wasn’t put there to stay - Love isn’t love 'Til you give it away. ~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)" (Thanks, Krystel) Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him. ~Terri Guillemets, 1988, journal Ah me! why may not love and life be one? ~Henry Timrod Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy Love me and the world is mine. ~David Reed The love game is never called off on account of darkness. ~Tom Masson They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above. ~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow (Thanks, Katherine!) Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Robert Frost Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honoré de Balzac Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651 The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day's great sun. ~Charles Hanson Towne Love is what you've been through with somebody. ~James Thurber, quoted inLife magazine, 1960 What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. ~William Carlos Williams Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency. ~Gilbert Parker At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach (Thanks, Bonnie) 'Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul ~Judy Garland Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~Pablo Picasso Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. ~Author Unknown A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving; 'Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear. ~Edmond Rostand Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown For more click