"Favorite Love Quotes"

"Love makes the world go round" so goes the song. Imagine a world without love, that's probably the worst of situations--yeah, a loveless world is indeed a lifeless one. As for me, I have always been living for love's sake. I laugh, I cry, I breathe because of love.

The term love has many meanings. Millions have tried to explain love. Some have even tried to calculate love. But almost always, they end up trying. And, that is no surprise because love is mysterious. I guess this blog is to end in the same way the others did. But, who cares anyway!

The love verses below are some of my favorites. The list contains some of my original quotations on love, too. As you read them, take time to suck the juice out of magical words of few of the world's romantics and feel the rush of passion into your veins; think of that very special someone you would rather spend your life until this world is no more....

----o0o----

"Life is but a world torn in shreds and the world--a row of flesh crushed in bitterness, without love." -Joel M. Santos

"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion." -Mathew Arnold

"Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself." -Mahatma Gandhi

"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,Old Time is still aflying,And this same flower that smiles today,Tomorow will be dying." -Robert Herrick

"Oh, my luve’s like a red, red rose,That ’s newly sprung in June;Oh, my luve’s like the melodieThat’s sweetly played in tune." -Robert Burns

"If I must die, let me... in love's blade." -Joel M. Santos

"If this be error an upon me prove, I never writ nor no man ever loved." -Shakespeare

"The greatest irony of life is to love your enemy better than yourself." - Joel M. Santos

" Roses are red and violets are blue, And all the sweetest flowers that in the forrest grew." -Edmund Spenser

" If there ever comes a day When we cant be together keep me in your heart, Ill stay there forever." -Winnie the Pooh

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go.Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same."
-Flavia Weedn

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." -John Keats

"I've never been so condemned in my life, I've never been so wretch'd, so damn'd, and miserable. But all these I shall happily endure for a minute shared with you." -Joel M. Santos

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

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." -Plato

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

-Robert Frost

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

-Henry Louis Mencken

"Love is a friendship set to music."

-E. Joseph Cossman

"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

-William Shakespeare

"And she wrote my name on a piece of flesh and my soul flew upon the universe."
-Joel M. Santos

"Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work. " -Vincent Van Gogh

"One is very crazy when in love." -Sigmund Freud

"You can't blame gravity for falling in love. "
-Sheetal

"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
-Albert Einstein

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. "
-Woodrow Wyatt

"Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from [humankind] the conflicts which this ethic will involve [us], but allow [us] really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation -- this is the difficult task which confronts our age." -Albert Schweitzer

“You will never know love unless you surrender to it.” -movie quote from”Fools Rush In"

“kisses are a better fate than wisdom.” -e.e. cummings

"True love stories never have endings.” -Richard Bach

"Love is falling in love over and over again and true love is to be in love every second."
-Joel M. Santos

" I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

" When love is not madness, it is not love." -Pedro Calderon de la Barca

" Let me lie,
let me die on thy snow-covered bosom,
I would eat of thy flesh as a delicate fruit,
I am drunk of its smell, and the scent
of thy tresses
Is a flame that devours."
-George Moore

" The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence."
-Edward Thomas

"All the world is but a dying ember without your presence."
-Joel M. Santos

"My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key."
-Frederick Saunders

"In law, not all love is legal.
But in love, it doesn't really matter."
-Joel M. Santos

"See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea: -
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?"
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

"To die is even blissful... when you're the reason."- Joel M. Santos