Story 36

Romantic Quotes -- Where Love Lasts All Year Long

"For this was on St. Valentine's Day,
When every fowl cometh there to choose his mate."
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Fowles

"Saint Valentine is past.
Begin these wood birds but to couple now?"
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus at IV, i)

"To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day.
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine."
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ophelia at IV, v)

"Love is the condition in which
the happiness of another person
is essential to your own."
- Robert Heinlein, American science-fiction writer (1907-1988)

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly"
- Sam Keen, Love. Men and Women., American writer, philosopher (1938)

"Each moment of a happy lover's hour
is worth an age of dull and common life"
- Aphra Behn, English Novelist, Poet (1640-1689)

"Love is a promise,
love is a souvenir,
once given never forgotten,
never let it disappear."
John Lennon, Beatles singer, songwriter, political activist (1940-1980)

"Love is something eternal;
the aspect may change,
but not the essence"
- Vincent van Gogh, Dutch Painter (1853-1890)

"You know you're in love
when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally
better than your dreams."
- Dr. Seuss, American Writer, Cartoonist (1904-1991)

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
- Aristotle, Greek Philosopher (384 - 322 BC)

"Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent,
protects you from age."
- Anaïs Nin, French author (1903-1974)

"The best and most beautiful things
in the world cannot be seen
or even touched. They must be felt
with the heart."
- Helen Keller, Writer, US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)

"It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness
is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love,
unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation
of the original feeling of hostility."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter. Novelist, short story writer (1804-1864)

"The best love affairs are those we never had."
- Norman Lindsay, Australian artist, writer, sculptor (1879-1969)

"Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better."
- Robert Lee Frost, Birches. American poet (1874-1963)

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.
For love is the beauty of the soul"
- St. Augustine of Hippo, Romanized Berber philosopher and theologian (354-430 AD)

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
- Thomas Fuller, English historian (1608-1661)

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life.
That word is Love."
- Sophocles, Ancient Greek Tragedian (496-406 BC)

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself.
It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations:
it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
- Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (1799-1850)

"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts"
- Oliver Wendell Holmes American Physician, Professor, Author (1809-1894)

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own"
- Robert Heinlein, American Science Fiction Writer. (1907-1988)

"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."
- Sarah Bernhardt, French Stage/Film Actress (1844-1923)

"She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudness climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes..."
- Lord Byron, a.k.a George Gordon Bryon 6th. British poet (1788-1824)

"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 witherings, of tarnishings."
- Anaïs Nin, French Author (1903-1974)

"Whoso loves, believes the impossible."
- Elizabeth Barret Browning, Victorian era poet (1806 - 1861)

"Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails."
- Bible, (I Corinthians 13:4-8)

"Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone."
- C.S. Lewis, novelist, academic, essayist, lay theologian (1898 - 1963)