Love Quotes and Sayings

Love Quotes

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

Charles Morgan

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

Helen Hayes

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

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Robert Burton

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

Henry Drummond

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse de Lamartine

To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."

Ayn Rand

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Benjamin Disraeli

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

W. Somerset Maugham

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

Jean de la Bruyere

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Pearl Bailey

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

I Miss You Quotes

Good-bye is only truly painful if you know you’ll never say hello again.

I’m a fish out of water without you.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

We only part to meet again.

If you missed me then I’m sorry I didn’t stay away longer, I like being missed.

If some thing happens and you lose me, please don’ think that’ the end, come and find again.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

A goodbye isn’t painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.

I shed a tear in the mighty ocean. The day you discover it, will be the one I will stop missing you.

Staying away from you could turn from pain to joy, only if I knew you were missing me too.

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.

A day without you is like a day without sunshine… I miss you

Missing You Quotes

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St Vincent Millay

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine

All days are nights to see till I see thee,

And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.

~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XLIII"

Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~Richard Bach

How like a winter hath my absence been

From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!

What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!

What old December's bareness everywhere!

~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XCVII"

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi

Within you I lose myself...

Without you I find myself

Wanting to be lost again.

~Author Unknown

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"

Gone - flitted away,

Taken the stars from the night and the sun

From the day!

Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

~Alfred Tennyson

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ~Robert Southey

Your absence has gone through me

Like thread through a needle

Everything I do is stitched with its color.

~W.S. Merwin, "Separation"

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream.

And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

~George Linley

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. ~John Dryden

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. ~Tryon Edwards

When I go away from you

The world beats dead

Like a slackened drum....

~Amy Lowell, "The Taxi"

Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly,

We ought to be together, you and I.

~Henry Alford, "You and I" (Thanks, Jenn)

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades

Oft in the tranquil hour of night,

When stars illume the sky,

I gaze upon each orb of light,

And wish that thou wert by.

~George Linley

Days of absence, sad and dreary,

Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -

Days of absence, I am weary;

She I love is far away.

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

What shall I do with all the days and hours

That must be counted ere I see thy face?

How shall I charm the interval that lowers

Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

~Frances Anne Kemble

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. ~Adrienne Rich

I am tired, Beloved,

of chafing my heart against

the want of you;

of squeezing it into little inkdrops,

And posting it.

~Amy Lowell, "The Letter"

I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~Author Unknown

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. ~George Lansdowne

In the hope to meet

Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

~Ben Jonson

The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? ~Nicholas Rowe

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,

My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;

Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,

And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

~Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will. ~Author Unknown

We only part to meet again. ~John Gay

She went her unremembering way,

She went and left in me

The pang of all the partings gone,

And partings yet to be.

~Francis Thompson

One kind kiss before we part,

Drop a tear, and bid adieu;

Though we sever, my fond heart

Till we meet shall pant for you.

~Robert Dodsley

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. ~Anna Brownell Jameson

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,

Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,

Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,

Say, is not absence death to those who love?

~Alexander Pope

A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again. ~Author Unknown

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends. ~Richard Bach

Ever absent, ever near;

Still I see thee, still I hear;

Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!

~Francis Kazinczy

Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too. ~Author Unknown

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, translated from French

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~Norman Cousins

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. ~Eric Hoffer

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

I love you not only as you are, but as I am when I'm with you.

Love sayings

In the world of evil, stupid, self-doubt and called existence, there is one thing to another which is worth living and that is certainly as strong as death: it is - love.

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Life is the flower which love is the honey.

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