Love is a spirit of all compact of fire. Shakespeare, William
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, < Shakespeare, William
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. Ovid
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire
Love is very real, you will find it someday, but it has one enemy-and that’s life. Unknown
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s ownself. Fromm, Erich
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. Ciardi, John
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. Crisp, Quentin
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. Russell, Bertrand
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. Shakespeare, William
