9. Love definition by famous persons

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.

love is like crushing your heart into dust,but within that particles of dust lay the love that will always be for you...

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.

"My heart is a red rose. When happy, it sparkles brillianly. When sad it bleeds and forms a dark puddle under it. When my heart dies, the soft fragile petals fall. So you might want to put your rose in a vase."

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God-the rest will be given.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Falling in love is so hard on the knees.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

I love him but he dosen't see that we can be!!!

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Conquer the devils with a little thing called love!

The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity and endless regarding our own being.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Life, the gift of nature Love, the gift of life A Kiss, the gift of Love.

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Do not cry, because we are destiny, because we are everything that can be above this world. And now, the angel of my life, please let me fly so that I can fulfil the vanity of this world, of this dream, of this nightmare that eternally took you from me.
I didn’t thought you will come now at this age and time of this Illusion of Life, but between these bars I tell you how much I love you and do not ever doubt me.
I will be yours in every moment of this life, which I give to you. .