We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.