My whole heart for my whole life.
French saying

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.
Alfred

Love me and the world is mine.
David Reed

I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
John Keats

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh

A goal, a love and a dream give you total control over your body and your life.
Author Unknown

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
Thomas Moore

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart’s beat.
Paul Valery

I could walk forever and a mile with one beautiful girl.
A.C. Van Cherub

A hundred hearts would be too few, To carry all my love for you.
Author Unknown

The courses of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare

My heart it beats to rapturous love, I long to call you mine.
Author Unknown

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day’s great sun.
Charles Hanson Towne

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.
Gilbert Parker

The Oriole weds his mottled mate, The Lily weds the bee; Heaven’s marriage ring is round the earth, Let me bind thee?
Author Unknown

Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things.
Catherine of Aragon

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Author Unknown

For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard

My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, both are infinite.
William Shakespeare

We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe

[L]eave a kiss but in the cup, And I’ll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson (To Celia)

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Author Unknown

True poets don’t write, Their thoughts with a pen… They release the ink that flows From within their heart.
Author Unknown

Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.
Napolean Bonaparte

Love builds bridges where there are none.
Delaney

The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.
Edward Thomas

…Let the world know, if there was ever love: Mine for you…
Peter Winstanley

Ah me! why may not love and life be one?
Henry Timrod

Who would give a law to lovers?  Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius

My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm, On any reckoning day.
Jessie B. Rittenhouse

Once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul thro’ My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Her very frowns are fairer far, Than smiles of other maidens are.
Hartley Coleridge

Life without love is like a tree Without blossom and fruit.
Khalil Gibra

Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella.
Japanese Proverb

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
Walter Raleigh

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (in letter to wife Sophia dated December 5, 1839)

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
John Keats

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Author Unknown

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
John Milton

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Leo Tolstoy

I have found men who didn’t know how to kiss. I have always found time to teach them.
Mae West

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Author Unknown

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.
Margaret Mitchell

Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer’s thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination.
Author Unknown

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Author Unknown

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
Ovid

I love you – those three words have my life in them.
Author Unknown

Two souls, one heart.
French Saying

Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Romance is the poetry of literature.
Author Unknown

When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life.
Author Unknown

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover

If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.
John Donne

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

I love thee – I love thee, ‘Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.
Thomas Hood

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss

Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.
English Saying

Soul meets soul on lover’s lips.
Author Unknown

When I am with you, the only place I want to be is closer.
Author Unknown

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other–it doesn’t matter who it is–and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Mother Teresa

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
Mignon McLaughlin

A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.
Author Unknown

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

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
Mignon McLaughlin

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne

Ah me! why may not love and life be one?
Henry Timrod

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

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.
Proverb

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Author Unknown

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Cathy Carlyle

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
Lynda Barry

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Lord Dewar

Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty,often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
Swedish Proverb

Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul.
Author Unknown

Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.
Paul-Jean Toulet

Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Mark Overby

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst

Love is my religion – I could die for it.
John Keats

Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Julins Gordon

Love is not consolation. It is light.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare

Love is not singular except in syllable.
Marvin Taylor

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno

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

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Henry Louis Mencken

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
Author unknown

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Eric Fromm

Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honoré de Balzac

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
Dan Greenburg

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
Mignon McLaughlin

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
Author unknown

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.
John Ciardi

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
James Thurber

Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them.
Terri Guillemets

Love is why I came here in the first place.
John Denver

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh