Love(142)

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."
Rainer Maria Rilke

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times."
Rita Rudner

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

"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."
J. D. Salinger

"Love means not ever having to say you're sorry."
Erich Segal