Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
Daniel S. Greenberg
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken
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 makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Erich Segal
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas
Love that is not madness is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald