Love Intimacy Quotes

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.
--Alex Noble

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure-- a willingness to let our partner enter into the interior of our private world and a genuine interest in the private world of that partner. Couples in love tend to show more of themselves to each other than to any other person.
--Nathaniel Branden

Love simply cannot spring up without that self-surrender to each other. If either withholds the self, love cannot exist.
--Dr. E. Stanley Jones

What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image.
--Charlotte Joko Beck

Affection Love Quotes

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
--Logan P. Smith

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
--Leigh Hunt

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
--Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, all duties even.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Romance Quotes

The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead...
--John Boorman

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
--Oscar Wilde

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
--Havelock Ellis

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.
--Leo Buscaglia

Flirting is the act of making a man feel pleased with himself.
--Helen Rowland

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
--C.G. Jung

Love that is not madness is not love.
--Pedro Calderon

Falling In Love Quotes

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
--Lenore Coffee

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
--Anna Louise Strong

Love is like water; We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we can't live with out it.
--Unknown

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
--M Scott Peck

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
--Sir Winston Churchill

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
--Bertrand Russell

In Love Quotes

One is very crazy when in love.
--Sigmund Freud

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
--Bertrand Russell

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
--Helen Rowland

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
--Sheetal

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
--Woodrow Wyatt

The mark of a true crush
Is that you fall in love first
And grope for reasons afterward
--Shana Alexander

Love is Quotes

Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
--Franklin P. Jones

Love is merely madness...
--William Shakespeare

True love is like a ghost; everyone talks of it, few have seen it.
--La Rochefoucauld

Love is like a Rhino, short-sighted, but always willing to find a way.
--Unknown

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

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
--Mother Theresa

Romantic Love Quotes

Other men said they have seen angels,
But I have seen thee
And thou art enough.
~ by G. Moore ~

I would fly you to the moon and back if you'll be . . . if you'll be my baby.
~ From a song by Savage Garden ~

I love you - those three words have my life in them.
~ by Alexandrea to Nicholas III ~

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion -
I have shudder'd at it.
I shudder no more.
I could be martyr'd for my religion
Love is my religion
And I could die for that.
I could die for you.
~ by John Keats ~

I'd like to run away
From you,
But if you didn't come
And find me ...
I would die.
~ by Shirley Bassey ~