What is Love?
Our favorite description of love is from the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin:When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No... don't blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away... (Iannis to Pelagia) Note: there are two versions of this quote, one from the book and a slightly different version from the movie.
1. "A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous."
Ingrid Bergmen
Ingrid Bergmen
2. "Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
3. "My night has become a sunny dawn because of you."
Ibn Abbad
4. "In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
Margaret Anderson
5. "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."
Janos Arnay
6. "Love is the beauty of the soul."
Saint Augustine
7. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
Aristotle
8. "Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life."
Aphra Behn
9. "Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."
Sarah Bernhardt
10. "In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life."
Bliss and Cerney
11. "Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks..."
John Dunne
12. "What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes..."
Elizabeth Browning
13. "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach..."
Elizabeth Browning
14. "Take away love, and our earth is a tomb."
Robert Browning
15. "But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever."
Robert Burns
16. "She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudness climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes..."
Lord Byron
17. "Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me."
Lord Byron
18. "I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you."
Roy Croft
19. "You're nothing short of my everything."
Ralph Block
20. "The only true gift is a portion of yourself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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ohhh yes
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