Favourite Quotes: "Matters of the Heart"

1. "It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. "You may conquer with a sword, but you are conquered by a kiss." ~ Daniel Heinsius

3. "Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." ~ Woody Allen

4. "I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her whenever she goes. And I'll always need her more than she could ever need me, I need someone to ease my mind, but sometimes a someone is so hard to find." ~ Billy Corgan

5. "A kiss is the shortest distance between two people." ~ Henry Youngman

6. "If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of men who deserve them." ~ Robert Graves

7. "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." ~ Antoine de Sainte-Exupery

8. "If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings." ~ Lisa Moriyama

9. "Love is like the measles. The older you get, the worse the attack." ~ Mary Roberts Rhinehart

10. "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." ~ Andy Warhol

11. "If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature." ~ Phyllis Battelle

12. The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. " ~ W. Somerset Maugham

13. "Soul meets soul on lovers lips." ~ Percy Shelley

14. "To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity." ~ Soren Kierkegaard

15. "At the touch of Love everyone becomes a poet." ~ Plato

16. "The course of true love never did run smooth." ~ William Shakespeare

17. "Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock." ~ Mary Parrish

18. "Those have most power to hurt us, that we love." ~ Francis Beaumont

19. "Falling in love is so powerful that it makes you want to forget about everything else... Instead of wanting to struggle and destroy things, you want to find peace and to celebrate living." ~ Anchee Min

20. "He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise." ~ William Blake

21. "Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality." ~ Theodor Reik

22. "Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair; in America they end it." ~ Ned Rorem

23. "You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince." ~ American Proverb

24. "Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
~ William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

25. "The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the Ocean,
The winds of Heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle,
Why not I with thine?" ~ Shelley

26. "I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth." ~ Chico Maroc

27. "When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though hisways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you to yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you." ~ Kahlil Gibran

28. "Love is the difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real." ~ Iris Murdoch

29. "Music is love in search of a word." ~ Sidney Lanier

30. "Happiness and Love are just a choice away." Leo Buscaglia

31. "To fear love is to fear life." ~ Bertrand Russell

32. "They do not love that do not show their love." ~ William Shakespeare (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)

33. "Love is the poetry of the senses." ~ Honore de Balzac

34. "The loving are the daring." ~ Bayard Taylor

35. "To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others." ~ Francois Mauriac

36. "Then they looked at each other,
not quite as they had looked before,
for in their eyes
there was the memory of a kiss." ~ George Eliot

37. "Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love." ~ Albert Einstein

38. "The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost." ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

39. "Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh." ~ William Raye

40. "The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers." ~ Deepak Chopra

41. "Love may not make the world go around, but I must admit it makes the ride worthwhile." ~ Sean Connery

42. "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." ~ Alexander Smith

43. "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence." ~ Goncourt