lover quotations

from many & various authors

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.

        ...Somerset Maugham

Perfect love means to love the one through whom one became unhappy.

          ....Soren Kierkegaard

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

                  ......Sacha Guitry

True love is like seeing ghosts: we all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one.

          .....La Rochefoucauld

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

                    ....Jules Renard

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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

     ...Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real and the ideal never goes unpunished.

      ...Johann Wolfgang Goethe

When poverty comes in at doors love leaps out at windows.

                  .......John Clarke