Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.

Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

Not to love is to cease to live.

Love is the core of everything - nothing survives without it.

Since the beginning of time, love has been the source of both the highest bliss and the heaviest burdens. At the heart of misery from the days of Adam until today, you will find the love of wrong things. And at the heart of joy, you will find the love of good things."And the greatest of all good things is God.

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.

Life minus love equals zero.

I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.

Love is considered the most basic emotion that human awareness can feel; therefore, it is the closest to the source of life. The burst of well-being you feel when you fall in love is due to the fact that you unconsciously open the channels of awareness that allow more Prana [Life Force] to flow.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.

Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

Love is, without question life's greatest experience.

As goes love so goes life.

Love is our human miracle.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

There's so much I wish for these days, but most of all, I wish you were here. It's strange, but before I met you, I couldn't remember the last time that I cried. Now, it seems that tears come easily to me...but you have a way of making my sorrows seem worthwhile, of explaining things in a way that lessens my ache. You are a treasure, a gift, and when we're together again, I intend to hold you until my arms are weak and I can do it no longer. My thoughts of you are sometimes the only things that keep me going.