John Donne Quotes

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with.

Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

Love is telling someone their hair extensions are showing.

Love is a sacred silence.

It's all good when we making love, all I ask is don't take our love for granted, it's granted.

They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.

Love me?” Madeline asked with a faint smile. “It used to be love.” He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. “Now there's no word for it.” “You once told me that you thought love was a weakness.” “I was wrong,” he whispered, kissing the corners of her mouth. “I've discovered it's my only strength.

Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.

I think she was the love of his life. When you've got one of those, it does stuff to you. It makes you think about them even when you're doing routine things. It makes you want to protect them, to make them happy and safe.

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.

I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Art is much, but love is more.

All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that's good enough.

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.