Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly

Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.

Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him.

It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen

It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.

How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love s illusion. And yet - on the other hand - what was love if it wasn't this instinct she felt.

Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure.

Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.

I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.

Could you be loved and be loved?

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.

And then I did laugh, even though the future was a dangerous place, because I loved her, and she loved me, and the world was beautiful.

Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

I love you Mark..." Courtney, PoR. I love you too Courtney..." Mark, PoR.

My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.'