Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.

This was love, I supposed, and eventually I would come to know it. Someday it would choose me and I would come to know its spell, for long stretches and short, two times, maybe three, and then quite probably it would choose me never again.

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon.

These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will follow.

My first love, you're every breath that I take, you're every step I make

A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere I forget, or die, or move away, And we are done forever; by and by I shall forget you, as I said, but now, If you entreat me with your loveliest lie I will protest you with my favorite vow. I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And vows were not so brittle as they are, But so it is, and nature has contrived To struggle on without a break thus far,-- Whether or not we find what we are seeking Is idle, biologically speaking.

Love ... is a living reality.

What you call love does not sound very beautiful.

We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

The secret ingredient to sex is love.

That you are not already golden word in our streets Already memories Your love fades Already Whether you are no longer to have perished.

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what happened with your girlfriend, Paloma- she stooped to pick up her purse and your heart flew out of you.

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

Come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me