Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

They say love will find a way. I know determination will.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

When love is deep, much can be accomplished.

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Perhaps... you love too fiercely.

love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Love is only one of many passions.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.