There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

They do not love that do not show their love.
- William Shakespeare

This is my commandment, that ye love one another.
- Bible, St. John, spoken by Jesus

This maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
- Edgar Allan Poe

Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
- Bible, Song of Solomon

Time is
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love,
Time is eternity.
(read at funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales)
- Henry van Dyke

'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

'Tis brief, my lord…as woman's love.
- William Shakespeare

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
- Anna Louise Strong