Love Quotes from Literature

Life had taught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive. ~ Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery "We miss so much out of life if we don't love. The more we love the richer life is—even if it is only some little furry or feathery pet. " ~ Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist. ~ Shirley by Charlotte Bronte Love is real—the most real, the most lasting, the sweetest and yet the bitterest thing we know. ~ Shirley by Charlotte Bronte Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends. ~ A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare The course of true love never did run smooth. ~ A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. ~ A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare "Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living." ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot "I do love you surely in a better way than he does." He thought. "Yes—really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms." ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster