Ann Radcliffe

"Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value."

- "The Mysteries of Udolpho" by Ann Radcliffe

Daniel Johnston

"True love will find you in the end.
This is a promise with a catch
Only if you're looking can it find you
Because true love is searching too
But how can it recognise you
Unless you step out into the light?"

- Daniel Johnston, 'True Love Will Find You In The End'

Steve Moakler

"How many times do you set love free before you know it's supposed to be?"

- Steve Moakler, 'Run'

William Wordsworth

"That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

- 'Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

Gemma Hayes

"You carry all you'll ever need in your heart."

- Gemma Hayes, 'Two Step'

The Beatles

"All you need is love."

- The Beatles, 'All You Need Is Love'

Patrick Kavanagh

"We must record love's mystery without claptrap,
Snatch out of time the passionate transitory"

- 'The Hospital' by Patrick Kavanagh

Benjamin Disraeli

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."

- Benjamin Disraeli, British politician

Ingrid Michaelson

"Everybody wants to love, everybody wants to be loved."

- Ingrid Michaelson, 'Everybody'

Euripides

"Oh, what an evil power love has in people's lives!"

- 'Medea' by Euripides

Jim Carrey

“I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.”

- Jim Carrey, actor and comedian

Buddha

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

- Buddha

Iris Murdoch

"Love is the difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real."

- Iris Murdoch, author and philosopher

Graham Greene

"I can believe only in love that strikes suddenly out of a clear sky:
I do not believe in the slow germination of friendship
Or one that asks 'why?'
Because our love came savagely, suddenly, like an actor of war,
I cannot conceive a love that rises gently and subsides without a scar."

- Graham Greene, author, playwright, literary critic

John Lennon

"Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes."

- John Lennon, musician and singer-songwriter

Noah and the Whale

"You can give up anything when you're following your heart."

- Noah and the Whale, 'My Broken Heart'

Florence + the Machine

"Leave all your love and your longing behind, you can't carry it with you if you want to survive."

- Florence + the Machine, 'Dog Days Are Over'

Bertrand Russell

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

- Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, historian

Plato

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."

- Plato, ancient Greek philosopher and author

Sue Monk Kidd

"That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love."

- 'The Secret Life of Bees' by Sue Monk Kidd