The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of love: avoid if at all possible. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 2005 starring Martin Freeman & Sam Rockwell & Mos Def & Zooey Deschanel & Bill Nighy & Warwick Davis & Anna Chanccellor & John Malkovich & Kelly Macdonald et al, director Garth Jennings; see also novel Douglas Adams
When a man of Scotty’s years falls in love the loneliness of his life is suddenly revealed to him; his whole heart once throbbed only to the ship’s engines. Star Trek s3e18: The Lights of Zetar, Kirk
You’re in love with a Dabo girl? Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s2e17: Playing God, Sisko to Jake
I love you, Quark. I’ve always loved you – even when I’ve hated you. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s2e18: Profit and Loss, bird to Quark
You don’t have to pretend with me. You’re in love with her: Kira. And what’s more you’re worried she’s falling in love with Shakaar. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s4e13: Crossfire, Quark to Odo
We are not accorded the luxury of choosing the women we fall in love with. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s6e7: You Are Cordially Invited … Martok to Worf
Do not regret loving someone, Michael. Star Trek: Discovery s1e14: The War Without, The War Within, Sarek
I have fallen in love with you, Lucy. Star Trek: Voyager s2e8: Persistence of Vision, Janeway on holodeck
I want you. I’ve always wanted you. ibid. Chakotay (imaginary) to B’Elanna
B’Elanna: I have to tell you the truth. I ... I love you. (pause) Say something.
Tom: Well, you’ve picked a great time to tell me. Star Trek: Voyager s4e3: Day of Honour, Paris & B’Elanna float free in space with oxygen running low
Commander, I don’t think you can analyse love. It’s the greatest mystery of all. No-one knows why it happens or it doesn’t. Star Trek: Voyager s4e22: Unforgettable, Neelix to Chakotay
Romantic Love: an attraction based on sexual desire, one that facilities procreation ... Physiologically it bears a striking similarity to disease: a series of bio-chemical responses that trigger an emotional cascade, impairing normal functioning. Star Trek: Voyager s5e17: The Disease, Seven of Nine to Harry
I know you can never have the same feelings for me but I want you to know the truth – I love you, Seven. Voyager s7e24: Renaissance Man, Doctor
Make love, not war. Student slogan 1960s
Love is of no value without power and position. The Other Boleyn Girl 2008 starring Natalie Portman & Scarlett Johansson & Eddie Redmayne & Eric Bana & Jim Sturgess & Kristin Scott Thomas & Mark Rylance & Ana Torrent & David Morrissey & Benedict Cumberbatch et al, director Justin Chadwick, Anne to Mary
I will love you until my last breath. The Young Victoria 2009 starring Emily Blunt & Rupert Friend & Miranda Richardson & Jim Broadbent & Paul Bettany & Mark Strong & Harriet Walter & Thomas Kretschmann & Jesper Christensen et al, director Jean-Marc Vallee, Albert to Victoria
I NEVER, NEVER spent such an evening!!! MY DEAREST DEAREST DEAR Albert ... his excessive love & affection gave me feelings of heavenly love & happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before! He clasped me in his arms, & we kissed each other again & again! His beauty, his sweetness & gentleness – really how can I ever be thankful enough to have such a Husband! ... to be called by names of tenderness, I have never yet heard used to me before – was bliss beyond belief! Oh! This was the happiest day of my life! Victoria, diary entry
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. Marilyn Monroe
First love is such sweet despair, Colin. My Week with Marilyn 2011 starring Michelle Williams & Kenneth Branagh & Eddie Redmayne & Emma Watson & Dougray Scott & Dominic Cooper & Julia Ormond & Judi Dench & Derek Jacobi & Zoe Wanamaker et al, director Simon Curtis, woman
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. George Foreman
Every lover admires his Mistress, though she may be very deformed of herself, ill-favoured, wrinkled, pimpled, pale, red, yellow, tanned, tallow-faced ... he takes no notice of any such errors or imperfections of body or mind. Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion. George Etherege, The Man of Mode, 1676
I love you, Mike. You love me, Mike? [Tyson kisses King] All right! Don King, press conference
Who loves ya, baby? Kojak
Love will enter cloaked in Friendship’s name. Ovid
So I can’t live either with you or without you. Ovid
Love is a kind of warfare. Ovid
And they are gone: aye, ages long ago
These lovers fled away into the storm. John Keats, The Fall of Hyperion
I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; every thing else tastes like chaff in my mouth. John Keats
Nor virgin-choir to make delicious moan
Upon the midnight hours. John Keats, Ode to Psyche
A bright torch, and a casement opt at night,
To let warm Love in! ibid.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove;
In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Locksley Hall
’Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’ Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving, 1956
Love is often nothing but a favourable exchange between two people who get the most out of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Erich Fromm, The Sane Society, 1955
If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee, and be thy love. Walter Raleigh, Answer to Marlow
Now what is love? I pray thee, tell.
Is it that fountain and that well,
Where pleasure and repentance dwell.
It is perhaps that sauncing bell,
That tolls all in to heaven or hell:
And this is love, as I hear tell. Walter Raleigh, A Description of Love
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. Emanuel Swedenborg
What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves. Percy Bysshe Shelley, On Love