對於愛這個抽象而感性的東西，不同的人有不同的理解。下面，我們來看看名家們是如何理解愛的。
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
愛不僅僅坐在那裡，像塊石頭，而是像麵包一樣被做出來的，自始至終創造，不斷更新。
URSULA K. LE GUIN, b.1929
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
愛由付出自己和分享他的快樂組成。
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG (1688-1772)
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its ovn, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fail.
愛可以天長地久並仁慈;愛不嫉妒;愛不誇耀，愛不吹捧;愛不粗魯行事，愛不索求，不挑釁，不思邪;不因不公而喜悅，但卻為真理而歡欣;愛承擔一切，相信一切，希望一切，忍耐一切。愛從不失敗。
1 CORINTHIANS 13;4-8
Love is a plant of tenderest growth: treat it well, take thought for it and it may grow strong and perfume your whole life.
愛是一種最嬌嫩的植物：善待她，關照她，她會長得強壯，讓你的整個生命都充滿芬芳。
FRANK HARRIS (1856-1951)
Love is... one thing you can't give away - it comes baack to you.
愛出者愛返，福往者福來。
TRADITIONAL
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
那些深愛的人永遠不會變老，他們可能死於老齡，卻依然年輕。
SIR ARTHUR WING PINERO (1855-1934)
Love between the very young is touching. Love between the very old is glory.
年輕人之間的愛是感動，老年人之間的愛是壯麗。
PAM BROWN, b. 1928
One does not remember the flowers or the comliments. One remembers standing at an upstairs window staring dowm the evening-shadowed street waiting for him to turn the corner.
她不記得那些鮮花或讚美聲。她只記得在樓上窗前的站立，凝視著被夜幕籠罩的街道，等待他出現在街角。
PAM BROWN, b. 1928
Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no dashing of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.
愛的忍耐沒有邊界，愛的信任沒有終點，愛的希望不會破滅，愛比任何事物都長久。事實上，當其他所有的'一切都趴下時，愛依然挺立。
1 CORINTHIANS 13: 1-2, 4-7
Love is a symbol of eternity, it wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
愛是個永恆的象徵，她擦去所有時間的痕跡，摧毀所有開始的記憶以及對死亡的恐懼。
MADAME DE STAEL (1766-1817)
There is only one terminal dignity - love... It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
愛是唯一的終極品格... 可能是我們生前的最後一瞥。
HELEN HAYES (1900-1993)
Love - the most permanent of human emotions.
愛是最持久的情感。
STUART AND LINDA MACFARLANE
Love is something eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence.
愛是永恆的-—外表可能改變，本質不變。
VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890)
All love is sweet, given or returned. Common as light is love, and its familiar voice wearies not ever.
所有的愛都是甜蜜的，無論是給予還是回報。愛像陽光一樣無所不在，那熟悉的嗓音永遠不會消逝。
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
欣賞太陽，沐浴春光，去愛，去思想，去行動，難道這些是小事嗎?
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)
No never forget!... Never forget any moment; they are too few.
從不會忘記!從未忘記任何一個瞬間，它們太稀少。
ELIZABETH BOWEN (1899-1973)
Love is so short, forgetting so long.
愛雖然短暫，但忘掉很難。
PABLO NERUDA (1904-1973)
