As Plato once said, «At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.» Don’t agree? It’s not hard to see why.
Many tongue-tied lovers stumble over themselves when trying to figure out just the most romantic way to say «I love you.» After all, it’s not easy to fully express exactly how it is you feel about the person you love most.
The most romantic saying would include something to do with the heart.
It’s not like most of us walk around with an endless supply of our favorite love quotes at the top of our mind and on the tip of our tongue. Honestly, if we did, we might sound even more awkward than we do otherwise.
Luckily, the internet is an endless resource for finding inspirational phrases and sayings that poets, musicians, artists, philosophers, and screenwriters have written or uttered, putting this most elusive and complex feeling into words.
We certainly can’t all expect to be Shakespeare, Joyce, or a Brontë sister, but we absolutely can sift through the treasure trove of quotes about love which they and other brilliant minds created for us all.
While every love is unique, there is a collective nature to the emotions involved in that heady mix of passion, fear, joy, worry, excitement, and trepidation.
The best love quotes are all about the feeling of «when you know, you know.»
Of course, you don’t have to take our word for it. Take your time, letting the words glide through your mind, heart, and soul. When your heart beats quickly and you can’t help but think of your own him or her, you’ll know you found the one to save (and maybe even to share with them).
So pour yourself a glass of wine, relax and picture the person who makes your heart dance. Then enjoy the beautiful words written, spoken, or sung by some of the most gifted minds in the world.
Here are our favorite famous love quotes from authors, artists, musicians, movies, and more.
1. «Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.» — Rainer Maria Rilke
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2. «Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it.» ― Nicholas Sparks, «A Walk To Remember»
3. «Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.» — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
4. «Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.» — Robert A. Heinlein
5. «All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.» — Charles M. Schulz
6. «Love loves to love love.» ― James Joyce, «Ulysses»
7. «Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.» — E.E. Cummings
8. «Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.» ― Alexander Smith
9. «Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.» — William Shakespeare, «Romeo and Juliet»
10. «Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.» — Ray Bradbury
11. «It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.» — William Makepeace Thackeray, «Vanity Fair»
12. «We’re all a little weird, and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.» — Dr. Seuss
13. «Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby: awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.» — Lemony Snicket
14. «Life is a flower of which love is the honey.» — Victor Hugo
15. «Love is quivering happiness.» — Kahlil Gibran
16. «Love; it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you. It will set you free.» — Mumford & Sons, «Sigh No More»
17. «The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference.» — Elie Wiesel
18. «Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.» — Dolly Parton
19. «Passion makes the world go round. Loves just makes it a safer place.» — Ice T
20. «Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.» — John Lennon
21. «Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.» — Lao Tzu
22. «In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities.» — János Arnay
23. «Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.» — Aristotle
24. «There is no remedy for love but to love more.» — Henry David Thoreau
25. «Love is a serious mental disease.» — Plato
26. «Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.» — Bruce Lee
27. «Love is the hardest habit to break and the most difficult to satisfy.» — Drew Barrymore
28. «Do you know how you tell real love? It’s when someone else’s interest trumps your own. I like to put it that way: trumps your own. Love of somebody else — of family, of your kids — becomes the most important, most worthwhile thing in your life. It’s what you foster and protect.» — Brad Pitt
29. «Love is a game that two can play and both win.» ― Eva Gabor
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30. «We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.» — Orson Wells
31. «I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say: ‘You have to work at being a couple.’ No, you have to want to be there.» — Vanessa Paradis
32. «The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.» — Johnny Depp
33. «Soul mates. It’s extremely rare, but it exists. It’s sort of like twin souls tuned into each other.» — «What Dreams May Come»
34. «Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.» — Vincent Van Gogh
35. «Love is the greatest refreshment in life.» — Pablo Picasso
36. «Love is all around us.» — «Love, Actually»
37. «You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known, but even that is an understatement.» — F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. «Love is a friendship set to music.» — E. Joseph Cossman
39. «Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.» — Mahatma Gandhi
40. «Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.» — Martin Luther King, Jr.
41. «Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.» — Diane Arbus
42. «If there’s any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it’s almost impossible to succeed, but … who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt.» — «Before Sunrise»
43. «The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds and that’s what you’ve given me.» — Nicholas Sparks, «The Notebook»
44. «Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.» — «The Princess Bride»
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45. «I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.» — «Notting Hill»
46. «True love is singing karaoke ‘Under Pressure’ and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.» — Mindy Kaling
47. «Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.» — Benjamin Franklin
48. «Dax helped me learn that I don’t have it all figured out. Sometimes that’s the greatest gift someone can give you.» — Kristen Bell
49. «Being in love is the worst. I mean it’s the best, but it’s so hard and scary to open your heart to someone. The point is, vulnerability is the key to happiness. Vulnerable people are powerful people.» — Amy Poehler
50. «When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.» — Taylor Swift
51. «Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.» — Katharine Hepburn
52. “It’s always wrong to hate but its never wrong to love.” — Lady Gaga
53. «Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.» — Emily Brontë, «Wuthering Heights»
54. «The best smell in the world is that man that you love.» — Jennifer Aniston
55. «To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.» — Madonna
56. «You always gain by giving love.» — Reese Witherspoon
57. «If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.» — Princess Diana
58. «A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.» — Frank Sinatra
59. «When you’re lucky enough to meet your one person, then life takes a turn for the best. It can’t get better than that.» — John Krasinski
60. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” — Stephen Chbosky, «The Perks of Being a Wallflower»
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Whilst there’s no doubt Shakespeare could always write a great quote about love, many famous writers down the years have done the same. In this blog post we’ve pulled together the top love quotes by famous writers, whether written or spoken:
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Victor Hugo
“‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Tennyson
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Honore de Balzac
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
A. A. Milne
“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
Michel de Montaigne
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
Charles Dickens
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”
George Eliot
“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”
J. D. Salinger
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
Henry Miller
“I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.”
Theodore Dreiser
“How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.”
Barbara Pym
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
G. K. Chesterton
“To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I’.”
Ayn Rand
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
George Eliot
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Lawrence Durrell
“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”
Stendhal
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.”
Leo Tolstoy
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“Love: the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Mark Twain
“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”
Francois Mauriac
“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
Anais Nin
“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”
Hermann Hesse
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Oscar Wilde (read about the most famous Irish authors, or see more Oscar Wilde quotes, and Oscar Wilde quotes about love)
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
Orson Welles
What do you think of this list of love quotes by famous writers – any more quotes we should include?
That’s your lot for love quotes by poets. What do you think – any great ones we’re missing? Let us know in the comments below!
Wonderful Love Quotes
Love is relatively just a normal high. It conveys up feelings that lope the array from suffering to happiness as well as can encourage us to bring about few of the craziest along with largely astonishing deeds. Some of the beautiful love quotes by famous people are listed below.
“Love is a master key which opens the gate of happiness” — Oliver Wedell Holmes
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin
“You know when you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” — Morrie Schwartz
“All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.” — Leo Tolstoy
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Herman Hesse
“Once you truly believe you’re worthy of love, you will never settle for anyone’s second best treatment.” — Charles J. Orlando
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft
“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” — Albert Einstein
“Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell
“And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God.” — Les Miserables
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” — Blaise Pascal
“If a thing loves, it is infinite.” — William Blake
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
“With love one can live even without happiness.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” — Leo Buscaglia
“It’s a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that’s been important to you. It’s actually not all that pleasurable. I don’t know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can’t bear an hour without somebody’s company.” — Colin Firth
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”- Rumi
“It’s an unexplainable feeling, an expression. It’s a touch, it’s a feel. Once you feel it, it’s like no other thing in the world.” — Snoop Dogg
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” — Lao Tzu
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” — John Lennon
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” — T. Tolis
“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” — Henry Miller
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” — Khalil Gibran
“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.” — Theodor Reik
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”- Alfred Lord Tennyson
“The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.” — Woody Allen
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” — Albert Ellis
“There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table.’” — Tom Hanks
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.” — Benjamin Franklin
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” — A. A. Milne
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” — Jodi Picoult
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.” — Elbert Hubbard
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” — Lord of The Rings
“The giving of love is an education in itself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Herman Hesse
“The more one judges, the less one loves.” — Honore de Balzac
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” — Andre Breton
“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” — When Harry Met Sally
“Love is a better teacher than duty.” — Albert Einstein
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” — Plato
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” — Erich Segal
“We are most alive when we’re in love.” — John Updike
“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” — James Thurber
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” — Ali MacGraw
“The best proof of love is trust.” — Joyce Brothers
“People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.” — Nelson Mandela
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” — Carl Sagan
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” — Bette Davis
“Fortune and love favor the brave.” — Ovid
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” — H. L. Mencken
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” — Paulo Coelho
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
“When love is not madness it is not love.” — Pedro Calderón de la Barca
“We are shaped and fashioned by those we love.” — Geothe
“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” — Julia Roberts
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” — Sophocles
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.” — Jennifer Aniston
“When two people love each other, they don’t look at each other, they look in the same direction.” — Ginger Rogers
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” — Ingrid Bergman
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” — Pablo Neruda
“Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles Schulz
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” — Oscar Wilde
“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.” — Paul McCartney
“Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.” — Hemingway
Exceeding were some of the wonderful love quotes by famous people, we hope that you must have enjoyed reading them…
By Maxime Lagacé
Maxime is the founder and chief editor of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm, peaceful and powerful mind. Learn more about him on his about page.
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Here are 110 of the best love quotes I could find.
I hope you’ll find inspiration through the beautiful words of Shakespeare, Einstein, Picasso, Thoreau, Jane Austen, and lots more.
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You call it madness, but I call it love. Don Byas
Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi
To love is risky. Not to love is foolish. Maxime Lagacé
Only one life, that soon is past. Only what’s done with love will last. Unknown
To love is to burn, to be on fire. Jane Austen
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Even better than being loved is being in love. Naval Ravikant
Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen
I know of no greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, without end. Franz Kafka
We love because it’s the only true adventure. Nikki Giovanni
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Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. Augustine of Hippo
Love is boundary-less. Angel Haze
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Simone Weil
Just in case you have forgotten today: You matter. You are loved. You are worthy. You are magical. Unknown
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. Vincent van Gogh
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A few thoughts on love…
What does love mean to you?
The way I think about it is this: love will make you live a remarkable life, BUT, there’s a high probability you’ll get hurt in the process.
After all, to love is to risk, right?
I’m sorry to disappoint you…
And that’s what happened to me in 2004 after I lost my girlfriend in a car accident.
I loved and gave a part of me and then lost it, suddenly.
Before that, I remember only beautiful moments, smiles, fun, and connection.
Then, in the following years, I wasn’t able to love as much since I’ve been hurt so badly.
I was scared to try again.
Want to know the good part?
It took me a few years, but I finally realized that I couldn’t hold myself indefinitely.
Life was meant to be lived and I preferred to give everything than have regrets.
They say love is the answer and I believe it.
What about you?
The Best Love Quotes
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True love stories never have endings. Richard Bach
Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. Barbara De Angelis
Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world. Mary Oliver
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. Maya Angelou
Him that I love, I wish to be free – even from me. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing. Jack Kornfield
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin
Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. Henry David Thoreau
I wish I had done everything on Earth with you. The Great Gatsby
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. Andre Gide
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens
Knowing, understanding and accepting yourself is your first step to everything you want in life. Maxime Lagacé
We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. Roy Croft
Love is the product of how you respond … Love is showing your partner they’re safe, you’ll catch them if they fall, and you’ll drop everything if they need you. Love is unconditional. Love doesn’t keep score. Shane Parrish
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever – only, nothing is eternal. Audre Lorde
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Felix Adler
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. Sophocles
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu
Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form. Franz Kafka
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. Marge Piercy
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara De Angelis
Part 2. Love Quotes That Are…
The Most Famous Love Quotes
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Searching for a famous love quote or author? Check out those ones by Shakespeare, Einstein, Picasso, Monroe, Thoreau, etc. Enjoy!
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. Friedrich Nietzsche
Love all, trust a few. William Shakespeare
Love is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein
There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau
Love is often the fruit of marriage. Molière
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
You look amazing. I’m so lucky. Prince Harry
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
You make me want to be a better man. Melvin Udall (As Good As It Gets)
It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other. Sean (Good Will Hunting)
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The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt
We must be our own before we can be another’s. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. Socrates
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss
Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Pablo Picasso
All you need is love. Paul McCartney
You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth. William W. Purkey
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. Rumi
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. John Lennon
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo
Short Quotes About Love
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One-liners, short love quotes, sayings, thoughts, and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, and backgrounds.
Saying no to others sometimes means saying yes to yourself. Maxime Lagacé
We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch
If you don’t love yourself who will? Naval Ravikant
He is not a lover who does not love forever. Euripides
To love is, first of all, to accept ourselves as we actually are. Thich Nhat Hanh
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones
The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard
Givers need to set limits because takers rarely do. Rachel Wolchin
Being weird together is a love language. Unknown
Be with someone who is proud to have you. Unknown
No one is you and that is your super power. Unknown
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. Madame de Stael
Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. James D. Bryden
Love is sharing your popcorn. Charles Schultz (Charlie Brown)
Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Katherine Anne Porter
Where there is great love, there are always miracles. Willa Cather
If you care enough, you will find a way. Maxime Lagacé
If you can’t stop thinking about it, it’s a good thing. It means you’re alive. Maxime Lagacé
Whoso loves, believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You are enough. Unknown
The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich
Inspirational Love Quotes
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Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person. Thich Nhat Hanh
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King Jr
Close your eyes, take your time and listen. What does your heart says? Maxime Lagacé
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. Soren Kierkegaard
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Washington Thurman
Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn’t sentimental. It doesn’t have to be pretty, yet it doesn’t deny pain. Sharon Salzberg
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. Barbara De Angelis
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her! Charles Dickens
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing. Lorraine Hansberry
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. Barbara De Angelis
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. William Arthur Ward
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. George MacDonald
I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone. J.R.R. Tolkien
Some call it passion, motivation, madness, foolishness, intuition, inspiration. Others don’t care at all and just do it because of that small voice inside. Maxime Lagacé
Through you, I realized that life gave me everything. Maxime Lagacé
A source of trouble is our unruly minds. We can counter that by developing a warm heart. We need to effect an inner transformation, to understand that love and affection are a real source of joy. Dalai Lama
In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. ‘Deserves’ is not the point. And ‘owes’ is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is – in the right hands, everything that you give, you get. Amy Bloom
There is a love, that blazes up and is forgotten; there is a love until death. Søren Kierkegaard
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? Helen Keller
Love is the beauty of the soul. Augustine of Hippo
I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. Helen Keller
‘Light! Give me light!’ was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. Helen Keller
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. Saint Francis de Sales
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious. Marcel Proust
Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person. James Thurber
We need not think alike to love alike. David Ferenc
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This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply – in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision “I love myself”. Kamal Ravikant
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“Love someone who leaves so many holes in you that if they were to walk away, half of your soul would go with them.-Emery Allen
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.-Rumi
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all once…-John Green
“The Sun loved the Moon so much he died every night just to let her breathe.-Unknown
“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.-Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveller’s Wife
“We loved with a love that was more than love.-Edgar Allan Poe
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When love is not madness, it is not love.-Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.-Oscar Wilde
“Love conquers all.-Virgil
“Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.-Mahatma Gandhi
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.-Henry Miller
“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.-Rumi
“I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.-Leo Tolstoy
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.-Oscar Wilde
“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.-Thich Nhat Hanh
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.-Tom Robbins
“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.-St. Augustine
“Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.-Mark Twain
“Love! Love until the night collapses.-Pablo Neruda
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.-Nicholas Sparks
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.-Rumi
“Love is real, real is love.-John Lennon
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love is a friendship set to music.-Joseph Campbell
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.-Rumi
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We accept the love we think we deserve.-Stephen Chbosky
“Come live in my heart and pay no rent.-Samuel Lover
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.-Katharine Hepburn
“The course of true love never did run smooth.-William Shakespeare
“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.-Plato
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.-James Baldwin
“The best things in life can never be kept; they must be given away. A Smile, a Kiss, and Love.-Tony Farrar
“Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.-Virginia Woolf
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. -Plato
“People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.-Douglas Yates
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.-Dalai Lama XIV
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.-Voltaire
“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.-André Breton
“A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night-James Patterson
“Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce — which is called passion.-Clarice Lispector
“The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.-Woody Allen
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.-William Shakespeare
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.-Orson Welles
“Women are made to be loved, not understood.-Oscar Wilde
“We were together. I forget the rest.-Walt Whitman
“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.-Leo Buscaglia
“Who, being loved, is poor?-Oscar Wilde
“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star…-E.E. Cummings
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.-Agatha Christie
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.-James Baldwin
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.-Janos Arnay
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.-Robert A. Heinlein
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.-Willa Cather
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.-Pablo Picasso
“The future for me is already a thing of the past. You were my first love and you will be my last.-Bob Dylan
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.-Ursula K. Le Guin
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.-David Henry Thoreau
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Love does not obey our expectations; it obeys our intentions.-~Lloyd Strom
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When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.-Albert Einstein
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.-Lao Tzu
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.-Gustave Flaubert
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The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.-Paulo Coelho
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Love is the flower of life, and the blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.-D.H Lawrence
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.-Kurt Vonnegut
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Paradise is always where love dwells.-Jean Paul Richter
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.-Billie Holiday
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.-Maya Angelou
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Perhaps love is the process of my gently leading you back to yourself.-Antoine de Saint
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Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.-Nicholas Sparks
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Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.-Chris Moore
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He loved her, he loved her, and until he’d loved her she had never minded being alone….-Truman Capote
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The best way to love is to love like you have never been hurt.-Unknown
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.-Bill Wilson
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This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.-Paulo Coelho
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We need not think alike to love alike.-Francis David
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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.-Emmet Fox
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Love me and the world is mine.-David Reed
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Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.-David Byrne
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The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.-Kahlil Gibran
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When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.-Jess C. Scott
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Love is a great beautifier.-Louisa May Alcott
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The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever.-Nicholas Sparks
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Though lovers be lost love shall not.-Dylan Thomas
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And, in the end… The love you take is equal to the love you make.-Paul McCartney
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You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.-Julia Roberts
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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.-John Lennon
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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.-Peace Pilgrim
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If there’s a thing I’ve learned in my life it’s to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don’t.-Cassandra Clare
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Love is friendship set on fire.-Jeremy Taylor
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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.-Joan Crawford
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.-Robert Frost
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Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?-Susan Fletcher, Eve Green
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.-Emma, Jane Austen
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There is always something left to love.-Gabriel García Márquez
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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.-Albert Einstein
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I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes-Vladimir Nabokov
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.-Neil Gaiman
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Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world. That’s beautiful.-Milan Kundera
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.-Gautama Buddha
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