Here’s the thing about romantic love — it’s hard to put into words. But fortunately, these inspirational love quotes will make finding new ways to say «I love you» a whole lot easier.
When you fall in love, you want the other person to be happy, and being part of their happiness can inspire you to accomplish some of the most amazing feats you’ll ever undertake. Loving and being loved can make you feel more fulfilled than you’ve ever been.
And yet, while true love can get your creative juices flowing, many of us struggle to express exactly what we feel.
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Inspirational quotes about love can help explain those butterflies you get in your stomach, that warm fuzzy feeling in your head, and the way your heart skips a million beats in your chest. Share them with your true love, and watch the magic happen.
100 Inspirational Love Quotes To Say, «I Love You»
1. «I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.» — Angelita Lim
Love is blind to imperfections.
2. «I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.»
How love feels.
3. «The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.» — Victor Hugo
Love brings happiness.
4. «All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.» — Leo Tolstoy
What you learn from love.
5. «I’m much more me when I’m with you.»
Why love matters.
6. «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
Why love hurts.
7. «The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.» — Helen Keller
How love colors your world.
8. «To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.» — T. Tolis
Love is giving.
9. «In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.» — Theodor Reik
Love is unselfish.
10. «Maybe the only vow we ever need to offer the one we love is this: I will never, not for a sliver of a second, make you feel alone.» — Tyler Knott Gregson
All there is to say.
11. «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
Love does not judge.
12. «Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.» — Lao-Tzu
Love is strength.
13. «I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.» — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love brings joy.
14. «Where there is love there is life.» — Mahatma Gandhi
Where love lies.
15. «If I could give you one thing in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes, only then would you realize how special you are to me.»
When their happiness means everything.
16. «I can’t promise to fix all your problems, but I can promise you won’t have to face them all alone.»
When you know you won’t have to fight your battles alone.
17. «So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.» — Pablo Coelho
When the universe brought you together.
18. «At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.» ― Plato
How love is poetic.
19. «His love roared louder than her demons.»
Love makes all the negative thoughts disappear.
20. «One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.» ― Sophocles
Love is freedom.
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21. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.” — «Moulin Rouge»
There is no greater lesson in life than love.
22. «The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.» — Nicholas Sparks, «The Notebook»
How love works.
23. «You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.» ― Jodi Picoult, «My Sister’s Keeper»
When love is real.
24. «And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God.» — Victor Hugo, «Les Miserables»
Where love is, God is.
25. «I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.» — J.R.R. Tolkien, «Lord of The Rings»
Love without end.
26. «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, «Winnie the Pooh»
Love means togetherness.
27. «If I know what love is, it is because of you.» — Herman Hesse, «Narcissus and Goldmund»
Love is a teacher.
28. «Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.» — Anna (Julia Roberts) to William (Hugh Grant) in «Notting Hill»
Love is vulnerable.
29. «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.» — Harry (Billy Crystal) in «When Harry Met Sally»
Love is crazy, mad, wonderful.
30. «You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.» — Jane Austen’s «Pride & Prejudice»
Love is magical.
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31. «Once I knew you I never wanted to know anyone else.» — Leo Christopher
Once
I knew you
I never wanted
to know anyone else.— Leo Christopher (@Leo_Words) June 9, 2015
It only takes one.
32. «Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.» — Bette Davis
Why love hurts.
33. «Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.» — H. L. Mencken
How love works.
34. «I never want to stop making memories with you.» — Pierre Jeanty
When love means all your favorite memories are with each other.
35. «You can’t rush something you want to last forever.»
Love cannot be rushed.
36. «We were together. I forget the rest.» — Walt Whitman
When love makes everything else disappear.
37. «P.S. I love you.» — Cecelia Ahern
When you can’t help but write love letters.
38. «I love you past the moon and miss you beyond the stars.» — J.M. Storm
When your love is bigger than this Earth.
39. «Love you more.»
When it’s impossible to love anyone as much.
40. «Saw your worst and I stayed.»
When you stick around when things get tough.
41. «I looked at him as a friend until I realized I loved him.»
When your love is your best friend.
42. «Darling, you are all I ever wanted love to be.»
When your love is everything you’ve ever wanted.
43. «You are what I need in my life. You are my one.»
When you don’t want to live without your love.
44. «The first time you touched me, I knew I was born to be yours.»
When your love was meant to be.
45. «I’ll never have enough of your lips.»
When love’s kisses are addictive.
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46. «The greatest thing you’ll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return.» — Nat King Cole, «Nature Boy»
Why love is important.
47.»And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.» — Sir Paul McCartney, «The End» (by The Beatles)
Love is give and take.
48. «All of me loves all of you.» — John Legend, «All of Me»
Love is everything.
49. «However far away, I will always love you. However long I stay, I will always love you. Whatever words I say, I will always love you. I will always love you.» — The Cure, «Lovesong»
When your love will last forever, no matter what.
50. «You and me together, through the days and nights. I don’t worry ’cause everything’s gonna be alright.» — Alicia Keys, «No One»
True love keeps you safe.
51. «It was always you.» — Maroon 5, «It Was Always You»
When love remains true.
52. «And when you’re needing your space to do some navigating, I’ll be here patiently waiting to see what you find.» — Jason Mraz, «I Won’t Give Up»
Because love is patient.
53. «Before the day I met you, life was so unkind. But you’re the key to my peace of mind.» — Aretha Franklin, «(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman»
Love can bring you peace like you’ve never known.
54. «I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.» — Ben Folds, «The Luckiest»
When no words can describe your love.
55. «You give me the most gorgeous sleep that I’ve ever had.» — No Doubt, «Underneath It All»
Love makes you sleep sweet.
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56. «All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.» — Charles Schulz
Love is silly.
57. «If you are lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.»
When your love is just as weird as you.
58. «Because I could watch you for a single minute and find a thousand things that I love about you.»
Because love makes everything beautiful.
59. «I still haven’t figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do.» — William C. Hannan
When love makes you infatuated with every little thing they do.
60. «In French, you don’t say ‘I miss you.’ You say ‘Tu me manques’, which means ‘you are missing from me.’ I love that.»
When you’re missing your other half.
61. «Real love doesn’t meet you at your best. It meets you in your mess.»
Love is for better or worse.
62. «Your voice is my favorite sound.»
When you can listen to him talk for hours.
63. «I am totally completely eye-popping seriously groundbreaking passionately deliciously in love with you.»
When you’re madly in love and don’t care who knows it.
64. «You’re pretty much my most favorite of all time in the history of ever.»
When love is defined by your person.
65. «I remember the first day I ever looking into your eyes and felt my entire world flip.»
When you knew immediately this love was special.
66. «I just wanna see you. Hold you. Hug you. Touch you. Kiss you. Cuddle with you. Love you.»
When you feel like being lovey-dovey.
67. «You’re all my heart ever talks about.»
When all you do is talk about your love.
68. «I love you. You annoy me more than I ever thought possible. But I want to spend every irritating minute with you.»
When you even love how much they bug you.
69. «You are my favorite notification.»
When love lights up your phone.
70. «We fight, we kiss, we hug, we text, we talk, we argue, we laugh, we smile, we love … That’s us.»
When your relationship isn’t perfect, but you wouldn’t want it any other way.
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71. «I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.»
Love is a choice.
72. «I realized I was thinking of you, and I began to wonder how long you’d been on my mind. Then it occurred to me: Since I met you, you’ve never left.»
How you love like crazy.
73. «I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.» — Leo Christopher
Love grows and grows.
74. «Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.»
Love is life.
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75. «We are shaped and fashioned by those we love.» — Geothe
When love finds you
76. «When love is not madness it is not love.» ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Love is wild and crazy.
77. «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
Love is untamed.
78. «Love is so short, forgetting is so long.» ― Pablo Neruda
How love should be.
79. «I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer.»
How love begins.
80. «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
Love is unselfish.
81. «I hope you know that every time I tell you to get home safe, stay warm, have a good day, or sleep well what I am really saying is I love you. I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words’ meanings.»
Love is the little things.
82. «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
How love lasts.
83. «‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.» — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Love is worth it.
84. «When I say I love you more, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most.»
How love changes over time.
85. «I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you.»
Love is unconditional.
86. «There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.» — Leo Christopher
Love makes you lose your mind a little.
87. «She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person.» — E. Leventhal
Love feels like coming home.
88. «Someone who really loves you sees what a mess you can be, how moody you can get, how hard you are to handle, but still wants you.»
Loves accepts you and all of your flaws.
89. «Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.» — J.D. Salinger
When you share the same sense of humor.
90. «If you only knew how much those little moments with you mattered to me.»
When it’s the little things that matter most.
91. «How strange to dream of you even when I am wide awake.» — d.j.
When you found the person of your dreams.
92. «Sometimes, someone comes into your life, so unexpectedly, takes your heart by surprise, and changes your life forever.»
When your life will never be the same because love is in it.
93. «And suddenly all the love songs were about you.»
When every love song reminds you of your love.
94. «If I did anything right in my life, it was when I gave my heart to you.»
When love is the best decision you’ve made.
95. «I love that you are my person and I am yours, that whatever door we come to, we will open it together.» — A.R. Asher
When you go through life together.
96. «I was, and I remain, utterly and completely and totally in love with you.» — J.R. Ward
When you’ll be in love forever.
97. «And when I loved you, I realized, I have never truly loved anyone. I realized, I never will truly love anyone the way I love you.»
When your love is one of a kind.
98. «I fall more deeply in love with you, every single day.»
When your love only grows deeper over time.
99. «It’s not being in love that makes me happy. It is the person that I am in love with that does.»
When your love is the only one you’ll ever want.
100. «I love you, idiot.» — «Gilmore Girls»
When you’re simply in love.
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Love is a many splendored thing, and wordsmiths through the ages have tried to tie it down and tell us what it’s like. Many times they miss the mark or only get it partially right. Here are some of the most beautiful love quotes that do a good job of capturing the essence and the grandness of what love really means.
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1. D. H. Lawrence and the Desire for Love
“In every living thing there is the desire for love.” ~ D. H. Lawrence | Tweet this
From the biggest to the smallest creature there is a desire to love. It’s interesting to think that each living thing out there is looking for love at its core. This must be why we resonate with pets and with nature because it puts us in touch with things that are just as alive as we are. We can feel a good energy from our dogs and cats and we can talk a walk through the woods and feel that desire for love emanating from the plants and the wild animals making their home in the brush. It’s all very exhilarating to think about, and is a feeling we can capture every day.
2. Paulo Coelho and the Fragility of Love
“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.” ~ Paulo Coelho | Tweet this
So often love is thought of as either strong or weak, but this quote reminds us that love can be fragile while still remaining strong. It sounds illogical or counterintuitive to think of something being fragile and strong at the same time, as most things aren’t. But love is a special kind of energy that is able to both at once. You don’t have to question whether your love is strong just because it seems like it may break from time to time. This is not proof that it is weak, but rather the opposite.
3. Lennon Tells All That You Need
“All you need is love. Love is all you need.” ~ John Lennon | Tweet this
There really isn’t much more to say when you wrap it up so neatly. All a person really needs is love, and that’s all they need. It’s simple and a little repetitive, but it’s powerful all the same and it’s one of the most feel good quotes on love that’s out there. Because this quote is set to music in a song it’s easy to sing along with and have a positive energy in your heart. It’s just as true now as when it was first written, and it will likely stand the test of time as each new generation sees the truth that lies in it.
4. Willa Cather on Love and Miracles
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” ~ Willa Cather | Tweet this
How fun to think that love and miracles are connected, but the power of love is well documented, and it only makes sense that it would be able to spur on great things that would otherwise seem impossible. Albert Einstein’s quote about viewing life as everything being a miracle goes along with this quote, and when you start recognizing the miracles all around us you can then start to discover the love that is behind each of them. You can also look to create miracles in your own life by ramping up the amount of love you’re feeling.
5. Ghandi on Life and Love
“Where there is love there is life.” ~ Mahatma Ghandi | Tweet this
Love and life are intertwined and this quote puts it quite concisely that where you find love you’ll find life. Some may even say that love and life are one and the same, and that life is just an extension of love or vice versa. Love gives life its meaning, and without it there isn’t much life at all. It’s important to fill your life with love and to love what’s in your life if you want to get the most out of it. You can also look for love in all forms of life, which is why we love our pets so much and have a fascination with other animals and creatures, as they’re all expressions of life itself.
6. Max Muller Connects Flowers and Humans with Love
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” ~ Max Muller | Tweet this
What an interesting analogy. When you think of how important sunshine is to a flower’s survival, it becomes clear just how important love is for us humans. It helps us grow and develop and reach our full potential. It’s true that without the love of family, friends, and romantic love that we just can’t be the most we can be. Countless examples exist of those that are depressed and fail to be what they might have been due to a lack of love in their lives. It’s tragic, but shows that we all need to love and be loved to survive.
7. Eckhart Tolle on Recognizing Yourself
“To love is to recognize yourself in another.” ~ Eckhart Tolle | Tweet this
It’s interesting to think that the things we love about another are probably qualities that we have ourselves, or that we wish we had. This doesn’t mean you’re being narcissistic when you love someone else, it’s just saying that we’re all one and we’re all in this together so when you see yourself in another and love that person you are contributing to the overall amount of love in existence. It’s also great to think that those that love you have found a bit of themselves in you.
8. Melanie Griffith Lets Us In on a Secret
“There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.” ~ Melanie Griffith | Tweet this
Instead of wondering how to drive a woman crazy with other methods, love works much more effectively and reliably. And it’s the good kind of crazy, the kind that makes her think of you and want to be with you all of the time. This is a cute quote that’s based on sound reasoning and has been time tested throughout the years. It’s also the one place that is often neglected or thought of as a back burner sort of priority. But it should really be the first place that gets the most attention.
9. Virgil States It Simply
“Love conquers all.” ~ Virgil | Tweet this
There isn’t anything that love can’t conquer, and it’s made quite clear in this quote. Three simple words and love is given its full credit as being the one force that can’t be overcome. At times when you feel like things are out of control and look hopeless, it likely means that there hasn’t been enough love applied to it. Try loving more, not less, and you’ll find that even the biggest problems and the most dreadful people can’t overtake the power of love and all that it can provide. It’s refreshing to know that love is more powerful than hate, or anger, or any other negative emotion.
10. Emmet Fox on Love and Power
“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.” ~ Emmet Fox | Tweet this
Love is a very powerful thing, and those that can wield it hold a great advantage over those that don’t. This isn’t the sort of power that is often talked about, like being the president of a country, or the CEO of a major corporation. It’s a different sort of power, one that anyone can have, and we can all be the most powerful person in the world. When you’re bursting with love things are bound to go your way, that’s just how amazing it is.
11. James Thurber and What Love Means
“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” ~ James Thurber | Tweet this
Love doesn’t have to be rainbows and butterflies all of the time, and this is saying that love is what gets you through the tough times with someone, and the fact that you’ve been through those times is proof enough of the love you share. It seems that many times love is broken or tossed aside when things get tough, but not when it’s real love. Real love is what gets you through those tough times and brings you closer to the person that you love.
12. Van Gogh on Love as an Art Form
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh | Tweet this
Love is an art form and loving another person can take on a different look from one person to another. You may have love for plenty of people in your life, but each one will be different, a different work of art so to speak. How you express your love is like making a painting, and you can use different colors and different styles for each one. Think of each as a masterpiece that is being painted one stroke at a time, one day at a time.
13. Richard Bach on the Ending of True Love
“True love stories never have endings.” ~ Richard Bach | Tweet this
Here’s a way to say that true love never dies. Rather than a happy ending or a sad ending, when it’s true love there’s never an ending at all. It endures all things and lasts forever. When you think of love as an energy, and then remember that energy cannot be created or destroyed, you’re really tapping into an endless source. That’s how love can carry on through the ages, even past our physical lifetimes and into the hereafter. It’s the sort of thing that they write fairy tales about, but it’s real and can be had by anyone that chooses to open themselves up to true love.
14. Johnny Depp on Love, Dogs, and Infants
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.” ~ Johnny Depp | Tweet this
It’s interesting to think that love is such a powerful and huge force that the only ones that can fully appreciate it are those that don’t overthink it. What Johnny is saying here is that a full grown adult will have too much baggage and misconceptions about what love is, that they won’t be able to wrap their head around pure love. But it is possible to see pure love in action, because dogs and infants are able to express it completely.
15. Jackson Pollock on Friendship and Music
“Love is friendship set to music.” ~ Jackson Pollock | Tweet this
What a beautiful quote on love, one that shows how love can be and should be. Friendships are amazing on their own, but when you picture all of the great things that come with a friendship, and then set that to music, you get a clearer picture of what love is. There isn’t anything better than being in love with your best friend, and it’s important to maintain that friendship feeling, with someone you love to spend time with, that you can confide in, that you can count on when things get tough, and that knows all of your flaws and loves you anyway.
16. Robert A. Heinlein on Love and Happiness
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein | Tweet this
We all want to be happy, and our own happiness is paramount, but when you find yourself wishing happiness on another, even more so than yourself, you discover that you really love them. It may be startling when you first realize that you essentially care more about someone else than you do yourself, because it goes against our innate instincts of self preservation, but this is the cornerstone of love. It happens between parents and children, husband and wife, as well as anyone that rises up to that level of importance in your life.
17. Conor Oberst Tells Us What He Really Wants
“I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.” ~ Conor Oberst | Tweet this
Here’s an amazing sentiment that gets down to the base of what feeling love for others really means. It’s like a nice warm glow that you can shine on everyone you really care about. You can also let it shine on people you don’t even know. It doesn’t have to be an actual physical thing, you can just radiate good vibrations to them and see how they respond. Not everyone will accept your loving vibes, but that’s on them. It matters not who responds, just that you hold that feeling in your own heart.
18. Tom Robins on Creating Love
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” ~ Tom Robbins | Tweet this
It’s true that the perfect lover isn’t out there, it’s about creating the perfect love with the person that you care about most. The notion that someone is out there that is perfect for you is based on a false premise. You are the creator of your world, so you don’t need to seek them out and find them like the dating sites say you do, you are creating things in your own reality, and that is true about the love of your life just as much as anything else. So get busy today creating the perfect love in your life.
19. Elizabeth Gilbert and the Strength of Her Love
“You have no idea how strong my love is!” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert | Tweet this
This is a fun quote about love that has a bit of a warning to it, but not in any sort of negative way. It’s all about letting someone know that your love is so strong that it can take on anything, and if you fully release it it can be an overwhelming experience. Have you ever felt the power of your own ability to love and been a little scared by it? There’s no need to be scared, because it’s only a positive force, and there’s no limit to how much you can love.
20. Haruki Murakami and the Unpredictability of Love
“People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can’t predict it. That’s love.” ~ Haruki Murakami | Tweet this
When love happens to you it feels like it couldn’t have gone any other way. Many times it drops out of nowhere and hits you unexpectedly. Although this quote is quite nice, there are also those loves that creep up on you, and develop over time. But more to the point, it’s saying that you can’t logically think of love, because it defies logic and it can even defy your rational thinking. You may not be looking for love, or even wanting it, but it will find you when you least expect it. It’s the unpredictability of love that makes it so exciting, and makes it so everyone loves it when it happens to them.
21. Picasso on Love as a Refreshment
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” ~ Pablo Picasso | Tweet this
Life has its trials and tribulations, its long days, its hard days, but one thing you can always count on is love to refresh and rejuvenate you so that life is fun and worth living. Without love as a refreshment we’d have a rough go of things day in and day out. And while there are other things in life that can refresh us, this quote is saying that love is the greatest of them all. Without it, all of the other refreshing things in life wouldn’t really do the job. How can you use love to feel refreshed today?
22. Cummings Muses on Love
“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.” ~ E. E. Cummings | Tweet this
The world can be a real senseless place, but knowing that you love someone makes it more manageable. It provides you with one thing that does make sense, so you can cope with the other things in life that are pretty inane. When you think about that person it should give you a feeling of calm and ease, knowing that everything is alright. And you aren’t limited to that one person, you can use the love you have for everyone in your life to help make sense of the world.
23. eden ahbez on Learning the Greatest Lesson
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” ~ eden ahbez | Tweet this
This is truly one of the greatest things you can learn, and it’s not as easy as it seems at first. It may be easy enough to love someone, but to allow them to love you is the tricky part. Or maybe you’re able to be loved, but you have trouble loving in return. It’s a skill that must be mastered in order to enjoy life to the fullest, and is something that many are still learning to acquire. If you feel that you are not receiving enough enough love, perhaps it’s because you are not accepting that love.
24. Thoreau on the Healing Power of Love
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” ~ David Henry Thoreau | Tweet this
You’ve just go to keep loving more and more if you’ve been hurt by love. Love can sometimes hurt, but there’s only one solution and that’s to keep loving, not to stop loving. If your answer to being hurt by love was to stop loving, it only makes things worse and keeps you from amazing experiences. Love is a powerful force, and anything that powerful can also cause pain, but there’s only one way to get past that and that’s to love even more. Love yourself, love your family, and don’t be afraid to fall in love again.
25. Jeaniene Frost on Time and Love
“Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time.” ~ Jeaniene Frost | Tweet this
Time as we are familiar with it is just a creation that we use, and love has no connection to it. Love keeps right on going regardless of time, because it’s not confined to our physical presence and subjected to the same laws that we are. It’s almost silly to think of love and time simultaneously because one has nothing to do with the other. “Timeless love” is a redundant phrase because love is timeless at its core.
26. Aristotle on Souls, Bodies, and Love
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ~ Aristotle | Tweet this
Have you ever felt that you and the person you love were separated into two bodies? That’s the feeling of love and the basis of the concept of a soulmate. It’s as if you two are connected so deeply that part of you is in their body and part of them is in your body. It can be a strange feeling at first, but once you embrace it it can be wonderful. This doesn’t mean that you are half a person, or that you are half a soul, but rather that one fully developed soul has been split into two bodies.
27. Teresa of Ávila on Love and Worth
“It is love alone that gives worth to all things.” ~ Teresa of Ávila | Tweet this
It’s been said that there isn’t any meaning to things unless you give it meaning, and love is the emotion or the energy behind it all. Think about the things in your life that you love. That’s a pretty intense emotion to apply to an inanimate object, but it’s perfectly okay to love the things in your life and to give them worth and meaning through that love. Just be sure not to get too attached to them, because at the end of the day they’re just things.
28. David Levithan on How Love Is Made
“Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.” ~ David Levithan | Tweet this
It’s amazing to think of love as being woven, and using hundreds of threads. It’s a way to show its complexity, and shows that it’s not just something that happens all at once. It is also pointing out the autonomy of love, saying that it weaves itself, so that you don’t need to be a part of the process, it’s always flowing, always perpetuating itself. One thing is interesting and that’s what the threads are that are weaving love. Are these threads shared experiences or different people, or a string of emotions? The vagueness of what these threads are makes this quote extra enticing because it is up to your own interpretation and experience with love.
29. Lang Leav on How Love Is Like a Simple Game
“Love is a game of tic-tac-toe, constantly waiting for the next x or o.” ~ Lang Leav | Tweet this
Here’s a cute saying about love that plays on the classic tic-tac-toe game and references the use of x’s and o’s as in kisses and hugs. In the game you’re trying to get three in a row, and each player takes a turn giving an x or an o, so it paints the picture of exchanging hugs and kisses back and forth with your love. It also encourages playfulness with love, as well as keeping that physical connection. Often with those we love it can be hard to keep the physical affection going, especially with busy lives. but it’s important to make sure they feel wanted and loved in all areas of life.
30. Lao Tzu on the Depths of Love
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~ Lao Tzu | Tweet this
This is motivation to go out there and love deeply, because you’ll be loved deeply in return and you’ll be stronger and more courageous as a result. It takes strength to be courageous, and courage to be strong, so all of this is interconnected. The opposite is also true, if you’re not getting enough love you might not feel as strong, and if you’re not giving enough love you might not feel as courageous. Make an effort to love deeply and you’ll find that this gets reciprocated and strength comes as a result.
31. Henry Ward Beecher on Love and Life
“Love is the river of life in the world.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher | Tweet this
It’s nice to think of love as a river, and even more great to think of it as the river of life. Love is what makes the world go round and produces new life. When you think that we don’t really know when life on Earth began or how it’s clear that there was some force that started it off. These days it’s love that breathes life into things, and it’s amazing to think that we’re all a part of it and that it’s flowing strongly. It permeates all parts of the world and life forms can be found pretty much everywhere, even in the most remote places, because love is there too.
32. Victor Hugo on the Sweetness of Life
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” ~ Victor Hugo | Tweet this
Love and nature go hand in hand and here’s a quote that shows that love is what fills up life with sweetness. A flower is just a flower, but when it is used to make honey it is put to the best use possible. What’s unclear from this quote is what the bees that produce the honey are analogous to. Perhaps it is us humans that are the bees, and we are making love out of the life that we are given.
33. Julie Kagawa Waxes Poetic on Love
“You are my heart, my life, my entire existence.” ~ Julie Kagawa | Tweet this
When you’re in love this is what it feels like, that someone is your heart, the thing that makes you move, as well as your life and your existence, the larger part of who you are. It can be a bit daunting to realize that someone has become this big a part of you, but you can relax into the warm feelings that arise when you realize that it is perfectly okay to love someone this much and in all likelihood they are feeling the same way about you.
34. Torquato Tasso on Wasted Time
“Any time not spent on love is wasted.” ~ Torquato Tasso | Tweet this
This seems pretty extreme at first but when you think about it it is the only way to go. You should be doing what you love, and thinking about the people that you love all the time under ideal circumstances. If you are not in love with what you are doing, you should try to find something that you enjoy doing and even love so that it doesn’t feel like work. And if you are not spending time on something you love you can at least keep your mind on the things that you do love in order to make unpleasant tasks more pleasant.
35. Shakespeare Gets It Right
“When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.” ~ William Shakespeare | Tweet this
This is a beautiful quote because it wraps up all of the good feelings of falling in love, and having the other person acknowledge those feelings and smile with gracious acceptance. Leave it to Shakespeare to come up with a concise way to sum up what it feels like to be in love, and being able to convey what that experience is like in simple terms. He was quite the wordsmith to have the ability to write into words feelings that are so big and universal, but usually remain ineffable.
36. Sorin Cerin on Infinite Love
“Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity.” ~ Sorin Cerin | Tweet this
Love is infinite because it is a positive energy, and you can get a glimpse of that when you look into the eyes of someone that is in love, or that loves you. Have you ever locked gazes with the love in your life and seen that the love they have for you goes on and on? If not you should try it out today and you’ll be blown away. The eyes really are windows into the soul and if that soul is emitting positive love it will be apparent in their eyes. You’ll also be transmitting this into theirs and they’ll be blown away by the power of this love.
37. Elbert Hubbard Tells How to Keep Love
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.” ~ Elbert Hubbard | Tweet this
This quote is a reminder to put most of your effort into giving love, rather than worrying about how much love you receive. It seems that in order to keep love you need to give it away, and that trying to hoard love is a losing proposition. If you are trying to hoard it it means that you are thinking about it the wrong way. Instead shift your focus to giving even more love so you can keep even more love.
38. Tahereh Mafi on Unconditional Love
“I love you exactly as you are.” ~ Tahereh Mafi | Tweet this
So many times a person that loves us also wants us to change, so it’s nice to hear a quote that lets us be who we are and be loved anyway. Real love shouldn’t involve asking someone to change, it is all about loving someone even though they might not be perfect. Looking for perfection is futile and it makes more sense to love someone for who they really are rather than loving them and then asking them to change to meet your specific requirements.
39. David Viscott on the Warmth of Love
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” ~ David Viscott | Tweet this
That warm feeling you get from those that love you, and when you are feeling love towards them, that’s the feeling of love, and it really is as warming as the sun. It’s like feeling the sun all over and all at once, so this is a perfect way to describe what it’s like to have love in your life. It’s so great realize that love comes at you from all sides, it isn’t just something that you give out and don’t get back. You are constantly in the process of giving and receiving, even though you might not be receiving love from the same people you’re giving it to.
40. Mahatma Ghandi on Breaking Barriers with Love
“What barrier is there that love cannot break?” ~ Mahatma Ghandi | Tweet this
Love can break through all barriers, as is evidenced during times of tragedy when everyone bands together regardless of race or creed. It’s at the most trying of times that we all band together, and it’s love that is the reason. It’s a shame that love is not used during times of peace and calm to help bridge the divides that have formed through years of ignorance. Our world is so interconnected now that it’s possible to show love in a variety of ways, and perhaps we’re finally making steps to love each citizen of the world regardless of any perceived barrier.
41. Tim Bergling Says Loves a Prize
“Life’s a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.” ~ Tim Bergling | Tweet this
It’s very apt to view love as a prize, because that’s how it feels when you have it. But at the same time it shouldn’t be viewed that only a few can share in the prize, or that there aren’t enough prizes for everyone that’s playing. Life really is made for everyone, and we each can experience love if we’re willing to let it in. Love as a prize can be romantic love or it can be the love you feel for your family, or your pet. It’s that specific feeling that’s the reason we’re all here in the first place, and you don’t have to earn it or compete for it, you can feel it right now if you decide to.
42. Leigh Hunt and Traveling with Loved Ones
“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” ~ Leigh Hunt | Tweet this
What a sweet way to say that home is where the love is. If you’ve ever felt homesick it’s likely because you were away from those that love you. It’s not the actual house you’re longing for, but the love that fills that house with warmth and coziness. Being out on your own and far from home can also mean that you’re far away from those that you care about most. This can create a lot of uneasy feelings often described as homesickness. When you travel with those that you love it’s as if you can take the good feelings from home with you and it’s far superior than traveling solo.
43. Khalil Gibron Describes Love
“Love is trembling happiness.” ~ Khalil Gibron | Tweet this
What a great way to describe love, and happiness and love are very close in the vibrations they provide. It’s hard to be happy without love, and it’s hard to love without being happy. A trembling happiness is one that is so extreme that it leaves you with physical signs of being happy and excited. And love is a feeling that deserves to be described like this. It’s so hard to put a point on love that so many poets and authors and deep thinkers have tried, but it’s a feeling, and so far even the best descriptions leave out some aspect of love.
44. Henry Rollins and How Love Heals
“Love heals scars love left” ~ Henry Rollins | Tweet this
It’s true, love can leave scars, but it’s just as true that love can heal those scars as well. If you’ve been hurt by love, or are with someone that’s been hurt by love, you can heal your pain or theirs just by providing more love to them. It’s possible to realize that love is the answer, not the problem. If you’re showing the scars of love you can make them better by learning to love again, or learning to be loved again. It’s no use trying to avoid love or being afraid of getting more scars from it, as it is a healing force much more than it is a harmful one.
45. bell hooks on What Makes Love
“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.” ~ bell hooks | Tweet this
Love is a combination of many things, and here she’s naming a few of the top ingredients. Perhaps it’s better to think that love encompasses all of these things, rather than it being a combination of them. Love encompasses all positive and beneficial things, and it’s true that caring, commitment, knowing, being responsible, respectful and trustful are all founded in love. Love is at the root of all of these, and at the root of all things positive in this world.
46. Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Finding Something to Love
“There is always something left to love.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez | Tweet this
Never give up on love, as there is always a chance to express your love and give your love. You can give it to a person or people, or you can let it flow into the work you do. You can also just feel love for yourself, so there really is always something to love. If you feel that you’ve run out of things to love, or the person you love isn’t in your life anymore, you can still love them, and you can also love new things around you. There’s no shortage of love, and the more you love the more you’re able to love, so get busy!
47. Emerson Tells It Like It Is
“Love, and you shall be loved.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson | Tweet this
If we’re afraid to love because we’re worried that it won’t be reciprocated, it can cause us to love only a little, or not at all. But that’s not an accurate way to view love, because you will be loved in return, but it might not be from the source you’re expecting. The universe doesn’t dabble in particulars, but if you start to love you’ll feel it come back to you, but it may come from some surprising sources. When it does line up that you’re being loved in return by the person you’re loving, it makes it something really special.
48. Mitch Albom and How We Are Like Birds
“Without love we are like birds with broken wings.” ~ Mitch Albom | Tweet this
Here’s the perfect way to show that love is what makes us fly. A bird with broken wings has lost its essence, and humans without the capacity to love have also lost their essence. A bird can still survive with broken wings, but not nearly as long as they could if they were able to fly. The soaring feeling you have when you are feeling love is akin to a bird in flight, and it only makes sense that if our emotional wings are broken we are unable to feel or express our love.
49. Samuel Lover Shows How He Got His Name
“Come live in my heart and pay no rent.” ~ Samuel Lover | Tweet this
Your heart is big enough to have someone set up shop in it, and letting them stay there rent free is a nice gesture. This is a beautiful quote because it shows that you are welcoming them into your heart and not expecting anything in return. It’s a clever way of saying that they can stay there indefinitely and make themselves comfortable because you are not thinking that they need to do anything in order to earn the right to stay there. This is the sort of hospitality we all should have when we are inviting another to take up residence in our hearts.
50. Aumann and the Power of Love
“With the power of love; our two hearts can enlighten the whole world.” ~ Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann | Tweet this
Another quote on the massive power of love. When you are sharing love with another it feels like you can light up the entire earth with it, that’s how amazing it is. That’s not just lip service but real emotions that are felt when the connection is strong enough between two people. One heart may be able to light up the world, but two hearts definitely can, as long as they are shining in unison. The effect is magnified by the power of two.
51. Robert A. Heinlein Gives His Best Wishes
“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein | Tweet this
A wonderful saying that wishes the best to those that you say it to. A long life filled with plenty of love is what we’re all wanting deep down. A long life with no love in it wouldn’t be much of a life at all, and if you have love in your life then a short life just won’t cut it. The best of both worlds is having a long happy life filled with people that love you, people that you love, and plenty of experiences that make it all worthwhile.
52. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Many Aspects of Love
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Tweet this
Here’s a way of showing just how pervasive love is, you can love someone for their own qualities and also for the qualities that they bring out in you. That’s pretty impressive and something that can only be said about love. Scientists may boil down love to a series of chemical reactions and electrical impulses, but they aren’t able to explain what it is that love is, and how it makes us feel and how it brings out the best in each of us when it is present.
53. Laini Taylor and the Beauty of Love
“It was brave. It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.” ~ Laini Taylor | Tweet this
Here’s a lovely quote about love that shows it isn’t something that comes along every day. Love is brave, love is rare, love is beautiful, and it is something that many seek but have trouble finding. How can love be brave? It may mean that one must be brave in order to take on love because it has the power to leave you feeling bad if it goes away. How is love rare if it’s always available to everyone all of the time? Perhaps it’s referring to true love shared between two people in equal amounts. No matter what, it’s beautiful, as love always is.
54. Ovid on Bravery and Love
“Fortune and love favor the brave.” ~ Ovid | Tweet this
Are you brave enough for love? If you are brave you will surely be brave in love, and that’s almost a necessity when it comes to love because it can be hard goings sometimes. You have to be willing to fall flat on your face when you’re in love, and also to have your heart ripped out of you. If you are brave and can conquer your fears surrounding what it means to love and be loved you will be rewarded with the best kinds of love. Live your life controlled by fear and love will not be able to enter your domain. As a bonus you also get fortune on your side too, so to the victor goes all the spoils.
55. Ortiz and Loving Someone Deeply
“Love is not finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you can’t live without.” ~ Rafael Ortiz | Tweet this
The feeling of not being able to live without someone is part of being in love. It’s the feeling that you couldn’t cope with life without them in it, and it’s a very strong feeling, and a moment of clarity when you realize this is the case. It usually doesn’t happen all at once, but is a product of loving them so deeply and allowing them to become a bigger and bigger part of your life that you just can’t imagine what life would be if they weren’t around.
56. Rumi and How Love is Our Mother
“We are born of love. Love is our mother.” ~ Rumi | Tweet this
Love is what we are born from, the energy of love is what brings us into this world. Our source is love itself, and that’s why it can be quite confusing to have issues or hang-ups when it comes to love. It’s as if we’ve forgotten where we’ve come from, and we need to get back to our roots. The feeling of love should not be alien to us, but for many it is an odd feeling that feels foreign thanks to years of twisted beliefs and bad experiences. When you undo all of the wrong thinking behind love and realize it’s your birthright you are getting back to a better place and becoming more in line with your larger self.
57. Elizabeth Bowen and Saved Wishes
“When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.” ~ Elizabeth Bowen | Tweet this
Love is so much fun because you’re able to feel and be and do all of the things you’ve been wishing for with that special someone. It’s no surprise that these wishes have been saved up, because many times the right person to share those wishes with just isn’t around. When they finally do arrive you get to experience the thrill of a flood of wishes coming true, and they get to be the person you’ve always dreamed of. Just don’t forget to continually wish new things for when those saved up wishes run out.
58. Chris Moore and the Past Present and Future
“Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.” ~ Chris Moore | Tweet this
What an all encompassing view of what it means to fully love someone. It takes into account the past, the present, and the future. It taps into the timelessness of love and forces us to realize that it’s not just the person that exists today that we’re meant to love, but all of them and all they’ve lived. All too often we want someone to stay the same and be the same person they’ve been, but there’s no guarantee that will happen. It’s a matter of loving the person they become as well.
59. Sarah Dessen on the Greatness of Love
“Love is so unpredictable. That’s what makes it so great.” ~ Sarah Dessen | Tweet this
The unpredictability of love is one of its most attractive features if you look at it the right way. Love is definitely not something that you can predict, or rely on, which some might look at as a negative trait, but it’s what makes it so exciting, and what makes it such an adventure. It would be pretty boring if it was predictable and something you could manipulate and take for granted. But love is constantly changing and rearranging, it’s an organic substance that is always in motion. Learning to embrace this unpredictable nature is part of learning to love better and stronger.
60. Ruby Dee and the Warming Sensation of Love
“When you know my love, my love will warm you.” ~ Ruby Dee | Tweet this
The warming sensation often associated with love is one way to describe the feelings that come along with it. If the absence of love conjures up feelings of icy coldness and bitterness, then the opposite must bring upon feelings of warmth and goodness. The best way to know someone else’s love is to first love them with all of your might. The warming sensation you provide for them will come back to you twofold and you both can bask in the warmth of the other’s love.
61. Alicia Keys Recommends How to Love Her
“Love me like you’ll never see me again.” ~ Alicia Keys | Tweet this
Love with a sense of desperation so that you never feel like you’re taking the other person for granted. It’s easy to get lulled into a sense that they’ll always be there, but life is not guaranteed, and loving someone and showing that love on a daily basis is important if you want to have no regrets later. You’ll look back at the times when you only loved with half a heart as times that you wish you could live over again. By loving someone so intensely, the way you would if you knew you wouldn’t see them again, you are leaving nothing on the table.
62. Dr. King and the Transforming Power of Love
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. | Tweet this
It’s true that there is only one force that can turn an enemy to a friend. Nothing else can do it, and if you’ve noticed that you have an enemy or two in your life it’s most definitely because there’s a lack of love towards them. You can be the bigger of the two and choose to love them in spite of everything that’s taken place. The trick is that you don’t have to worry if they become your friend or not, just sending them feelings of love is enough because all that matter is your emotional set point, which is raised up by getting rid of the hatred and turning it to love.
63. Nicholas Sparks and Smiling Without a Reason
“Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all.” ~ Nicholas Sparks | Tweet this
Walking around with a silly grin on your face because you’re in love is one of the greatest things to do, even though it may be a little embarrassing. It’s okay because you won’t even care who sees you or if they think you’re crazy, you will be off in your own little world and thinking about all of the things that you love about your sweetie. Perhaps that’s why there are so many quotes about love that talk about how it’s irrational or illogical and you must be insane to be in love. It overrides our reasoning mind and makes us feel good even without a reason.
64. Ben Hecht and How Love is Magic
“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” ~ Ben Hecht | Tweet this
The image that this conjures up is what makes this love quote so fun. Love really is a magical force, and there’s nothing else like it in the whole universe. If there’s life on other planets they will surely have a notion what it means to love because it permeates all of creation. This quote shows the power of love can perform great acts that seem like magic, it can transform both men and women into better versions of themselves, and has been known to do so for ages.
65. Helen Hunt Jackson and Forgotten Love
“When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.” ~ Helen Hunt Jackson | Tweet this
If you’re worried about forgetting a love you’ve once had, don’t worry, because this quote says that if you do forget it wasn’t love at its best. If the love is of a high enough quality you won’t forget it, so it’s nothing to worry about. Your only concern should be whether you’re loving enough in any given moment. If you feel that you don’t have enough in your life to love, then go more broad. There’s always something to love, even if you just focus on loving life itself.
66. Lauren Oliver on Being Smart and Loving
“If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.” ~ Lauren Oliver | Tweet this
Here’s a statement that shows that if you’re smart you’ll love. Caring and love are closely related, and if you’re smart and get all of the facts you’ll find it in you to care. If you care, you love automatically because they’re that intermingled. It’s impossible to care and not love or to love and not care. A smart person does both, even though foolishness is often linked to falling in love. If you really think about a situation or a person, you will eventually care, and then love follows automatically.
67. Toni Morrison and Rising In Love
“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.” ~ Toni Morrison | Tweet this
The term “fall in love” is often used, but she is pointing out that there isn’t anything negative about the act, and she’s turning it on its head to say that she became more than she was by the act of loving. It’s funny to think of why the term falling in love came into use, and why it’s still used today. It’s more of a lifting feeling than a dropping feeling, but it’s just a phrase that gets tossed around a lot and everyone seems to know that there isn’t any negative connotation to it.
68. Francis David and Thinking and Loving
“We need not think alike to love alike.” ~ Francis David | Tweet this
The next time you get into an argument with someone you love, remember that it’s not important who wins the battle of the head games. Love is not affected by what we think, it is something we feel, and here’s a reminder that you don’t have to think alike in order to love each other. It’s more interesting to have someone you love that has a different way of thinking on an issue or a topic than you do. It will open your own mind and you’ll open theirs a bit, and you can still love each other with that love going untouched even during a heated exchange of words.
69. Tennyson Says Love Is a Currency
“Love is the only gold.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson | Tweet this
With all of the different currencies and all of the precious metals in the world, it’s interesting to think that the only thing that is of any real value is love. This is why so many rich people seem miserable, and why there is a song that says money can’t buy love. The person who is rich in love is the richest of the rich, no matter what their pocketbook might say. That’s why you can get rich quick because love is something you can conjure up on your own, and give freely to those that are deserving.
70. Seneca and Some Old School Wisdom
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” ~ Seneca | Tweet this
You have to put your spirit into love because the two are similar to each other in nature. Your physical self might have trouble connecting with the feeling of love because it’s a palpable energy, but an energy nonetheless. Once you align your spirit to the frequency of love you’ll find that you can tap into whenever you’d like. The spirit is endless and so is love, which is why the two resonate so well together. If you’ve been feeling like you’re falling flat with love, try injecting more of your true spirit into it.
71. Nikki Giovanni on Love as an Adventure
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” ~ Nikki Giovanni | Tweet this
What a grand adventure love is. It has all the markings of an adventure thanks to the twists and turns and the highs and lows that come with it. There’s so much energy involved, as well as excitement and nervousness that it really goes unrivaled. You might seek out travel and adventure sports and activities, but nothing is the same as what love will do to you. As long as you’re ready for the adventure it will be the time of your life. If you’re not ready you may not want to venture down that road until you are.
72. Jeremy Taylor and Setting Friendship Ablaze
“Love is friendship set on fire.” ~ Jeremy Taylor | Tweet this
When you start with friendship as your base and heat things up with passion you’re on your way to an amazing love story. If you’re not friends with the one you love then you may find that love burns out and there isn’t anything left to the relationship. When you are friends that also love each other with a passion, you’ll making it through those waning times and be able to go the distance. This isn’t to say that you’re burning up or destroying your friendship, but that you are heating things up and making it blaze bright.
73. Edgar Allan Poe Displays Something More Than Love
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe | Tweet this
Sometimes love just isn’t a big enough word for the way you feel about someone. It doesn’t seem to sum up all of the emotions that are going on, or the feelings that you’re having. Here he’s saying that the love they shared transcended what we think of when we think of love, and that it was something bigger, more expansive, and pretty much something that couldn’t be described with the language that we have.
74. Sinclair Lewis Tells What Love Is
“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” ~ Sinclair Lewis | Tweet this
Love is there at all times to guide us. It is not something that goes away for a time but then comes back, it’s always there just like the stars in the sky. You might not always be able to see them, but they’re still there. You can rely on them, and find comfort knowing that they’re there even if you aren’t reminded of it all the time. Learn to trust in love, even when you don’t necessarily feel it. It’s always there and can always guide you home.
75. John Updike and Being the Most Alive You Can Be
“We are most alive when we’re in love.” ~ John Updike | Tweet this
Have you ever noticed that food tastes better, the air smells sweeter, and everything just seems to work out better when you’re in love? That’s because at those times you are at the very peak of what it feels like to be alive. If you’ve fallen into a rut of not living life fully alive it could be that you need an injection of love in your life. You can attract love by trying to live life to the fullest even before love arrives.
(Read this next: 16 Empowering Quotes About Breaking Up and Moving On)
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.
Enjoy!
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
Further Readings
- Topic: Relationships
- 139 Relationship Quotes To Level Up Your Bonding With Others
- 110 Family Quotes To Inspire Closeness With Your Relatives
- 83 Listening Quotes To Help You Be A Better Listener
- 63 Loyalty Quotes For More Faithfulness In Your Life
- 100 Forgiveness Quotes That Will Free Yourself
- 7 Ways To Learn To Love Yourself Unconditionally (huffingtonpost.com)
- 71 Generosity Quotes To Make Your World Better
- 81 Compassion Quotes To Keep Your Heart Open
I hope you enjoyed these beautiful love quotes. If you did, please share them with a friend today!
What is love to you? What was your favorite quote? And remember: words can transform your life, if you find the right ones.
Table Of Contents
Part 1
Top 17 Images
Best Quotes
Part 2
Love Quotes That ARE
Famous
Short
Inspirational
Part 3
Conclusion
Love is real, real is love. John Lennon
Love is a friendship set to music. Joseph Campbell
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
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin
Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce — which is called passion. Clarice Lispector
when you love someone / you are scared of getting hurt / and you will get hurt Brandon Scott Gorrell
And now we’re apart and you’re just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn’t make sense. Gaby Dunn
He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.
Bob Marley
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. Pablo Neruda
What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.
Julio Cortázar
It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone. Marilyn Monroe
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. Rainer Maria Rilke
We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time… detached. Federico Fellini
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot
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
as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. James Joyce
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. Henry Miller
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss
i am afraid / that i am not learning fast enough; i can feel the universe expanding / and it feels like no one has ever tried hard enough; when i cried in your room /
it was the effect of an extremely distinct sensation that ‘i am the only person / alive,’ ‘i have not learned enough,’ and ‘i can feel the universe expanding / and making things be further apart / and it feels like a declarative sentence / whose message is that we must try harder Tao Lin
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
Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really. Harvey Milk
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:4-13
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. Paul McCartney 
Today is Valentine’s Day.
So I would like to share quotes about love from the people who have walked this earth before us (and from a few who are still here).
Timeless and inspiring thoughts written down and spread throughout the decades, centuries and, yes, even millenniums.
Thoughts not only about happy, romantic love but also the love between friends and family.
And about the love that is often neglected or pushed to the side: the love you have for yourself (if you want more on that then check out this post with quotes on self care).
This is 141 of the most touching, thought-provoking, helpful and…
Inspiring Quotes on Love
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
— James Baldwin
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
— Lucille Ball
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
— Lord Byron
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Herman Hesse
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
— Roy Croft
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
— Joseph Campbell
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”
— Seneca
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
— Maya Angelou
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
— George Sand
“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
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
— Lao Tzu
“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
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
— Oscar Wilde
“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
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha
“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
— Dr. Seuss
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran
“’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
— Albert Ellis
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.”
– Harry Palmer
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
— Euripides
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.”
– Andrew Matthews
“We are most alive when we’re in love.”
— John Updike
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
— Pablo Neruda
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
— Ingrid Bergman
“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”
— Diane Von Furstenberg
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’”
— Erich Fromm
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
— Sophocles
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
— Andre Breton
“Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”
— Kristen Neff
“Love is a better teacher than duty.”
— Albert Einstein
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
— Erich Segal
“If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.”
– Barbara De Angelis
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey
“Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one.”
— Unknown
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
– Anaïs Nin
“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
— James Thurber
“The best proof of love is trust.”
— Joyce Brothers
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
— Honore de Balzac
“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”
– Kim McMillen
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
— Josh Billings
“Fortune and love favor the brave.”
— Ovid
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
— Carl Sagan
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.”
— T. Tolis
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
— David Wilkerson
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
— Anaïs Nin
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Where there is love there is life.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.”
— Paul McCartney
“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
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
— Jane Austen
“It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”
— Bertrand Russell
“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
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
— Maya Angelou
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
— Stephen Chbosky
“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.”
— Dr. Seuss
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.”
— Madonna
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
— Blaise Pascal
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
— Jane Austen
“Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
— Andre Gide
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
— Victor Hugo
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness.”
— Beyoncé
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
— Tom Bodett
“You always gain by giving love.”
— Reese Witherspoon
“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”
— Bob Marley
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
— William Shakespeare
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
— Audrey Hepburn
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.”
— Nat King Cole
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“First and foremost, self-love, and then give love away.”
— Katy Perry
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
— Paulo Coelho
“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
“A simple “I love you” means more than money.”
— Frank Sinatra
“Love is the flower; you’ve got to let it grow.”
— John Lennon
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
— William Shakespeare
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
— Jane Austen
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
— Robert Frost
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
— Oscar Wilde
“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
“Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.”
— Dolly Parton
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“All you need is love.”
— The Beatles
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
— Robert Fulghum
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“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
“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
— Pablo Neruda
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
— C.S. Lewis
“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
“If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.”
— Miles Davis
“I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
— Rita Rudner
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.”
— Will Ferrell
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby—awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
— Lemony Snicket
“I love you like a fat kid loves cake.”
— Scott Adams
“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”
— Rodney Dangerfield
“Love is telling someone their hair extensions are showing.”
— Natasha Leggero
“I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?”
— Jean Illsley Clarke
“Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.”
— Phyllis Diller
“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”
— Lynda Barry
“A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.”
— Tim Allen
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
— Joan Crawford
“My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.”
— Garry Shandling
“As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy.”
— Ralphie May
“Spend a few minutes a day really listening to your spouse. No matter how stupid his problems sound to you.”
— Megan Mullally
“A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick. A youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.”
— Mary Wilson
“Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three-meals-a-day and remembering to carry out the trash.”
— Joyce Brothers
“Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.”
— Mae West
“Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women; a little bit of support and a little bit of freedom.”
— Jerry Seinfeld
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
— Charles Schulz
What is your favorite quote on love? Feel free to share the best one(s) you have found in this article or in your own life in the comments section below.
[Note: the original version of this post contained 78 love quotes but it has now been updated with 63 additional quotes on love.]
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Love is one the most powerful forces in the universe.
It brings people together, reveals our greatest strengths and weaknesses, defies all logic and is everywhere yet seemingly rare at the same time.
Those who are lucky enough to experience love know the greatest joy and peace you can find in this world. However, that feeling can sometimes be hard to put into words. Luckily there is no shortage of brilliant quotes on love.
You’re sure to find the perfect love quote to say exactly how you feel or gather some new insight into how love takes form. From romantic love quotes to falling in love quotes we’ve got it all covered.
Whether you’re already in love, still searching or experiencing a heartbreak, these words are sure to inspire and make you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
Enjoy this list of the 100 best love quotes and 50 best I love you quotes.
Best Love Quotes
“You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have”
– F Scott Fitzgerald
Finding true love is like finally finding the right key to unlock your heart.
“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 material things in life don’t matter when you’re in love. Oscar Wilde always knows how to say it best.
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
– Maya Angelou
Don’t worry about the roadblocks in life, true love overcomes all boundaries
“You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars.”
– E.E. Cummings
What a poetic way of saying love is everything, day, night and everything in between.
“Love is friendship set on fire.”
– Jeremy Taylor
Your partner may be your best friend, but that friendship surpasses even the best platonic friendships.
“My love, believe me, waiting for you has always been a form of freedom.”
– Alexander Vasiliu
Waiting for love is hard, but knowing you will eventually be with your person is like awaiting a birthday or celebration.
“When I saw you, I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.”
– William Shakespeare
They say when you fall in love you just know, but it is even better when the other person knows too.
“A soulmate isn’t someone who completes you. No, a soulmate is someone who inspires you to complete yourself.”
– Bianca Sparacino
A soulmate pushes you to be the best version of yourself everyday. You both come out far better than where you started.
“Our lives may not have fit together, but ohhh did our souls know how to dance…”
– K. Towne Jr.
Love doesn’t always make sense on paper, and life can get in the way, but the struggle is always worth the reward in the end.
“Souls tend to go back to who feels like home.”
– N.R. Hart
When you find a person that feels like home never let them go, and no matter how far you go you’ll always be home.
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
– Edgar Allen Poe
Love makes even the most rational beings crazy at times. That’s what makes it so beautiful.
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is like a snowflake: never the same twice but always beautiful in its own way.
“Love is not an emotion, it is your very existence.”
– Rumi
Rumi love quotes always capture the essence of love simply yet brilliantly.
“Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they’re even born.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you believe in soulmates this is the quote for you.
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
– Oscar Wilde
For richer or for poorer. It doesn’t really matter because you always feel rich in love.
“Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.”
– William Shakespeare
Love can have its dark sides too, but the pain is always worth the pleasure.
“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to found in the dark folds of life.”
– (Les Miserables) Victor Hugo
Nothing else matters in this life except love. If you find it you can die knowing you truly lived.
“And if love be madness, may I never find sanity again.”
– John Green
Insanity is a small price to pay for love. No one said it will make sense, but it will be bliss.
“Fall in love with someone who is both your safe place and your biggest adventure.”
– Bianca Sparacino
What more can you ask for in life than a crazy adventure and a place you feel completely safe?
“Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
– Carroll Bryant
Love takes work from the very beginning to the very end, but working in love is never a chore.
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.”
– T. Tolis
Love is nothing unless is shared.
“Where there is love there is life.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Even a short love quote can be powerful.
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
– Plato
With this logic maybe your own love quotes will be better than the words of another.
“You don’t love someone because they are perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
– Jodi Picoult
Love doesn’t make one blind to imperfections. It has the power to see past them.
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.”
– Nat King Cole
Learning how to love is more valuable than all the knowledge in the world.
“We are shaped and fashioned by those we love.”
– Geothe
Whoever you have become is because of those who loved you.
“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
Love is unselfish and nothing matters more than your lover’s happiness.
“A life lived in love will never be dull.”
– Leo Buscaglia
It is impossible to be bored when you are in love.
“All you need is love.”
– Paul McCartney
The best true love quotes are simple yet powerful.
“What we have enjoyed once we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
– Helen Keller
Once you’ve found love you can never truly loose it. It is a part of you forever.
“Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.”
– Tom Wolfe
Nothing makes life worth living quiet like love.
“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Franklin P. Jones
It’s about the journey not the destination, and love makes the journey pretty sweet.
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
– James Baldwin
Love allows you to be your true self, and you are better for it.
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
– Nicholas Sparks
Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t real.
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
– Albert Ellis
Love requires time and patience and above all perseverance.
“I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.”
– Jodi Picoult
Love comes out of nowhere and take over your entire life in the blink of an eye.
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott
A feeling one can only dream of.
“Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
In love there is no giving and taking there is only opportunity.
“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.”
– Sinclair Lewis
Love is morning, night and everything in between.
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”
– Emily Dickinson
Obviously love doesn’t truly make you immortal, but it comes pretty close.
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
– Maya Angelou
Never give up on finding love even if you’ve been burned in the past.
“True love is singing karaoke Under Pressure and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.”
– Mindy Kaling
True love is sacrificing the best things in life with a smile on your face.
“From the moment I saw her I knew this one was worth the broken heart.”
– Atticus
Love is a risk worth taking.
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
How can you truly be your best self if your soul is in hiding?
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
– Albert Einstein
Love can’t be understood from a scientific perspective, it’s purely spiritual.
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
– Barbara De Angelis
Love is like gambling. You can’t win ur you never play the game.
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
– Honore de Balzac
A picture forever imprinted in your mind.
“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”
– Madame de Stael
Time doesn’t start moving quicker or slower when you’re in love, it just no longer matters.
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
We are saying you can’t be happy without love, but it sure is a lot easier to be happy when you’re in love.
“Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you’ve been together, it’s all about how much you love each other every day. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
– Vladimir Nabokov
Love abides by no calendar or clock. It can come and go in an instant or last a lifetime.
“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us.”
– Petrarch
Love brings us all together in harmony.
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. […] It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
– Ann Landers
A love bond will always be stronger than a bond of friendship. It is mor generous and intense.
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”
– Eva Gabor
Only the best games have two winners.
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
– Mother Teresa
Love erases all pain, but it can also be the source.
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
– Dalai Lama
The most powerful and necessary forces in the universe.
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
– Robert Frost
Love is too good to pass up and too to find it is the greatest wish of everyone on earth.
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Countless books, songs, poems, movies and everything in between are about love, but how many that enjoy this entertainment have experienced it themselves?
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
– Oscar Wilde
Without live in your heart there is no way to go on.
“It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”
– Bertrand Russell
Who is that special person that would catch you?
“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
In love sometimes the risky choice is the best choice.
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
– Joseph Campbell
Its easy to float through life when there’s music playing.
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
– Maya Angelou
Love appears when you least expect it just like a cold.
“If you wish to be loved, love.”
– Seneca
Give what you wish to receive and it will come back to you.
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
– Khalil Gibran
A plain tree may be fine, but blossoms and fruit would make it all the more beautiful.
“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love has been around since the beginning of time, so it must be pretty important.
“Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love is the lifeblood of humanity, not scientifically but spiritually.
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
– Sarah Dessen
Love has no timing, yet the timing it’s always perfect.
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find meaning of life by ourselves alone- we find it with another.”
– Thomas Merton
Without love the meaning of life is impossible to find.
“Love me and the world is mine.”
– David Reed
Love makes the work go ‘round. Without it the world is no one’s.
“To get the full value of a joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.”
– Mark Twain
Life’s pleasures are always sweeter when they are shared with the ones you love.
“Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.”
– Khalil Gibran
Even Mother Nature cannot make true love falter. It comes and goes as it pleases.
“Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
– Karl A. Menninger
Love is the best medicine. It cures the mind, body and soul.
“The thing is, you don’t forfeit your whole world to prove your feelings to someone. You bring your worlds together. You get more world, not less.”
– Justin A. Reynolds
Making your world smaller is never a good idea, but with love your work only expands.
“I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that’s exactly like being found.”
— Claire LaZebnik
Losing yourself isn’t always a bad thing when you have someone to find you.
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
– Vladimir Nabokov
It is a miraculous thing to know love at first sight, but it is even more impressive to hold onto it until the end.
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
— Sarah Dessen
Love appears in mysterious ways, and will overtake you before you know what you’ve found.
“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
A name never sounds more poetic than when it comes out of the mouth of the one you love
“Love reminds you that nothing else matters.”
— Amy Bushell
All the small things seem trivial when you have love.
“I crave a love so deep the ocean would be jealous.”
— Pablo Neruda
The beat kinds of love are deeper than the whole ocean and higher than the tallest mountain.
“Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn’t love you.”
– Tennessee Williams
True heartbreak is when you love someone so deeply but do not receive it in return.
Best Quotes to Say I Love You
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
– Lee Christopher
Sometimes love abounds more than we thought humanly possible.
“You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.”
– Nicolas Sparks
True love makes everything make sense and makes you whole.
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
This famous love quote will capture your sentiment in the most poetic way. No wonder it is so famous!
“This is my confession. As dark as I am, I will always find enough light to adore you to pieces, with all of my pieces.”
– Johnny Nguyen
Even in the bad times and the dark places, love overcomes.
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
– Roy Croft
True love pushes you to be the best version of yourself everyday like no other force can.
“I know I am in love with you because my reality is finally better than my dreams.”
– Dr. Seuss
Pinch me, I’m dreaming! Love is what dreams are made of, but true love is better than what one can even dream of.
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
– Herman Hesse
You cannot know what love is until you experience it yourself, and another person must show you the way.
“My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
– William Goldman
This quote perfectly captures that you can’t quantify love because true love is infinite.
“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists, the reality of everything.”
– Virginia Woolf
Does love make you blind or allow you to see the hidden beauty in everything?
“I love thee with a love that shall not die, till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.”
– William Shakespeare
Leave it Shakespeare to find the most poetic way to say ‘I’ll love you forever’.
“All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.”
– Ed Sheeran
Quote for when that one special person totally completes you.
“You may not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant”
– Rupi Kaur
Love comes in many forms, but when you find your one true love you just know.
“In an endless garden of flowers I will always pick you.”
– A.J. Lawless
If you can relate to this quote you know you have found your perfect person and nothing or no one could ever compare.
“I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.”
– Ben Folds
Love is a feeling that can be hard to put into words. No words can truly capture that feeling.
“If you live to be 100 I want to live to be 100 minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
– A.A. Milne
The thought of being apart from your true love is too much to handle.
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
– Pablo Coelho
When you find your person it seems that such a perfect pairing could not be coincidental.
“You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.”
– Jane Austen
That feeling can only be described as magical.
“P.S. I love you.”
– Cecelia Ahern
This cheeky exchange is short, sweet and to the point.
“All of me loves all of you.”
– John Legend
You can’t live someone half way. It’s all or nothing.
“I still haven’t figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do.”
– William Hannan
When you’re in love even imperfections seem perfect.
“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.”
– Valerie Lombardo
To be with a person you care about in any capacity is all one can ask for, but when it’s love it’s so much better.
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.”
– Elaine Davis
Love is timeless. Even before you find it that person has always held a place in your heart.
“Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.”
– Elvis Presley
Love is surrendering your whole self, and being happy for it.
“It’s always better when we’re together.”
– Jack Johnson
Enjoying every moment of life with the one you love is all you can wish for because it will surely be sweeter.
“You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.”
– Taylor Swift
Forget the card, clothes and shoes love is the best possession you’ll ever have.
“My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding.”
– Christina White
There is no way to quantify love or explain its boundaries because it has none.
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Love overtakes everything – your every thought, breathe and heartbeat.
“You’re always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I’m thinking of you.”
– Dierks Bentley
Even when apart, a lover never truly leaves your side.
“If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you.”
– DeAnna Anderson
If you are willing to defy even your most primal instincts, you know it’s love.
“Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.”
– Inconnu
Love is the life blood, the dream weaver and the best reality.
“I love you. I am at rest with you. I have come home.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers
Love brings to purest peace and allows you to feel at home no matter where you go.
“I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.”
– Rae Carson
To love halfway is to not experience love at all.
“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.”
– Henry Wadsworth
It’s a mystery why one’s heart doesn’t explode when it is seemingly overflowing with love for another.
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
– Audrey Hepburn
There is no better clutch than the one you love. Never let go.
“No matter what has happened. No matter what you’ve done. No matter what you will do. I will always love you. I swear it.”
– C.J. Redwine
It is easy to forgive when you’re in love.
“Sometimes I can’t see myself when I’m with you. I can only just see you.”
– Jodi Lynn Anderson
Love makes you blind but in the best possible way where you can only see the other person.
“There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.”
– Leo Christopher
There is beauty in chaos. It is what keeps life exciting.
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.”
– Pablo Neruda
One could spend an eternity trying to figure out love, but it is always a dead end.
“My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.”
– Boris Kodjoe
A bond between souls can never be broken. It’s affects alter your whole being.
“No matter where I went, I always knew my way back to you. You are my compass star.”
– Diana Peterfreund
In love, you can always find your way back to each other, like a sailor following the stars.
“I am catastrophically in love with you.”
– Cassandra Clare
Falling in love is like a catastrophic event, it turns your whole life upside down.
“I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you.”
– Jamie McGuire
When you’re in love you don’t just want to be with the other person you need to.
“I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.”
– Ian McEwan
They say when you know you know, and there is no doubt.
“For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.”
– Andrew McMahon
To have a hand to hold is to have it all.
“You are the sun in my day, the wind in my sky, the waves in my ocean, and the beat in my heart.”
– Anonymous
A lover is everything, the force that brings life to you and your surroundings.
“You’re the best thing I never knew I needed. So now it’s so clear I need you here always.”
– Ne-Yo
You can’t know how much you need to be loved until you have experienced it yourself, and then you can’t imagine living without it.
“I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.”
– Nicholas Sparks
Your path in life may not always make sense, but once you find love you see how everything was leading you towards this person and this moment.
“Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning
Young love is great, but to grow old together is live fully.
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.”
– Scott Fitzgerald
Even the most powerful words in the English language cannot do love justice.
“Don’t you know that I’d lie with you in the groves, under the light of the moon? That I’d defy the laws of gods and men for you?”
– Richelle Mead
We would all do absolutely anything for the ones we love, regardless of the consequences.
Whether you are with someone or on your own, reading quotes about love and relationships can really help you to gain some more wisdom about the topic.
Relationships can come and go, or you may be in a long-term relationship; either way, inspirational quotes about love can help you to view love in a different way, especially if you are trying to attract more love into your life by using the Law of Attraction.
If you are, for example, looking for love, the following quotes could help you reaffirm ideas of being in love. You could write these quotes about love down on your vision board or add them to a quote journal. In this way, align yourself with the vibration of love today with these love quotes!
Alternatively, you could share these quotes about love with your partner to pass on these positive, loving vibrations. These messages of love could help you to express your own love and feelings for your partner.
In addition, if you are not in a romantic relationship and are not looking for one, these quotes can be applied to family love or friendships. Alongside these quotes about love, remember that self-love is also vital alongside relationships you have with other people. Do not neglect yourself in pursuit of a romantic relationship! Apply the same love you can have for others for yourself and vice versa.
Top 100 Quotes About Love
I am going to share with you 100 inspirational quotes about love and relationships from some very wise, influential people. These quotes have been broken down into smaller categories but all are my favorite quotes about love and relate back to the core positivity that love is about!
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Finding Love Quotes
1. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
– Donald Miller
2. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
– Carl Jung
3. “Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
– Rumi
4. “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find it them.”
– Thomas Merton
5. “My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive. I’ll find love again.”
– Paulo Coelho
6. “We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There’s no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy; there’s nothing we can do.”
– Nina George
7. “She always thought she needed someone to love when all she really needed to do was love the world and let love find her in its time and in its way.”
– Kate McGahan
8. “There are two kinds of sparks, the one that goes off with a hitch like a match, but it burns quickly. The other is the kind that needs time, but when the flame strikes… it’s eternal, don’t forget that.”
– Timothy Oliveira
9. “One day, someone will walk into your life and make you see why it never worked out with anyone else.”
– Anonymous
10. “When it’s time for souls to meet, there’s nothing on earth that can prevent them from meeting, no matter where each may be located. When two hearts are meant for each other, no distance is too far, no time is too long, and no other love can break them apart.”
– Jaime Lichauco
Quotes About Friendship And Love
11. “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
– C.S. Lewis
12. “Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what they really are.”
– Jim Morrison
13. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson Gentry
14. “Life isn’t about having a thousand friends, it’s about finding the very few right ones you need.”
– A.R. Asher
15. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
– C.S. Lewis
16. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia
17. “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
– Albert Schweitzer
18. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
19. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
20. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson
Funny Love Quotes
21. “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.”
– Erma Bombeck
22. “Love is sharing your popcorn.”
– Charles Schultz
23. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
– Albert Einstein
24. “Marriage is like vitamins: we supplement each other’s minimum daily requirements.”
– Kathy Mohnke
25. “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Franklin P. Jones
26. “Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
– Carroll Bryant
27. “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.”
– Robert Fulghum
28. “What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.”
– Pearl Bailey
29. “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
– Rita Rudner
30. “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
– Joan Crawford
Relationship Quotes
31. “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
32. “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
– Stephanie Perkins
33. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
– Elizabeth Gilber
34. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
– Criss Jami
35. “True love stories never have endings.”
– Richard Bach
36. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle
37. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
– Morrie Schwartz
38. “Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.”
– Anonymous
39. “Love is a game that two can play and both can win.”
– Eva Gabor
40. “To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.”
– Domenico Cieri Estrada
Inspirational Quotes About Love
41. “Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. Love is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
– Ann Landers
42. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
43. “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”
– Henry Drummond
44. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
– Maya Angelou
45. “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.”
– Joyce Meyer
46. “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.”
– T. Tolis
47. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
– Pablo Picasso
48. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
– Sarah Dessen
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49. “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you.
The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colors seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.
You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible.”
– Bob Marley
50. “Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we’re gone.”
– Cecelia Ahern
I Love You Quotes
51. “Unconditional loves really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.”
– Ram Dass
52. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.”
– Nicholas Sparks
53. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
– Pablo Neruda
54. “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
– Paulo Coehlo
55. “In case you ever foolishly forget, I am never not thinking of you.”
– Virginia Woolf
56. “There is my heart, and then there is you, and I’m not sure there is a difference.”
– A.R. Asher
57. “There are never enough I love you’s.”
– Lenny Bruce
58. “Regardless of what language it is said in, ‘I love you’ stays beautiful, and two hearts beating together make the same sound. It is the language of Love.”
– Christina Engela
59. “I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.”
– Jamie Weise
60. “I love you not because of what you have, but because of who you are.”
– Debasish Mridha
Marriage Love Quotes
61. “If I get married, I want to be very married.”
– Audrey Hepburn
62. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon Mclaughlin
63. “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
64. “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.”
– William Lyon Phelps
65. “The greatest marriages are built on teamwork; mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.”
– Fawn Weaver
66. “There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
– Martin Luther
67. “True love stands by each other’s side on good days and stands closer on bad days.”
– Anonymous
68. “Happiness is only real when shared.”
– Jon Krakauer
69. “I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
– E.M. Forster
70. “Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people; you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.”
- Sylvester Stallone
Deep Quotes About Love
71. “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
– Swedish Proverb
72. “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
– Oscar Wilde
73. “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
74. “Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.”
– Diane Arbus
75. “Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.”
– Doc Childre
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76. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
– Helen Keller
77. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
– Lao Tzu
78. “The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys.”
– Hermann J. Steinherr
79. “True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.”
– Honore de Balzac
80. “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
– Sam Keen
True Love Quotes
81. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
– William Shakespeare
82. “True love will triumph in the end; which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.”
– John Green
83. “Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.”
– Lauren Conrad
84. “True love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… and rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”
– Jodi Picoult
85. “Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.”
– Mandy Hale
86. “True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”
– Alexandre Dumas
87. “Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.”
– Gwendoline Christie
88. “To be deeply loved means a willingness to cut yourself wide open, exposing your vulnerabilities… hopes, hurts, fears and flaws. Hiding behind the highlight reel of who you are, is the real you and that person is just as worthy of love. There is nothing more terrifying or fulfilling than complete love. It’s worth the risk… reach for it.”
– Jaeda DeWalt
89. “We’ve lost a lot of years, but you can’t lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.”
– Martina Boone
90. “Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.”
– Stephen King
Being In Love Quotes
91. “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
– Dr. Seuss
92. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
– Andre Breton
93. “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
94. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
95. “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
96. “Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
97. “Love makes us invincible. Always be in Love. Life is not always about winning, It’s about never surrendering.”
– Mimi Novic
98. “Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart, and soul.”
– Michael R French
99. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.”
– Thomas Merton
100. “Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.”
– Sushmita Sen
Whether it’s a message for a special someone’s Valentine’s card, or you’re looking for a sentiment to add to your proposal idea, or if you need quotes for your anniversary, or adding a special sentiment for a Mother’s Day card, these love quotes can help put how you feel into words. Quotes are ideal for cards, home decor, home goods, gifts, and more. The following “I love you quotes” can help you tell him or her how much they really mean to you, or help you through a difficult broken heart. So, if you’re looking for anything from funny love quotes to inspirational love quotes, we have you covered. Find some of our favorite famous “I love you quotes” below to include in your personalized Valentine’s card.
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- Famous Love Quotes
The following love quotes are perfect for the “him” in your life for any occasion. Whether you recently started dating or you’ve been married for years, he’ll appreciate any of these quotes about love and partnership. Include these quotes on his favorite personalized gifts for him as a reminder of how much you love him. Great gifts for him that say “I love you” include tumblers, photo mugs, cutting boards, and jigsaw puzzles. Find our favorite love quotes for him below:
- “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green
- “Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis
- “I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim
- “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “The real lover is a man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou
- “I’ll be loving you, always with a love that’s true” – Patsy Cline
- “Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.” – Unknown
- “I need you like a heart needs a beat.” – One Republic
- “When I say I love you more, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most.” – Unknown
Love Quotes For Her
Is there a special woman you love in your life? Do you want to remind her how much she means to you? Add these fantastic quotes to any personalized gift for her that she will cherish forever. Whether she’s your wife, girlfriend, or life partner, she’ll always appreciate knowing how loved she is. Gifts for her that she’ll love include photo blankets, personalized jewelry, custom candles, and photo books. These love quotes for her will look perfect in a card or as part of your home goods gift for any special holiday.
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
- ”I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” – Leo Christopher
- “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
- “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” – Brendan Francis
- ”I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” – Pablo Neruda
- ”Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” – Oscar Wilde
- “You make me want to be a better man.” – Melvin Udall
- “Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.” – Unknown
- “Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.” – Elvis Presley
- Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
Sad Love Quotes
Broken hearts create some of the worst pain in life. If you’ve recently had your heart broken, or you know someone else who has, we hope the following quotes can provide some comfort. Especially if you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day during a difficult time, it can be hard to take a step away from all the happy, romantic love that’s happening around you. Use these quotes to know that life is all about ups and downs, even in love.
- “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” – Sarah Dessen
- “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” – Anais Nin
- “He is not a lover who does not love forever.” – Euripides
- “To love is to burn, to be on fire.” – Jane Austen
- “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 the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing.” – Jack Kornfield
- “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis
- “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis
- “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
- “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” – Pablo Neruda
- “Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.” – Ovid
- “Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke
Cute Love Quotes
The following quotes would be perfect additions to Valentine’s Day gifts or your Valentine’s photo book or to send someone special any day of the week. Cute quotes about love are appropriate for your romantic or even your family and friends. Love comes in all forms, and these cute quotes can help you celebrate with everyone!
- “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
- “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” – Pablo Neruda
- “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” – Ben Hecht
- “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” – Noah from The Notebook
- “I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
- “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo
- ”My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.” – André Breton
- ”A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Kurt Vonnegut
- ”Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” – Elinor Glyn
- ”Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
- “Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.” – James Thurber
- “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.” – Sophocles
- “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
- “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – Paulo Coelho
Love Yourself Quotes
We know just how important it is to love yourself. Write daily inspirational messages to yourself to self motivate in your very own personalized notebooks to start your day off on the right foot. That’s why we’ve collected some of our favorite quotes on self appreciation for you below:
- “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide
- “This has been my life; I found it worth living.” – Bertrand Russell
- “We must be our own before we can be another’s.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
- “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
- “Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.” – Tom Freston
- “Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” – Vincent van Gogh
- “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald
- “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.” – Judy Collins
- “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
- “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” – William Shakespeare
- “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.” – Natalie Cole
“I hope you know that every time I tell you to get home safe, stay warm, have a good day, or sleep well what I am really saying is I love you. I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words’ meanings. ” – Open-365 - “The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.” – Dalai Lama
Short Love Quotes
Love is a complicated and wonderful thing, and a lot of the time it’s hard to find the words to describe it. Whether you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day or another holiday, these are short, sweet, simple, and perfect to add to your custom wall art. Let your loved ones know how you feel in a sweet and simple way – we promise it’ll be just as impactful as a longer message!
- “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
- “You call it madness, but I call it love.” – Don Byas
- “We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch
- “A life lived in love will never be dull.” – Leo Buscaglia
- “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
- “All you need is love.” – Paul McCartney
- “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
- “Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” – Saint Ignatius
- “Love is not a volunteer thing.” – Samuel Richardson
- “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
- “Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.” – Tom Wolfe
- “Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
- “The love we give away is the only love we keep.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.” – Houssaye
- “Trust your intuition and be guided by love.” – Charles Eisenstein
- “That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.” – Joan Baez
- “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni
- “My soul and your soul are forever tangled.” – N.R. Hart
Inspirational Love Quotes
If you’re looking for inspiration, whether it’s to gain the courage to tell someone how you feel or to remind you of your love for someone, include these inspirational love quotes to any personalized tabletop picture frame for everyone to admire. We hope the following quotes will do the trick:
- “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
- “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.” – Jeanne Moreau
- “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
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
- “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- ”I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” – Madame de Stael
- “Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.” – George Jean Nathan
- “Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.” – William Arthur Ward
- “Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis
- “We need not think alike to love alike.” – Francis David
- “Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.” – Moliere
- “Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.” – Felix Adler
- “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu
- “When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.” – Dalai Lama
Funny Love Quotes
Sometimes humor goes hand in hand with love. Check out the following quotes if you need a laugh, or if you’re looking to share them with someone special with a sense of humor. Let your funny love quote be seen at all times displayed on a personalized fleece blanket that your loved one will love using.
- “Love is sharing your popcorn.” – Charles Schultz
- “Love is being stupid together.” – Paul Valery
- “If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?” – Lily Tomlin
- “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
- “Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.” – Lisa Hoffman
- “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” – Robert Fulghum
- “Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.” – Dolly Parton
- ”There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Love means having to say you’re sorry every fifteen minutes.” – John Lennon
- “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman
- “Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” – Pearl Bailey
- “Love is like Heaven, but it can hurt like Hell.” – Unknown
- “It is not love that makes a relationship complicated; it’s the people in it who do.” – Unknown
- “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
- “Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.” – Thomas Dewar
“Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.” – George Burns - “I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.” – Elizabeth Evans
Famous Love Quotes
Famous quotes about love have withstood the test of time for good reason. These historical quotes are recognized by many and help summarize the thoughts and feeling that come with love. The following love quotes are as well known as the people who said them, and they’re great to add to greeting cards or other special gifts for your loved ones.
- “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky
- “You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.” – Bob Marley
- “I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim
- “Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” – St. Augustine
- “The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.” – Dalai Lama
- “Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
- “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna
- ”How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “I believe there are some things in life you can’t deny or rationalize, and [love] is one of them.” – Cate Blanchett
- “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost
- “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
- “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” – Carl Sagan
- “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” – Jesus Christ
Additional Resources and Love Quotes
If you loved these quotes and you’re looking for additional love related resources, we’ve got you covered. Make sure to check out our other guide on quotes about love and life, as well as the following resources:
- Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
- Gifts for Him
- Gifts for Her
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“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.”
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“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.”
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William W. Purkey
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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Dr. Seuss
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
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Elbert Hubbard
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
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Andre Gide,
Autumn Leaves
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.”
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Bob Marley
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
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John Green,
The Fault in Our Stars
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
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Elie Wiesel
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
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Pablo Neruda,
100 Love Sonnets
“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life’s key: be check’d for silence,
But never tax’d for speech.”
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William Shakespeare,
All’s Well That Ends Well
“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.”
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Neil Gaiman,
The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
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Lao Tzu
“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends — they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything — they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they’ll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them — actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can’t give up because if you give up, you’ll never find your soulmate. You’ll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”
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Marilyn Monroe
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
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Sarah Dessen,
The Truth About Forever
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
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Robert A. Heinlein,
Stranger in a Strange Land
“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect—you aren’t either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there.”
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Bob Marley
“You love me. Real or not real?»
I tell him, «Real.”
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Suzanne Collins,
Mockingjay
“I’m in love with you,» he said quietly.
«Augustus,» I said.
«I am,» he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. «I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
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John Green,
The Fault in Our Stars
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
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Nicholas Sparks,
The Notebook
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love’s mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil’d.”
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William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
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Nicholas Sparks,
A Walk to Remember
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
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Jane Austen,
Northanger Abbey
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…”
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Elizabeth Gilbert,
Eat, Pray, Love
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
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Jodi Picoult,
My Sister’s Keeper
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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Anais Nin
“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
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Marilyn Monroe
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
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Robert Fulghum,
True Love
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!