If you’re looking for inspiration or guidance on love, there’s no shortage of quotes on the topic.
Love is a universal experience that has been written about and discussed in various forms for centuries.
From poets to philosophers, musicians to movie stars, everyone has something to say about love.
In this article, we’ll explore some of the most famous and insightful quotes about love.
Love is a complex emotion that can be difficult to define, but many of the most famous quotes about love attempt to do just that.
Some quotes focus on the intense passion and desire that often accompany love, while others emphasize the importance of trust, respect, and commitment in a healthy relationship.
Whether you’re in the throes of a new romance or looking for guidance on a long-term partnership, there’s sure to be a quote about love that speaks to you.
So, let’s dive in and explore some of the most powerful and memorable quotes about love.
“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
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
―Dr. Seuss
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
―Andre Gide
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
―John Green
“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
“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
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
―Lao Tzu
“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 is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
―Nicholas Sparks
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“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
―Jodi Picoult
“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
“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
“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
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
―Jess C. Scott
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
―Pablo Neruda
“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
―Alfred Lord Tennyson
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
―Chuck Palahniuk
“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
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
―Lisa Kleypas
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“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
―Paulo Coelho
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
―Jane Austen
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
―Oscar Wilde
“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
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
―Robert Frost
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
―Paulo Coelho
“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
―Sarah Dessen
“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
“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
―Nicholas Sparks
“Where there is love there is life.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
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“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
―Plato
“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
―William Shakespeare
“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.”
―Lady Gaga
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever”
―Nicholas Sparks
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
―Edgar Allen Poe
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
―Elizabeth Gilbert
“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”
―Shana Abe
“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
“I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.
“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
―Roy T. Bennett
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“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.”
―Milan Kundera
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
―Stephanie Perkins
“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”
―Sarah Dessen
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
―Pablo Neruda
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
―Ursula K. Le Guin
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”
―Kahlil Gibran
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”
―Nicholas Sparks
“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
―Paul McCartney
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“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
―Joan Crawford
“It is good to 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 well done.”
―Vincent Van Gogh
“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
―Kinky Friedman
“Be careful of love. It’ll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
―Rick Riordan
“I think… if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
―Leo Tolstoy
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
―Ernest Hemingway
“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 A. Baldwin
“When love is not madness it is not love.”
―Pedro Calderon de la Barca
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
―Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
―Charles Dickens
“True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
―Nicholas Sparks
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche
“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
―Lauren Oliver
“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
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
―Bertrand Russell
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
―Agatha Christie
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
―Jimi Hendrix
“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
―Victor Hugo
“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
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