Love Quotes
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Love
Timeless insights about relationships, compassion, and human connection
115 Quotes
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life
— Memoirs, section "The Fire That Feeds Our Lives"
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever, only, nothing is eternal
— From the poem 'Advice to My Daughter', published in 'The Black Unicorn' (1978)
You can only see clearly with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye
— The Little Prince (1943), Chapter 21
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love
— 'Oedipus at Colonus', line 1625
Whatever our struggles, whatever the ground of our being, the smallest gesture of tenderness can change us
— The Fire Next Time (book)
The giving of love is an education in itself
— You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life, Chapter 4
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same material
— Wuthering Heights (novel, 1847)
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
— The Summer Day, New and Selected Poems (1992)
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights
— Dracula (novel, 1897)
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world
— A New Earth, Chapter 1
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed
— Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Chapter 8: The Development of Personality
Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person
— The Beast in Me and Other Animals
Love is so short, forgetting is so long
— Poem XX, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)
The hottest love has the coldest end.
— Quoted in Plato's Phaedrus (interpreted through secondary sources)
You are my poem; a poem I do not own, nor write, yet I live inside its lines
— Salt, selected poem
He loved her, perhaps, more dearly than any man loves a woman, but so differently that it might not be recognized as love at all
— To the Lighthouse
To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love
— How to Love, Introduction
They do not love that do not show their love
— Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I, Scene II
Whatever our lives might be, we are always on the verge of a great revelation
— Letters to a Young Poet (Letter Eight)
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
— Often attributed in Buddhist teachings; paraphrased in Dhammapada commentary
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me
— The More Loving One, in Homage to Clio (1960)
I carry your heart with me. I am never without it
— Poem: i carry your heart with me(i carry it in)
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
— From the novel The Notebook
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost
— The Defendant (1901), essay 'The Eclipse of a Sense of Humour'
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love
— Love in the Time of Cholera (novel)
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs
— Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 1
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead
— A Woman of No Importance, Act II
I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam
— The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Mount Doom, Book VI, Chapter 3)
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities
— Quoted in various literature anthologies
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell
— Interview with Roy Newquist, 'Conversations with Joan Crawford', 1962
We can only learn to love by loving
— The Bell (novel, 1958)
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with
— Notebook, 1894
I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone
— The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye
— Life's Little Instruction Book (compiled aphorism)
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return
— Lyrics from the song "Nature Boy"
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
— Part One, Aphorism 153, Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage
— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 67 (interpretation)
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb
— From the poem 'Paracelsus' (1835)
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever
— Attributed (commonly quoted, from 19th-century letters or poetic fragments)
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of
— Pensées, Section IV, 277
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being
— From 'Still Life with Woodpecker' (1980)
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken
— The Four Loves, Book 2, Chapter 6
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
— Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along
— 'The Essential Rumi', translated by Coleman Barks
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new
— The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear
— Collected Poems, 1938
Hearts are wild creatures, that’s why our ribs are cages
— Wild Embers (poetry collection, 2017)
I have for the first time found what I can truly love, I have found you
— Jane Eyre, Chapter 23
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away
— From the novel 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' (1994)
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love
— Speech on the importance of small acts of kindness (various public addresses)
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction
— 'Wind, Sand and Stars' (1939)
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky
— The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, selected translation
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil
— 'Beyond Good and Evil', Aphorism 153 (1886)
The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true
— Six of Crows
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies
— Attributed by Diogenes Laërtius in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book V
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
— Poem: 'Love is the voice under all silences...' (from 'Complete Poems, 1904–1962')
To love is to recognize yourself in another
— A New Earth, Chapter 8
We accept the love we think we deserve
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower (novel), Part 1
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
— Wuthering Heights (Chapter 9)
Now, little by little, it will begin to happen with you, just as it happens to them, that something unfamiliar enters your heart
— In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous
— Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage (book)
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
— Wuthering Heights, Chapter 9
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit
— The Prophet, 'On Love'
If I know what love is, it is because of you
— Novel 'Narcissus and Goldmund' (1930)
Where there is love there is life
— Speech in 1914 at a mass meeting in Durban, South Africa
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better
— Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene I
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides
— Quoted in How to Live with Another Person, Chapter 3
In the arithmetic of hearts, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing
— The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966)
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic
— 'Méditations poétiques' (1820s)
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love
— The Brothers Karamazov, Part 2, Book 5, Chapter 4
When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep
— 'The Prophet' (1923), 'On Love' section
What is to give light must endure burning
— Man's Search for Meaning, Part Two: Logotherapy in a Nutshell
To touch the hand of another is often to touch a world, entire and alive, that has never before been seen
— On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
We loved with a love that was more than love
— Poem 'Annabel Lee' (1849)
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it
— Stray Birds, Verse 26
When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do, and often do, much much better
— Quoted in 'Chanel and Her World' by Edmonde Charles-Roux (1979)
Souls tend to go back to who feels like home
— poem from 'Love, War and Soul'
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
— Wuthering Heights, Chapter 9
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive
— The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1
Love is a shared solitude
— Les Misérables (1862)
There is always something left to love
— One Hundred Years of Solitude (Chapter 12)
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart
— Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know (1991)
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages
— Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part III
Each time I have ever loved, I have learned a new song to sing to the silent stars
— Love Her Wild
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
— Journal, July 25, 1839
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope
— Collected in Maya Angelou's Quotes displayed on her official website
Lovers alone wear sunlight
— Poem: "Being to timelessness as it's to time," (Collected Poems)
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
— A Path with Heart (book, 1993)
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness
— Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 4
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults
— ‘The Wild Palms’ (1939), Chapter 6
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
— 1 Corinthians 13:13, The Bible (New Testament)
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home
— Anna and the French Kiss
The most vital movements are not of the body, but of the soul, and of the soul through the body
— Point Counter Point
We loved with a love that was more than love
— Annabel Lee (poem, stanza 2)
Love is the whole and more than all
— Poem 'if everything happens that can't be done', Complete Poems: 1904–1962
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear
— Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God
— Les Misérables (Book IV, Chapter 2)
Whatever you become, be tender
— The Art of Being (1989)
To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed
— Widely attributed from various poetry collections
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread
— From her Nobel Peace Prize lecture (1979)
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love
— Felix Holt, The Radical, Chapter XLVI
Whatever happens, whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that.
— Letters to a Young Poet, Letter Seven
The art of love is largely the art of persistence
— The Art of Love and The Therapy of Emotion (lecture)
We loved in a love that was more than love—a mystery that neither time nor distance could diminish
— Written in her personal correspondence to Robert Browning, circa 1845
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
— Collected Works, Maxims and Reflections
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart
— Emma, Volume I, Chapter 10
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets
— Kafka on the Shore (2002)
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
— Wuthering Heights, Chapter 9
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence
— The Art of Loving, 1956
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit
— From various interviews and his autobiographical writings
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath
— Poem 917, Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold
— Save Me the Waltz (1932)
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real
— The Sovereignty of Good (essay, 1970)
Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is key to action and freedom
— Interview with Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2012