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Love is one of the most intense and emotional experiences that human beings have. These love quotes show how fulfilling it is to love and be loved.
Love is one of the more difficult and rewarding learning experiences, next to parenthood, that most people will go through.
As opposed to just dealing with yourself, you have to deal with the emotions, triumphs and failures of someone else.
Is there a formula for capturing love, or is it merely a role of the dice?
Do we each have one true soulmate, or are we drawn to those we love through circ*mstance and chance? Check out these great love quotes to find out.
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The Best Love Quotes
Love conquers all.
Virgil
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H.L. Mencken
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Maya Angelou
There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.
George Sand
Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.
Nicholas Sparks
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
We are most alive when we’re in love.
John Updike
Love is friendship that has caught fire.
Ann Landers
Love is an endless act of forgiveness.
Beyonce
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Herman Hesse
Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
Bob Marley
Short Love Quotes
We love the things we love for what they are.
Robert Frost
Never set limits when you are loving someone.
Debasish Mridha
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.
Rumi
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
You always gain by giving love.
Reese Witherspoon
The smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Fuller
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
Jim Thurber
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
Ovid
You call it madness, but I call it love.
Don Byas
Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.
Theodore Roethke
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
Tom Wolfe
Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
Houssaye
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
Love is not a volunteer thing.
Samuel Richardson
Love is shown more in deeds than in words.
Saint Ignatius
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
Barbara De Angelis
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor
Choose your love, Love your choice.
Thomas S. Monson
Love brings to life whatever is dead around us.
Franz Rosenzweig
Quotes about Love
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C.S. Lewis
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
Bertrand Russell
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
Jennifer Aniston
Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
Ali McGraw, Love Story
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
Madonna
Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent Van Gogh
Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.
Eminem
Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon
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
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron
The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.
Woody Allen
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you
Sarah Dessen
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
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Felix Alder
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.
Lao Tzu
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Melissa Brown
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
Henry Miller
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
Pablo Neruda
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
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 a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
Arrigo Boito
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 is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton
Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.
James Thurber
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 a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
Moliere
Love is patient andkind; lovedoes not envy or boast; itis not arrogant5or rude. Itdoes not insist on its own way; itis not irritable or resentful;6itdoes not rejoice at wrongdoing, butrejoices with the truth.7Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7, ESV
Love Quotes for Her
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.
Leo Christopher
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Oscar Wilde
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
You make me want to be a better man.
Jack Nicholson, As Good as it Gets
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
Jean de la Bruyere
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard
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
Love Quotes for Him
Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.
Julia Roberts, Notting Hill
I believed that no man in this world deserves me until I met you.
Luffina Lourduraj
For you see, each day I love you more, Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow
Rosemonde Gerard
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
Natalie Cole
Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth.
Eleanor Di Guillo
Self Love Quotes
If you don’t love yourself, you cannot love others.
Dalai Lama
Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
Lucille Ball
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
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
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better.
Kristin Chenoweth
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Pierre Corneille
Love and Romance
It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together… and I knew it.
Tom Hanks, Sleepless In Seattle
Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.
Milan Kundera
In love, all kinds of love, we wait. If I can’t be your dawn, I will be your sunset!
Rossana Condoleo
They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire and you can’t stop running simply because you keep on burning everything that you touch! I say that’s a good love; one that burns and flies, and you run with it!
C. Joybell C.
See there’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.
Gretchen Kemp
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Rabindranath Tagore
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 Lima
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
Ray Croft
Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.
Elaine Davis
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E.E. Cummings
To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.
T. Tolis
True Love Quotes
True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
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
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
Leo Tolstoy
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
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
Torquato Tasso
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
Gilbert Parker
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
Bryant H. McGill
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo
When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
Ella Maillart
Love understands love; it needs no talk.
Francis Havergal
There is my heart, and then there is you, and I’m not sure there is a difference.
A.R. Asher
Love Sayings
“I love you” begins by I, but it ends up by you.
Charles de Leusse
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
Sinclair Lewis
A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.
Frank Sinatra
I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can’t really be felt, truly, by one.
Sean Penn
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Neitzsche
Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.
Eve
And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.
Paul McCartney
Love never dies a natural death. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.
Anais Nin
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love.
Bob Dylan
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
Just because you loved a fake person does not mean your love was not real.
Steph Feels
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
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
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
André Breton
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
The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are.
Oprah Winfrey
Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
Henry Drummond
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
Carlos Santana
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Neitzsche
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
Sophocles
Humorous Love Sayings
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Thomas Dewar
Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.
Lisa Hoffman
Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.
George Burns
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.
Elizabeth Evans
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Lord Byron
Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.
Dolly Parton
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H.L. Mencken
A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.
Tim Allen
Life is messy. Love is messier.
Catch and Release
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya Angelou
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
George Jean Nathan
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt!
Lucy Van Pelt
We hope these love quotes and sayings have you ready to love more, love yourself, and be loved today.
Love is an uncertain part of life, but one of the most rewarding things we’ll ever pursue. Whether it’s love from your family, friends, or romance, we hope you feel ready to give more and receive more love because you deserve it.
