The exploration of human love through quotes offers a unique window into the complex emotions and profound connections that define our existence. Love, in its many forms, has been the muse of poets, philosophers, and thinkers throughout history, each attempting to capture its elusive essence. Through their words, we are invited on a journey that transcends time and culture, reminding us of love’s universal power to inspire, heal, and transform.
These quotations serve as beacons, illuminating the multifaceted nature of love. They reflect the joy, pain, vulnerability, and strength found in loving and being loved. From the fiery passion of romantic love to the steadfast devotion found in familial bonds and friendships, each quote is a thread in the rich tapestry of human relationships. As we delve into these expressions of love, we find not only the reflection of our own experiences but also the shared heartbeat of humanity itself.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut
I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments… but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness. Sigmund Freud
One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love – to serve the loved one without his knowing it – is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism. Simone Weil
“Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” – Rosemonde Gerard
Truth comes to us mediated by human love. A. N. Wilson
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland
“No matter where I went, I always knew my way back to you. You are my compass star.” – Diana Peterfreund
“My heart is and always will be yours.” – Jane Austen
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm
So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one’s mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don’t have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus’ commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about. Norman Vincent Peale
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. Hugh Walpole
What we now call ‘finance’ is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. Robert Graves
It’s a form of human love to accept our complicated, messy humanity and not run away from it. Martha Nussbaum
Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety. Edgar Allan Poe
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.” – Pablo Neruda
To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible. John Muir
I don’t think I could truly value human love until I developed divine love. Penn Badgley
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. Dalai Lama
“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it has merely shown me that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.” – Doug Fetherling
“I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. 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.“ – Coco J. Ginger
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. Nathaniel Parker Willis
“I like the way you make me feel even when I’m nowhere near.” – Unknown
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth’s unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love. Ouida
The supreme state of human love is…the unity of one soul in two bodies. Sri Aurobindo
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. Francois Mauriac
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Human love and desire is my bag. Andrew Sean Greer
“If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you.” – Deanna Anderson
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life. Hugh Walpole
But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth. Margaret Fuller
I’ve always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors. Marc Chagall
Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ’s sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“I may not be your first date, kiss or love…but I want to be your last everything.” – Unknown
The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises. Saint Francis de Sales
Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose. Manis Friedman
What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself. Sri Chinmoy
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.” – Rabindranath Tagore
Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance. Magnus Hirschfeld
I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass. Jim Harrison
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
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson