Love, an emotion as old as humanity itself, weaves through the fabric of every culture and epoch, often finding its expression in the written word. Through centuries, philosophers, poets, and thinkers have tried to capture its essence, distilling complex feelings into phrases that resonate across time and space. These attempts, varying in form and style, share a common goal: to articulate the ineffable, to give shape to the shapeless, and to provide solace, inspiration, or reflection to those who encounter them.
The following compilation of love quotes serves as a testament to the enduring fascination with love’s myriad forms and faces. Whether in the throes of a passionate affair, the deep bond of familial love, or the gentle affection between friends, these quotes invite readers to reflect on the universal experience of love. They remind us of love’s power to uplift and to wound, to transform and to transcend, offering insights that are at once deeply personal and profoundly universal.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. Brendan Behan
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. Judy Garland
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa
The art of love is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis
Love is space and time measured by the heart. Marcel Proust
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Marcus Tullius Cicero
We loved with a love that was more than love. Edgar Allan Poe
The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard
The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. Arthur Rimbaud
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. Thomas a Kempis
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. Theodor W. Adorno
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
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. Gilbert Parker
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Robert Louis Stevenson
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 yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball
Love is a friendship set to music. Joseph Campbell
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. Blaise Pascal
Be of love a little more careful than of anything. e. e. cummings
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli
We can’t command our love, but we can our actions. Arthur Conan Doyle
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. Louise L. Hay
Love is metaphysical gravity. R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love. Leo Buscaglia
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
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott
Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy. Dwight L. Moody
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. Ben Hecht
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. Will Durant
There are never enough I Love You’s. Lenny Bruce
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. Petrarch
We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. Torquato Tasso
Our first and last love is self-love. Christian Nestell Bovee
Loved. You can’t use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. Ken Kesey
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. Ray Stannard Baker
Choose your love, Love your choice. Thomas S. Monson
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder. Charles Morgan
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion. Javan
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. Buddha
Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Pablo Picasso
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. Jean de la Bruyere
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity – love. And the story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never. Charles Caleb Colton
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Bronte
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. Paulo Coelho
Fortune and love favor the brave. Ovid
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. George Herbert
Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Karl A. Menninger
Love has no age, no limit; and no death. John Galsworthy
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Marc Chagall
Love is blind. Geoffrey Chaucer
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. John Dryden
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. Andre Breton
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Euripides
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. Vincent Van Gogh
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
With our love, we could save the world. George Harrison
People protect what they love. Jacques Yves Cousteau
We love because it’s the only true adventure. Nikki Giovanni
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Alexander Smith
Don’t forget to love yourself. Soren Kierkegaard
Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love. Samuel Beckett
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. Albert Einstein
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you. Loretta Young
If you wished to be loved, love. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries. Truman Capote
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. Theophile Gautier
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. James M. Barrie
The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt
What force is more potent than love? Igor Stravinsky
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy. Kristin Chenoweth
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. Aphra Behn
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. Saint Teresa of Avila
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. Thomas Fuller
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on. Billie Holiday
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. Max Muller
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. Samuel Johnson
