Love Quotes

Few aspects of life have been more discussed than love. Many have spoken on the subject with both brevity and wit. The following quotes are taken from a wide array of sources both contemporary and old and range from very serious to highly comic. They demonstrate many ways in which this most common place of emotions is quite extraordinary.

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” Edgar Allan Poe

“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” Shakespeare

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” Shakespeare

“To wait eternity is short if love reward the end.” Emily Dickinson

“The more you judge the less you love.” Honore de Balzac

“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.” Henry Fielding

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” Oscar Wilde

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” Benjamin Franklin

“Love is the flower of life.” D.H. Lawrence

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” Victor Hugo

“Love, love, love,
that is the soul of genius.” Mozart

“I love thee
to the depth and breadth
and height my soul can reach” Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Love is patient, love is kind” I Corinthians 13:4

“To wake up in love
To notice how red the poppy is.” Anna Akhmatova

“What I cannot love I overlook.” Anais Nin

“When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” Elizabeth Bowen

“A simple I love you means more than money.” Frank Sinatra

“Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand.” Mother Teresa

“Paradise is always where love dwells.” Jean Paul F. Richter

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” Lao Tzu

“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” Janos Arany

“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The best portion of a good man’s life,
his little nameless unremembered acts
of kindness and love.” William Wordsworth

“Grow old with me. The best is yet to be.” Robert Browning

“Love is like friendship caught on fire.” Bruce Lee

“One word frees us
From all the weight and pain in life,
That word is love.” Sophocles

“A heart that loves is always young” Greek Proverb

“If I know what love is it is because of you.” Herman Hesse

“We can only learn to love by loving.” Iris Murdoch

“Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.” Edmund Spenser

“Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.” Virgil

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” Thomas Carlyle

“Love’s best habit is a soothing tongue.” Shakespeare

“Years of love have been forgot in the hatred of a moment.” Edgar Allan Poe

“Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.” Terence

“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.” Alice Walker

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” Oscar Wilde

“O, human love! Thou spirit given
On earth, of all we hope in heaven.” Edgar Allan Poe

“It must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before that gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.” Jane Austen

“To be loved, be lovable.” Ovid

“If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I’ll be hanged.” Shakespeare

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” George Sand

“Come live with me and be my love.” Christopher Marlowe

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but looking outward together in the same direction.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.” Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” Kahlil Gibran

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.” Blaise Pascal

“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, only more love.” Mother Teresa

“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.” Song of Songs 8:7

“Hang up philosophy!
Unless philosophy can make a Juliet” Shakespeare

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” Aristotle

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” Henry David Thoreau

“Work and love—these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.” Theodor Reik

“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.” Benjamin Franklin

“Those marriages generally abound with love and constancy that are preceeded by a long courtship.” Joseph Addison

“Like a mild consoling rainbow, or a savage cataract—love has saved me.” Alexander Smith

“The wine of love is music and the feast of love is song.” James Thomson

“Perfect love casts out prudery altogether with fear.” Richard Garnett

“Love: the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” Mark Twain

“Gravitation cannot be responsible for people falling in love.” Albert Einstein

“Speak low if you speak love.” Shakespeare

“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Samuel Butler

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” Plato

“The day breaks not: it is my heart,
Because that you and I must part.” John Donne

“Never close your lips to those you have opened your heart.” Charles Dickens

“To live without loving is not to really live.” Moliere

“Love is a friendship set to music.” E. Joseph Cossman

“To love is the great Amulet that makes this world a garden.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.” James M. Barrie

“Love is something eternal. The aspect may change but not the essence.” Vincent Van Gogh

“The Eskimos have fifty-two words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love.” Margaret Atwood