Love is a universal feeling that touches every heart in unique ways. It can bring joy, comfort, and deep connections with others.
This article brings together 150 amazing quotes about love from various thinkers, writers, and artists.
Each quote captures different aspects of love, from its challenges to its triumphs.
These quotes are gathered to inspire, reflect, and celebrate the many forms love can take.
Whether you’re in love, have loved, or are dreaming about love, these words will resonate with you.
They remind us of the importance of love in our lives and how it shapes our experiences and relationships.
Read through these quotes to find comfort, joy, and wisdom. You might find a quote that perfectly expresses your feelings or discover new perspectives on love.
Each quote is a window into the depths of human emotion and thought on what it means to love and be loved.
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Quotes About Love
1. “Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” — Osho
2. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
3. “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones
4. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” — Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
5. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
6. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
7. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
8. “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” — Marilyn Monroe
9. “Love is a better teacher than duty.” — Albert Einstein
10. “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” — Blaise Pascal
11. “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
12. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
13. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” — William Shakespeare
14. “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
15. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Henry David Thoreau
16. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost
17. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” — Oscar Wilde
18. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
19. “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” — Blaise Pascal
20. “Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other.” — Felix Adler
21. “Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
22. “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” — Seneca
23. “Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
24. “Love is the poetry of the senses.” — Honoré de Balzac
25. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë
26. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” — Madonna
27. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” — Andre Breton
28. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” — Peter Ustinov
29. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo
30. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” — Plato
31. “Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.” — Euripides
32. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
33. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
34. “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” — Erich Segal
35. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Herman Hesse
36. “The best proof of love is trust.” — Joyce Brothers
37. “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” — Mother Teresa
38. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
39. “Love is the only gold.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
40. “True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.” — Nicholas Sparks
41. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” — Nicholas Sparks
42. “Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.” — John Lennon
43. “Love is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.” — Rabindranath Tagore
44. “To love at all is to be vulnerable.” — C.S. Lewis
45. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” — Eva Gabor
46. “A life without love is like a year without summer.” — Swedish Proverb
47. “Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” — Vincent Van Gogh
48. “Love is not something you feel. It is something you do.” — David Wilkerson
49. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” — Charles Dickens
50. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” — Nikki Giovanni
51. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” — Zora Neale Hurston
52. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” — Voltaire
53. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
54. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” — Princess Diana
55. “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
56. “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” — Albert Ellis
57. “Do all things with love.” — Og Mandino
58. “Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell
59. “There is no limit to the power of loving.” — John Morton
60. “Love is a journey from the first blush to the last tear.” — Attraction Diary
61. “In true love, you attain freedom.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
62. “Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.” — Tom Wolfe
63. “Love is the bridge between two hearts.” — Attraction Diary
64. “True love stories never have endings.” — Richard Bach
65. “Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is key to love.” — Beyoncé
66. “Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.” — Robert Fulghum
67. “A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.” — George Herbert
68. “Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.” — Zane Grey
69. “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
70. “Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.” — Barbara De Angelis
71. “Love is not blind—it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” — Rabbi Julius Gordon
72. “Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.” — Audre Lorde
73. “Only love can heal the wounds of the past.” — Attraction Diary
74. “The echo of your laughter is the second song of my heart.” — Attraction Diary
75. “Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.” — William Shakespeare
76. “Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.” — Fulton J. Sheen
77. “Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” — Barbara De Angelis
78. “Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” — Karl Menninger
79. “Love is the absence of judgment.” — Dalai Lama XIV
80. “When love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.” — William Shakespeare
81. “To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.” — Pablo Neruda
82. “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.” — Attraction Diary
83. “The heart is forever inexperienced.” — Henry David Thoreau
84. “Love is when you give someone a piece of your soul you never knew was missing.” — Torquato Tasso
85. “A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.” — Frank Sinatra
86. “With love, you can live even without happiness.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
87. “Love is a force more formidable than any other.” — Barbara de Angelis
88. “Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
89. “Love is a wild force that cannot be contained or defined, but felt and cherished.” — Attraction Diary
90. “In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.” — Madame de Stael
91. “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” — Ben Hecht
92. “Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.” — Dolly Parton
93. “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” — T. Tolis
94. “In love, one and one are one.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
95. “The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.” — Maureen Duffy
96. “Love is not a because, it’s a no matter what.” — Jodi Picoult
97. “When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” — Leo Tolstoy
98. “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.” — E.E. Cummings
99. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” — Julia Roberts
100. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” — Eden Ahbez
