400 Timeless Love Quotes to Inspire Romance

Love Quotes That Capture the Essence of Romance and Passion

Love is the universal language that transcends time, culture, and boundaries. It has inspired poets, philosophers, and dreamers for centuries, shaping literature, music, and art. Whether it’s the passion of first love, the warmth of lifelong companionship, or the bittersweet pain of love lost, every emotion finds its voice in words.

In this article, you’ll discover 400 of the most profound love quotes from history’s greatest minds—writers, thinkers, and visionaries who have beautifully captured the essence of love. Whether you seek inspiration, comfort, or the perfect words to express your feelings, these quotes will resonate with your heart.

Let’s dive into the timeless wisdom of love, one quote at a time.

❤️ Classic Love Quotes

Timeless Words of Love

1) All you need is love. - John Lennon

2) A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, alwayswith the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin

3) I have spread m y dream s under your feet; Tread sof tly because youtread on my dream s . - William Butler Yeats

4) Our love is here to stay. - Ira Gershwin

5) To know me is to love me - Unknown 

6) You com p lete me - Jerry Maguire 
7) Love thy neighbour as thyself. - Matthew 

8) Absence makes the heart grow fonder - Unknown 

9) You had me at Hello - Jerry Maguire 

10) To the world you m a y be one person, but to one person you may bethe world. - Unknown 

11) What lies behind us, and what l i es before us are tiny mattersco mp ared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

12) Love those who love you. - Voltaire 

13) Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn . - Rhett Butler 

14) Love is a verb - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

15) There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. - GeorgeSands 

16) Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boast ful; it is notarrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable orresentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bearsall things, believes all things, hopes a ll things - Paul (A.D. First Century) 1Corinthians 

17) When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world willknow peace. - Jimi Hendrix 

18) The course of true love never did run sm ooth. - Shakespeare 

19) Love means never having to say you're sorry. - Erich Segal 

20) It is only with the heart that o n e can see rightly; what is essential isinvisible to the eye. - Antione de Saint-Exupery

21) The best and mo st beautiful thi ngs in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They m u st be felt wi th the heart. - Helen Keller

22) If you judge people, you have no tim e to love them. - Mother Teresa

23) Love is the trium ph of imagina tion over intelligence. - H.L. Mencken

24) Being deeply loved by som eone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage - Lao-Tzu

25) The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich

26) If you love someone, set them free. - Sting

27) The worst way to mi ss som eone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them . - Unknown

28) Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor

29) To love and be loved is to f eel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott

30) Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature lov 'I need you because I love you. ' - Erich Fromm

31) The way to love anything is t o rea lize that it mi ght be lost. - Gil Chesterton

32) Where there is love there is life. - Mahatma Gandhi

33) We can do no great things. Only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa

 Love and Devotion

34) Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson

35) Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking cre profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao-Tzu

36) Love knows no bounds. - Unknown

37) I am my beloved's and my beloved is mi ne. - The Shulam ite

38) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of lif e; that word is love.- Sophocles

39) Grow old along with me , the best is yet to be. - Robert Browning

40) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde

41) Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up - Jam es Baldwin

42) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charlie Brown

43) To fear lo ve is to fear life, and those who fear life are alr eady th ree parts dead - Bertrand Russell

44) When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start com i ng out. -Elizabeth Bowen

45) The best proof of love is trust. - Joyce Brothers

46) The loving are the daring. - Bayard Taylor

47) The best proof of love is trust. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

48) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imp erfect pers on perfectly. - Sam Keen

49) For it was not int o my ear you whispe red, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland

50) Love doesn' t make the world go 'r ound. Love is what m akes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones

51) Love is everything it's cracked up to be ... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. - Erica Jong

52) Love is life. And if you mi ss love, you m i ss life. - Leo Buscaglia 

53) To love is to receive a gl i mpse of heaven. - Karen Sunde 

54) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein 

55) .....if I have a faith that can m o ve mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. - (from the Bible) 1Cor.13:2 

56) Love is the immo rtal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. - Smiley Blanton 

57) What the world really needs is m o re love a nd less paper work. - Pearl Bailey 

58) Love is letting go of fear. - Gerald Jam polsky 

59) There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Thoreau 

60) People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetim e - Unknown 

61) Take away love and our earth is a tom b . - Robert Browning 

62) Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear - Unknown 

63) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. - Rose Franken 

64) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle - Gloria Steinhem 

65) Bitterness imprisons life; love re leases it. Bitterne ss paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. - Harry Emerson Fosdick 

66) I think th is is the beginning of a beautiful friendshi p - Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca 

 💌 Romantic Love Quotes

Expressing Deep Feelings

67) Life is the flower for which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo 

68) Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the mi ddle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will. - Hope Floats 

69) I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. - Elizabeth Browning 

70) I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it . - From the Movie, City of Angels 

71) Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau 

72) We loved with a love that was mo re than love. - Edgar Allan Poe 

73) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier 

74) Let him kiss me with the kisses of his m outh: for thy love is better than wine. - Song of Soloman 

75) A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words becom e superfluous. - Ingri d Bergman 

76) At the touch of love everyone becom es a poet. - Plato 

77) Love: a tem porary insanity, curable by marriage... - Ambrose Bierce 

78) Love cures people - both the on es who give it and the ones who receive it - Dr. Karl Menninger 

79) Love like there is no tomo rrow. - Unknown 

80) You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen 

81) Who, being loved, is poor? - Oscar Wilde 

82) The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return. - From Unforgettable with Love by Natalie Cole 

83) Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit im pediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds ... - William Shakespeare 

84) If you love somebody, let them go, for if th ey return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. - Unknown 

85) Love is an act of endless forg iveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov 

86) For every beauty there is an eye so mewhere to see it . For every truth there is an ear so mewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. - Ivan Panin 

87) Nothing is worth m o re than this day. - Johann Wo lfgang Van Goethe 

88) Love is an ideal thing, m arriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunis hed. - Goethe 

89) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illum i nes it. - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

90) Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendshi p - never. - Charles Caleb Colt on 

91) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. L ove, love, love, that is the soul of genius. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

92) Once in a while, right in the mi ddle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. - Gieselle C. Viera 

93) Love takes off masks that we fe ar we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. - James Baldwin 

94) you m ake me want to be a better man - As Good As it Gets 

95) Love is the only rational act. - Morrie Schwarz 

96) The heart that loves is always young. - Greek Proverb 

97) Nothing real can be threatened , nothing unreal exsists.Love is all there is. - The Course of Miracles 

98) Happy wife, happy life. - Jeff Allen 

99) When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. - From the Movie, When Harry Met Sally 

100) Men always want to be a woman' s first love. Women like to be a man' s last rom anc e. - Oscar Wilde 

101) I was nauseous and tingly all over . I was either in love or I had smallpox. - Woody Allen 

102) For one human being to love another that is perhaps the m o st difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation. - Rainer M aria Rilke

103) We can only learn to love by loving. - Iri s Murdoch

 Quotes on Passionate Love

104) Som etimes the heart sees what is invisible to the ey e. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

105) All, ev erything that I understand, I understand only because I love. - Leo Tolstoy 

106) Love is my religion - John Keats 

107) Real love stories never have endings. - Richard Bach

108) To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. - Thomas Campbell

109) Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit. - Khalil Gibran

110) Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. - John Keats

111) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very im portant. - Lisa Hoffman

112) Ever has it been that love know s not its own depth until the hour of separation. - Kahlil Gibran

113) Joy is not in things; it is in us. - Richard Wagner 

114) Love is not selfish - 1 Cor 13:56 

115) Love is the flower of life, a nd blossom s unexpectedly and without law, and m u st be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for t h e brief hour of its duration. - D.H.Lawren ce 

116) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on ju st what it is. - Di ane Ackerman 

117) Absence dimi nishes small loves a nd increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. - Fran?ois de La Rouchefoucauld 

118) Love isn' t blind; it just only sees what matters. - William Curry 

119) The mo st im portant thing a father can do for his chil dren is to love their m o ther. - Theodore M. Hesburgh 

120) Seduce my mi nd and you can have my body, find m y soul and I'm yours forever. - Anonymous 

121) More than kisses, letters mi ngle souls. - John Donne 

122) It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. - William Carlos Williams 

123) Love is like playing the piano. First you m u st learn to play by the rules, then you m u st forget the rule s and play from your heart. Unknown 

124) The hottest love has the coldest end. - Socrates 

125) Give all to love. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

126) ...Love like you'll never be hurt... - William Purkey 

127) Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. - Japanese Proverb 

128) Lots of people want to ride with you in the lim o , but what you want is someone who will take the bu s with you when the lim o breaks down. - Oprah Winfrey 

129) Spread love everywhere you go: fi rst of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever com e to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's k i ndness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. - Mother Theresa 

130) In dream s and in love there ar e no impossibilities. - Janos Arany 

131) Can mi les truly sepa rate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren' t you already there? - Richard Bach 

132) What's meant to be will alwa ys find a way - Trisha Yearwood 

 💖 Love and Life Quotes

Wisdom on Love and Relationships

133) Honor the ocean of love. - George de Benneville 

134) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. - Marcus Aurelius 

135) Life without love is like a tree without blossom s or fruit. - Kahlil Gibran 

136) Love and com p assion are necess ities, not luxuries. Without them hum anity cannot survive. - - Dalai Lama 

137) Did my heart love' til now? Foresw ear its sight--for I never saw true beauty 'til this night. - William Shakespeare 

138) Love means to love that which is unlova ble; or it is no virtue at all. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 

139) I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell m y self that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather rememb er it as it was at its best than m end it and see the broken places as l ong as I lived - Mar g aret Mitchell 

140) To laugh often and love mu ch... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... thi s is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

141) Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable. - From the Movie, The Wizard of Oz 

142) Life has taught us t hat love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in th e same direction. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 

143) Life is the first gi ft, love is the second. - Marge Piercy 

144) Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looki ng together in the same direction. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 

145) How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can r each. - Elizabet h Barrett Browning 

146) To love deeply in one direction make s us m o re loving in all others. - Anne-Sophie Swetchine 

147) And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. - Kahlil Gibran 

148) If it is your time, love will tr ack you down like a cruise m i ssile. - Lynda Barry 

149) Love is, above all, the gi ft of oneself. - Jean Anoui lh 

150) I saw and loved. - Edward Gibbon 

151) The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. - Pearl Bailey 

152) Love is more than a feeling; it's a state of mi nd. - Lisa Grude 

153) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only mo re love. - Mother Theresa 

154) Thou art to me a delicious torment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

155) Love is a force mo re form idable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a mo ment, and offer you m o re than a ny material possession ever could. - Barbara De Angelis,Ph.D. 

156) We love because it's the only tr ue adventure. - Nikki Giovanni 

157) If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjami n Franklin 

158) Love is a fruit in season at all times. - Mother Theresa 

159) If I know what love is, it is because of you. - Herman Hesse 

160) Love doesn' t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remad e all the ti me, made new. - Ursula K. Le Gui n 

161) Who so loves believes the impossible. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

162) Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be; It was a fantasy a dream come true; It was the day I met you! - Mandy Forkner 

163) To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. - William M. Thackeray 

164) I would rather live and love where death is king tha n have eternal life where love is not. - Robert G. Ingersoll 

165) Love is not enough. It m u st be the foundat i on, the cornerstone- but not the co mplete structure. It is m u ch too pliable, too yielding. - Bette Davis 

166) The heart of a fool is in his m o ut h, but the m outh of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjam in Franklin 

167) Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. - Denis Diderot 

168) Love is something eternal. - Vincent Van Gogh 

169) Love is the great m i racle cure. Loving ourselve s works mi racles in our lives. - Louise Hay 

170) There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. - Mother Theresa 

171) I love thee with the breath, Smil es, tears of all m y life. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

172) Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love show s a person who he should be. - Anton Chekhov 

173) In the arithmetic of love, one pl us one equals everything, and two mi nus one equals nothing. - Mignon McLaughlin 

174) Love is not blind - It sees mo re and not less, but because it sees m o re it is willing to see less. - Will Moss 

The Power of Love 

175) Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and em broidered by imagination. - Voltaire 

176) To be able to say how m u ch l ove, is love but little. - Petrarch 

177) Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the m o st fatal to true happiness. - Bertrand Russell 

178) Love is but the discovery of oursel ves in others, and the delight in the recognition. - Alexander Smith 

179) Love is that condition in whic h the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - by Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land 

180) A Friend' s Love says: If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says: You'll never need anythi ng; I' ll be there. - Jimi Ho llem ans 

181) To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Sam u el Butler 

182) True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. - Anonymous 

183) The only abnorm ality is the in capacity to love. - Anais Nin 

184) There are no monuments dedicated to me and m y name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my h eart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. - Nicholas Sparks 

185) Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. - Otomo No Yakam o chi 

186) Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. - Woody Allen 

187) The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a huma n being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mi nd shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of hi s own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. - Pearl Buck 

188) Love is a hole in the heart. - Ben Hecht 

189) Fortune and love favor the brave. - Ovid 

190) Be of love (a little) mo re careful than of anything. - EE Cumm ings 

191) Love is a m o ment that lasts forever... - Julie Wittey 

192) In real love you want the othe r person' s good. In romantic love you want the other person. - Margaret Anderson 

193) In our life there is a single co lor, as on an artist' s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. - M arc Chagal 

194) Could a greater mi racle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? - Henry David Thoreau 

195) Love rem i nds you that nothing else matters. - Am y Bushell  

196) Love is the greatest refresh ment in life. - Picasso 

197) Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love m e ? - Cinderella 

198) Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, Often hot and fierce, But still only light and flickering. As love grows older, Our hearts m ature And our love becomes as coals, Deep-burning a nd unquenchable. - Bruce Lee 

💞 Inspirational Love Quotes

Quotes That Speak to the Soul 

199) We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbi ns 

200) Com e live in m y heart and pay no rent. - Samu el Lover ￩ Quotes About Love 

201) Love is a great beautifie r. - Louisa May Alcott 

202) Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. - M. Scott Peck 

203) I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. - Henry Ward Beecher 

204) It' s hard to tell your m i nd to stop lovi ng someone, when your heart still does. - Mallory Jones 

205) Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Mark Twain 

206) All mankind love a lover. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

207) For love is heaven, and heaven is love. - Sir Walter Scott 

208) The heart has reasons that r eason does not understand. - Jacques Benigne Bossuel 

209) Union gives strength. - Aesop 

210) The mo st precious possession th at ev er comes to a man in this world is a wo man's heart. - Josiah G. Holland 

211) To be in love is merely to be In a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mi stake an ordinary young man for a Greek god Or an ordinary young woman for a goddess. - H.L.Mencken 

212) To love is to place ou r happine ss in the happiness of another. - Gottfried Wilhem Von Leibniz 

213) It is not how mu ch we do, but how mu ch love we put in the doing. It is not how mu ch we give, but how mu ch love we put in the giving. - Mother Teresa 

214) Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. - Virgil 

215) Love is friendship set to mu sic - E. Joseph Crossmann 

216) The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence. - Dr. Albert Ellis 

217) It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. - Sam u el Butler 

218) There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or sim u late it where it does not. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

219) One word frees us of all the wei ght and pain in life. That word is Love. - Sophocles 

220) I love you - those three words have my life in them. - Alexandrea to Nicholas III 

221) Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. - Erich Fromm 

222) Love: Two mi nds without a single thought. - Philip Barry 

223) The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo  

224) Kiss m e . Kiss m e as if it were the last time. - From the Movie, Casablanca 

225) Each day I love you mo re, Today m o re than ye sterday and less than tom o rrow. - Rosem o nde G?rard 

226) My bount y is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the mo re I give to thee the mo re I have fo r both are infinite. - S h akespear 

227) Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes 

228) Love is like a mu stard seed;p lanted by God and watered by men -Muda Saint Michael 

229) Love is the only sane and satisfact ory answer to the problem of hum an existence. - Erich Fromm 

230) Love is never lost. If not recipro cated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. - Washington Irving 

231) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell. - Joan Crawford 

232) You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for revceiving; i t 's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return ~ - Alanis Morrissette 

233) Love is a gam e that two can play and both win. - Eva Gabor 

234) All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon t h e sand. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

235) Live Sim p ly, Laugh Often, Love Deeply - - unknown 

Love as a Journey 

236) It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is bett er than not to be able to love at all. - William Thackeray 

237) There is no instinct li ke th at of the heart. - Lord Byron 

238) Soul m e ets soul on l over' s lips. - Percy Bysshe Shelley 

239) Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the m o st terrible. - Mother Teresa 

240) There is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not im portant-what is importan t is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only gl impse we are perm itted of etern ity. - Helen Hayes 

241) For Love is Imm o rtality. - Em ily Dickinson 

242) I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its com i ng with all my heart. - Alice Walker 

243) One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come hom e at night. - Margaret Mead 

244) Rememb er tonight, for it is the beginning of always. - Dante 

245) The mi nute I heard m y first love story I started looking for you, Not knowing how blind th at was. Lovers donÆt finally meet som e where, TheyÆre in each other all along. - Rum 

246) Where there is great love, there are always wishes. - Willa Cather 

247) Love grows by givi ng. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. - Elbert Hubbard 

248) It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the sam e way after us. - J ohann Wolfgang Van Goethe 

249) Embrace me, m y sweet embr aceable you! - Ira Gershwin 

250) Som e love lasts a lifetime. Tr ue love lasts forever. - Unknown 

251) Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart. - Charles Dickens 

252) True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 

253) I have said nothing because there is nothi ng I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it. - Kyle Schmidt 

254) Came but for friendship, and took away love. - Thomas Moore 

255) We don't have to take our clothe s off to have a good time - Jermaine Stewart 

256) We'v e got this gift of love, but l ove is like a precious plant. You can' t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it' s going to get on by itself. You' ve got to keep watering it. You' ve got to really look after it and nurture it. - John Lennon 

257) You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world. - David Levesque 

258) Love is the only gold. - Alfred Lord Tennyson 

259) Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs, and what is done in love is done well. - Vincent Van Gogh 

260) There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. - Fed erico Fellini 

261) From every hum an being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are d estined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single bright er light goes forth from that united being. - Ba'al Shem Tov 

262) what is essential is invisible to th e eyes-- - antoine de saint exupery from the book little prince 

263) Love is a many splendered thi ng. - Nat King Cole 

264) Love is an attem p t to change a piece of a dream world into reality. - Theodor Reik 

💑 Love and Friendship Quotes 

The Bond Between Love and Friendship

265) A simp le I love you means m o re than mo ney.... - Frank Sinatra 

266) This is the true me asure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us. - Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe 

267) Flowing blood is proof that you' r e alive, if it' s for the sake of those you love - Makaino Kouji ֆ 

268) You will find as you look back upon your life that the m o ments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. - Henry Drummond 

269) When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. - Mark Twain 

270) My mo st brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. - Winston Churchill 

271) Treasure th e love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. - Og Mandino 

272) Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. - Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D. 

273) Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. - Rainer Maria Rilke 

274) Love is like war, easy to begi n but hard to end. - Anonym ous 

275) There is a law that man should love his neighbor as hims elf. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upri ght gait; but if he does no t learn it, he m u st perish. - Alfred Adler 

276) Rom ance has been elegantly defined as the offspri ng of fiction and love. - Benjami n Disraeli 

277) Love is smiling on the inside and out. - Jennifer Wilson 

278) Love: The irresistable desire to be irresisti b ly desired. - Mark Twain 

279) My heart is ever at your service. - Shakespeare 

280) Love never claims , it ever gives. - Mohandas K. Gandhi 

281) Your words are my food, your br eath m y wine. You are everything to me. - Sarah Bernhardt 

282) Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be et ernity, eternity can be the tick of a clock. - Mary Parrish 

283) The greatest weakness of mo st hum an s is their hesitancy to tell others how m u ch they love them while th ey'r e still alive. - Orlando Battista 

284) Love is the flower you've got to let grow. - John Lennon 

285) Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. - Thornt on Wilder 

286) If you aren' t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you gi ve another person that you aren't even giving to yourself. - Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D. 

 Love That Lasts Forever

287) We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other. - Lucian o De Crescenzo 

288) It is the passion that i s in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifie s it. - Christian Nestell Bovee
289) Follow love and it will flee; Flee love and it will follow thee. - T. Howell 

290) The thought manifests as the word . The word m anifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch ֆthe thought and its ways with care. A nd let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. - Buddha 

291) What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. - Geor ge Eliot 

292) To get the full value of joy you mu st have someone to divide it with. - Mark Twain 

293) Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be want ed. Like a lam p , it needs to be fed out of the oil of another' s heart, or its flame burns low. - Henry Ward Beecher 

294) Let those love now who never l oved before; Let those who always loved, now love the m o re. - Thomas Parnell 

295) Rom ance is the glamour which turns t h e dust of everyday life into a golden haze. - Elinor Glyn 

296) Love in its essence is spiritual fire. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
297) Wicked men obey from fear; g ood m en, from love. - Aristotle 

298) I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no m o re. I could be ma rtyr' d for m y religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you. - John Keats 

299) Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all not ion of tim e: effaces all memo ry of a beginning, all fear of an end. - Ger mai ne De Stael 

300) All love shifts and changes. I don' t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. - Julie Andrews 

301) The giving of love is an education in itself. - Eleanor Roosevelt 

302) Love talked about can be easily tu rned aside, but love dem onstrated is irresistible. - W. Stanley Mooneyham

303) Som etimes your nearness takes m y breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope m y eyes will speak my heart. - Robert Sexton 

304) Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts ar e earned... - William Butler
Yeats 

305) For a crowd is not comp any; and faces are but a gall ery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cym b al, where there is no love. - Francis Bacon 

306) You were made perfectly to be l oved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life l ong. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

307) O m y Luve' s like a re d, red rose That's newly sprung in June; O m y Luve's like the melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune. - Robert Burns 

308) Love is the history of a woman' s life; it is an episode in man's.
Germaine De Stael 

309) Love is like a mountain, hard to clim b, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful. - Daniel Monroe Tuttle 

310) Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only li ght and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchabl e. - Henry Ward Beecher 

311) There is love of course. And then there's life, its enem y. - Jean
Anouilh ͎ 

312) The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. -
Som erset Maugham 

313) All love is sweet, given or returned. - Percy Bysshe Shelley ᷿ 

314) It is im possible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. -
Muriel Spark 

315) This was love at first sight, lo ve everlasting: a feeling unknown, un-hoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious ᷿
awareness; it took entire possession of hi m, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. - Tho mas Mann 

316) O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first
consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its sil k en wings. - Henry Wadsworth Longfello 

317) The mo st powerful sym p tom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. - Victor Hugo 

318) What the heart has once owned and had, it shall neve r lose. - Henry Ward Beecher 

319) A comp liment is like a kiss through a veil. - Victor Hugo
320) Love that is true ne ver grows old. - Elben Bano 

321) Just because somebody doesnt love you the way you want, do esnt
mean they dont love you with all they have. - Unknown 

322) It is love alone that gives worth to all things. - Santa Teresa de Jesus 

323) Love can be understood only ôfrom the inside,ö as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it. - Robert C. Solom on 

324) You were made perfectly to be l oved and surely I have loved you, in
the idea of you, my whole life long. - Maya Angelou 

325) To love someone is to see a mi racle invisi ble to others. - Francois
Mauriac 

326) Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd. - Louis Aragon 

327) Work and loveùthese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. -Theodor Reik 

328) Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand: The mo re you are in
it, the deeper you si nk. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall. - UB40 

329) The best portion of a good man' s life, His little, nameless,
unremem bered acts, Of kindness and of love. - William Wadsworth 

330) Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin ed, Lawless,
winged, and unconfined, And breaks all chains from ev ery mind. - William Blake 

💔 Heartfelt Quotes on Love and Loss 

The Pain and Beauty of Love

331) To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgott en. - Anonymous 

332) The best portion of a good m an' s life, his little, nameless,
unremem b ered acts, of kindness a nd of love. - William Wordsworth 

333) Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality ... the supreme
activity which nature affords anyone for going out of hims elf toward someone else. - Jose Ortega y Gasset 

334) The only true gift is a portion of yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

335) What the heart gives away is never gone ... It is kept in the hearts of others. - Robin St. John 

336) That love is all there is is a ll we know of love. - Em ily Dickinson 

337) Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little
absence is an age. - John Dryde n 

338) You can't express every feeling that you have every m o ment that you have them. - From the Movie, When Harr y Met Sal l y 

339) Truly loving another me ans letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. - Karen Casey 

340) My love for you is a journey; Starting at forever, and ending at never.- Anonymous 

341) Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree - The
holly is dark when the rose-briar bloom s But which will bloom m o st
constantly? - Emily Bronte 

342) Love is not love until love 's vulnerable. - Theodore Roethke 

343) Love is the child of illusion a nd the parent of disillusion. - Sandy
Wilson 

344) True love never lives happily ever after - true love has no ending. - K.Knight 

345) A heart can be broken; but it keeps beating just the same. - From the Movie, Fried Green Tomatoes 

346) The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may beco me the rule. - Anita Brookner 

347) We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our
embarrassment when alone together. - La Bruyere 

348) To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its m i ssion. - Charles A. Lindbergh 

349) Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the
switch. - Cathy Carlyle 

350) Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. - John Donne 

351) If thou m u st love me, let it be fo r nought Except for love' s sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile...her lo ok...her way Of speaking gently...for a trick of thought That fa lls in well with mi n e, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day - For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee - and love so wrought, May be unwrought so. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

352) Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. - Thornton Wilder 

Moving Forward with Love 

353) The day will come when, after ha rnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we sh all have discovered
fire. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

354) Love is strong yet delicate. It ca n be broken. To truly love is to
understand this. To be in love is to respect this. - Stephen Packer 

355) When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's sel f , and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a ro mance.
- Oscar Wilde 

356) Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one
archenem y -- and that is life. - Jean Anoui lh 

357) Rom antic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into m arriage and then turn down th eir flames. - Thomas Moore 

358) Love the giver m o re th an the gift. - Brigham Young 

359) Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. - P.A.C. de
Beaumarc hais 

360) Love is most nearly itself when he re and now cease to matter. - T.S.
Eliot 

361) Fam iliar acts are beautiful th rough love. - Perc y Bysshe Shelley 

362) Man's love is of man's life a par t; it is a woman' s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. - Lord Byron 

363) I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun
grows cold and the stars grow old. - Willam Shak espeare 

364) Love works a different way in different m i nds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. - John Dryden 

365) The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they m ature
slowly. - Peter De Vries 

366) When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you. - Kuuipo Mark 

367) Fantasy love is mu ch better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The mo st exciting attractions are between two opposi t es that never meet. - Andy Warhol 

368) Lovers who love truly do not wr ite down their happiness. -Anatole France 

369) Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It
takes you by surprise at first, But keeps you warm for a long time. -
Anonymous 

370) The mo re I love m y self (unconditionally) the better I am able to love you - Ken Robbins, Esalen Institute 

371) She had been forced into pruden ce in her yout h, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning. - Jane Austen 

372) Love is the river of life in the world. - Henry Ward Beecher 

373) Love inspires, illumi nes, designates and leads the way. - MBE 

374) Love is the whole and m o re than all. - EE Cumm ings 

375) I love you -- I am at rest with you -- I have come home. - Dorothy L.Sayers 

376) Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life. - Leo Buscaglia 

377) If so many men, so many mi nds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. - Leo Tolstoy 

378) I seem to have l oved you in num b erless form s, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. - Rabindranath Tagore 

379) Love works in m i racles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouri ng the passions, destroying reason , and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. - Mar guerite De Valois 

380) Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart. - Alphonse Marie De
Lamartine 

381) Rom ance shoul d never begin with sentiment. It should begin with
science and end with a settlement. - Oscar Wilde 

382) Rom ance is the fuel that keeps love burni ng hot. - Rusty Silvey 

383) Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things t h at
revolve around l ove. - Marc Chagall 

384) A peace that comes fr om fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace. - Levi ben Gershon 

385) On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life
never faileth so long as there is love. - Henry Drumm ond 

386) There is no surprise m o re magical than the surprise of being loved; it is God' s finger on man' s shoulder. - Charles Morgan 

387) All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has
heart. - Carlos Castaneda 

388) The mo re connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your mi nds, your hear ts, and your soul s, the mo re you will strengthen the fabric of your rela tionship, and the more real moments you will experience together. - Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D. 

389) I' ve looked around enough to know that you' re the one I want to gothrough time with. - Jim Croce 

390) What is life without the radiance of love. - Von Schiller 

391) Love is a m u tual self-giving whic h ends in self-recovery. - Fulton J.Sheen 

392) Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others' love to us. - Thomas Trahern 

393) Among the things you can give a nd still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. - Zig Ziglar 

394) Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so
beautiful. - Stacie Cunni ngha m 

395) Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling,that if made from the heart will outlast anything... - Raul and Samantha Ju arez 

396) Love is like a blazing flam e, golden and full of warmth. - Ben Oliver 

397) A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free As in the
whole world thou canst find That heart I'll give to thee. - Robert Herrick 

398) Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away a ll sense of tim e ,
rem oving all mem o ry of a beginning and all fear of an end. - Ikhide Oshoma 

399) I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing lo w, and the stars are shining bright. - Percy Bysshe
Shelley 

400) What love we'v e given, we' ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. - Leo Buscaglia 

401) Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enr i ched by the other. - Felix Adler
402) You m ay conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss. -Daniel Hein sius

Love Quotes That Capture the Essence of Romance and Passion

Love is the universal language that transcends time, culture, and boundaries. It has inspired poets, philosophers, and dreamers for centuries, shaping literature, music, and art. Whether it’s the passion of first love, the warmth of lifelong companionship, or the bittersweet pain of love lost, every emotion finds its voice in words.

In this article, you’ll discover 400 of the most profound love quotes from history’s greatest minds—writers, thinkers, and visionaries who have beautifully captured the essence of love. Whether you seek inspiration, comfort, or the perfect words to express your feelings, these quotes will resonate with your heart.

Let’s dive into the timeless wisdom of love, one quote at a time.