Love, an emotion as old as humanity itself, has been the muse for poets, artists, and thinkers throughout the ages. It is a feeling that transcends boundaries, defies logic, and often leaves us at a loss for words. Yet, when words do find their way to express this profound emotion, they resonate with a truth that is universally acknowledged. Quotes about love, drawn from various sources and eras, offer a glimpse into the multifaceted nature of this powerful emotion, showcasing its depth, complexity, and inherent beauty.
These quotes serve as a testament to love’s enduring presence in our lives, capturing its essence in a mere handful of words. They remind us of love’s capacity to inspire, heal, and transform. Whether it is the love between friends, family, or romantic partners, these quotes encapsulate the joy, pain, hope, and resilience inherent in love. They invite us to reflect on our own experiences, to find solace in shared sentiments, and to celebrate the love that enriches our lives.
Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes. Gwendoline Christie
Man’s love is of man’s life a part; 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
Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. Pope John Paul II
Our first and last love is self-love. Christian Nestell Bovee
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. Peace Pilgrim
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. Mahatma Gandhi
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
This love is silent. T. S. Eliot
In family relationships, ‘love’ is really spelled ‘t-i-m-e,’ time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. Louise L. Hay
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows. Paulo Coelho
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. Ben Hecht
The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt
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
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. Jack Layton
Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Julius Gordon
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. Torquato Tasso
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. Maya Angelou
Love is space and time measured by the heart. Marcel Proust
Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It’s not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline – and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience. Glennon Doyle Melton
Love is metaphysical gravity. R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Pablo Picasso
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
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 isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you. Loretta Young
To me, a forever love is a bond that can’t be broken. Nick Cannon
Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories. Ariana Grande
I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community. Lady Gaga
When love is gone, there’s always justice. And when justice is gone, there’s always force. And when force is gone, there’s always Mom. Hi, Mom! Laurie Anderson
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. Soren Kierkegaard
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. Michael Novak
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love is a serious mental disease. Plato
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. Ellen G. White
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 mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. Bruce Lee
Love is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein
I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out. Richard Burton
With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling. Britney Spears
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. Yogi Berra
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. Robert A. Heinlein
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. A. J. McLean
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. Stevie Wonder
Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor
Love is my religion – I could die for it. John Keats
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. St. Jerome
The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich
Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Elie Wiesel
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. Wayne Dyer
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. D. H. Lawrence
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Mother Teresa
Life is a game and true love is a trophy. Rufus Wainwright
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. William Shakespeare
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. David Icke
I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect. Taylor Swift
Romantic 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 marriage and then turn down their flames. Thomas Moore
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. Lao Tzu
Love is so short, forgetting is so long. Pablo Neruda
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. Friedrich Nietzsche
They say that love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is. Neil Strauss
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. Thomas Merton
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Jimi Hendrix
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Euripides
True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice. Sadhu Vaswani
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine
What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. Robert Green Ingersoll
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. Rumi
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. Andre Breton
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. John le Carre
Love is three quarters curiosity. Giacomo Casanova
In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love. Marla Gibbs
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. Jonathan Swift
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw
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
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. Theophile Gautier
The art of love is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. Vincent Van Gogh
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get. Warren Buffett
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
Cooking well, with love, is an art. Asha Bhosle
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. Sai Baba
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. James Baldwin
I feel extremely honoured and humbled that people are showing me so much love. My fans have stood by me through thick and thin, and I think this love is what makes my concerts house-full. Yo Yo Honey Singh
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. David Wilkerson
