Love has a way of touching our hearts and souls. It connects us in ways that often words can’t explain. Yet, sometimes, a simple quote can capture the depth of our feelings perfectly.
In this article, we’ve gathered the best love quotes that speak to the beauty and complexity of love. These quotes can bring a smile, a tear, or a moment of reflection. Whether you’re in love, searching for love, or cherishing memories, these words will resonate with you.
Love Quotes For Him
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” – T. Tolis
“You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had.” – Nicholas Sparks
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland
“You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” – E.E. Cummings
“Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth.” – Eleanor Di Guillo
“Everywhere I look I am reminded of your love. You are my world.” – Anonymous
“Thank you for being you, for sharing your love with me; for inspiring me to accept myself; for helping me see the unique beauty in imperfection; for showing me that love is something you do; something not just to be said, but also to be shown.” – Steve Maraboli
“Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control.” – Anonymous
“I never knew what love was until I met you. Then when distance pulled us apart, I found out what true love is.” – Anonymous
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” – Bill Wilson
“My heart is and always will be yours.” – Jane Austen
“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.” – Nicholas Sparks
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.” – Jane Austen
“My love for you is a journey, starting at forever and ending at never.” – Anonymous
Love Quotes For Her
“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” – Gabriel García Márquez
“I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë
“Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth.” – Eleanor Di Guillo
“I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.” – Anonymous
“Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.” – Anonymous
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.” – Jane Austen
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known – and even that is an understatement.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“My heart is, and always will be, yours.” – Jane Austen
“I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” – Ben Folds
“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” – Bill Wilson
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” – Leo Christopher
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Herman Hesse
“You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” – E.E. Cummings
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou
Quotes about First Love
“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.” – George Bernard Shaw
“When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it, and you open yourself up to it.” – Patrick Dempsey
“First love never dies, but true love can bury it alive.” – Anonymous
“We never forget that which makes our heart leap for the first time.” – Anonymous
“There’s no love like the first.” – Nicholas Sparks, “The Notebook”
“Youth’s first love is always the most exhilarating.” – Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina”
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.” – Honoré de Balzac
“She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.” – James Patterson, ”Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas”
“First love is a fresh breeze that can’t be captured in a bottle.” – Anonymous
“You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.” – Mo Ibrahim
“Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
“First love is dangerous only when it is also the last.” – Branislav Nusic
“First love is the revolution that turns your world upside down and paints the sky in a thousand colors.” – Anonymous
“To love for the first time is to understand what it means to truly live.” – Anonymous
“Your first love isn’t necessarily the first person you give your heart to – it’s the first one who breaks it.” – Lang Leav
“First love is bittersweet, just like the scent of a blooming cherry blossom.” – Anonymous
“First loves are often people we’ve known for years, sharing secrets and dreams while growing up together.” – Isabel Allende
Romantic Quotes for Couples
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo
“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
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito
“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
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare
“In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” – Virginia Woolf
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” – Oscar Wilde
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” – Bill Wilson
Inspirational Love Quotes
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare
“And the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – Paul McCartney
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou
“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“And it was in the tiniest moment of our connection that I realized, love is indeed a collection of little moments that matter most.” – Emily Bronte
“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” – John Lennon
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” – T. Tolis
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” – János Arany
Sad Love Quotes
“The saddest thing about love is not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner
“I have waited for you as one waits for a train at a deserted station, waiting and hoping, knowing there is no train.” – Pablo Neruda
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
“Love is the hardest habit to break and the most difficult to satisfy.” – Drew Barrymore
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
“The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” – Bess Myerson
“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead, keep your head up high and gaze into heaven, for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.” – Anonymous
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.” – Jim Rohn
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.” – L. Frank Baum
“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.” – François de La Rochefoucauld
“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.” – Javan
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.” – Anaïs Nin
“There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you.” – Steve Maraboli
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled away: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life.” – Plato
Love Quotes for Hard Times
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.” – Anne-Sophie Swetchine
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
“When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.” – Coco J. Ginger
“No one ever said that love was easy… but it is always worth it.” – Unknown
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
“After all the loves of my life, I’ll be thinking of you and wondering why.” – Stevie Wonder
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost
“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing.” – Jack Kornfield
“Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” – David Wilkerson
“The best proof of love is trust.” – Joyce Brothers
“Our souls have conversations words could never describe.” – Bridgett Devoue
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Cute Love Quotes
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
“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
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubinstein
“You make me smile without even trying.” – Anonymous
“In your smile I find something more beautiful than stars.” – Original
Love Yourself Quotes
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
“Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” – Veronica A. Shoffstall
“Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line.” – Lucille Ball
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley
“Once you embrace your value, talents, and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.” – Rob Liano
“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” – William Shakespeare
“You were born to be real, not to be perfect.” – Ralph Marston
“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” – Aberjhani
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown
“You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
Short Love Quotes
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Anonymous
“The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things.” – Woody Allen
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.” – Plato
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire
“Even when words fail, love speaks.” – Original Quote
“Your love is the key to my heart’s secret garden.” – Original Quote
Funny Love Quotes
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
“I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” – Rita Rudner
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.” – Rodney Dangerfield
“I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.” – Elizabeth Evans
“Love is like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays but you know it’s there.” – George Burns
“I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?” – Jean Illsley Clarke
“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” – Erma Bombeck
“Love is the only kind of fire which is never covered by insurance.” – Unknown
“Love is telling someone their hair extensions are showing.” – Natasha Leggero
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.” – Will Ferrell
“Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair, and devastating, it will be that much easier.” – Mae West
“If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?” – Lily Tomlin
“Love is like a card game. Hearts are trumps, and one mistake could be a club to the head.” – Anonymous
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz
Famous Love Quotes
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” – Sarah Dessen
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.” – C.S. Lewis
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” – János Arany
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
“I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.” – Song of Solomon 6:3
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft
Timeless Love Quotes
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost
“the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – The Beatles
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.” – Unknown
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” – Blaise Pascal
“Your love is all I need to feel complete.” – Anonymous
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Nat King Cole
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” – T. Tolis
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
Quotes on Unconditional Love
“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken.” – William Shakespeare
“To love is to recognize yourself in another.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubinstein
“Unconditional love is not a weakness. It’s a strength that brings us closer to our true selves.” – Unknown
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna
“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
“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
“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.” – Brian Tracy
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” – Albert Ellis
“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.” – Rick Warren
“Unconditional love does not come with a contract. It just happens, and it is rare to find.” – Unknown
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” – Willa Cather
“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.” – A.J. Jacobs
Love Quotes for Every Mood
“Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” – David Wilkerson
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” – János Arany
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim
“Love is a better teacher than duty.” – Albert Einstein
“When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.” – John Lennon
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” – Karl A. Menninger
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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 is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” – T. Tolis
“In love, we find out who we want to be; in war, we find out who we are.” – Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
Wrapping Up
Love quotes can touch our hearts and offer a simple, yet powerful way to express our deepest emotions. They can inspire us, comfort us, and remind us of the beauty of love. Whether you’re looking for the perfect words to say to someone special or just need a little reminder of the power of love, the right quote can make all the difference.
Take a moment to reflect on these quotes and let them bring warmth to your day. Share them with friends, family, or a special someone to spread a little love. Sometimes, a few well-chosen words can make a big impact.
