Love Quotes
Love Quotes For Your Special Someone
If you're in a long-term relationship it would be smart for you to keep a few love quotes in the back of your mind. Whether you want something sweet to say to cover for a bonehead mistake or to whisper to your lover at just the right moment, keep a few of these love quotes at hand.
Some of these quotes are sexy, some are funny, and some are downright cheesy. Since different quotes work in different situations we've organized them into categories.
Cute Love Quotes
If you and your significant other have a silly and light-hearted kind of relationship, these cute love quotes should go over well. They work because they're both cheesy and sincere at the same time.
"When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams."
Dr Seuss
“I’ll be the moon when the sun goes down, just so you know I’m always around.”
Unknown
"No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying."
Unknown
“It is a ridiculous thought but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them.”
Agatha Christie
“When I saw you I was afraid to meet you. When I met you I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I am afraid to lose you.”
Unknown
“If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime.”
Swedish Proverb
“You told me I was pretty when I looked like a mess.”
Unknown
“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.”
Unknown
“Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.”
Unknown
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
William Shakespeare
“We were given two hands to hold, two legs to walk, two eyes to see, two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else, for us to find.”
Unknown
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Ingrid Bergman
“Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.”
Unknown
“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desirable.”
Robert Frost
“If you love me, let me know. If not, gently let me go.”
Unknown
Sad Love Quotes
Sad love quotes are good for when someone gets down about love. Did you get dumped, or did one of your buddy's have his heart broken? Use one of these quotes to raise the spirits of the most jilted of lovers.
“Why do people have to lose things to find out what they really mean?”
Unknown
“You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.”
Henny Youngman
"Cry as I may these tears won’t wash you away."
Unknown
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I miss you a little, I guess you could say, a little too much, a little too often, and a little more each day.”
Unknown
“There are two times in every man's life when he is thoroughly happy; just after he has met his first love and just after he has parted from his last one.”
H. L. Mencken
"Breaking up is just like having the worst nightmare after having the best dream."
Unknown
“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
“Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.”
David Grayson
“If I had to choose between loving you and breathing, I would use my last breath to say I love you.”
Unknown
"The times we were happy together are worth the times I cry alone."'
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Kahlil Gibran
“There's this place in me where your finger prints still rest... your kisses still linger and your whispers softly echo... It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.”
Unknown
“Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met.”
Unknown
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.”
Samuel Butler
Love Quotes and Sayings
These generic love quotes are good for toasts or for slipping into a romantic conversation with your lover. Make sure you practice the quote before you deliver it -- there's nothing less romantic than a flubbed line.
“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”
Mae West
“Love is perfect kindness.”
Joseph Campbell
“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”
Lord Byron
“What was the point of having unending life if that life was without love?”
Unknown
“Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Unknown
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
Voltaire
“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
Unknown
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Unknown
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Lao Tzu
“In every living thing there is the desire for love.”
D.H. Lawrence
“It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
Andre Gide
“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.”
Robert Burton
“Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.”
Unknown
“Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.”
Unknown
Famous Love Quotes
Stick with sme quotes used by those who are just better at it than you. Relying on quotes that have already been tested and approved is a good way to be confident about dropping a romantic line into conversation.
“A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.”
Voltaire
“All you need is love.”
John Lennon
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
Plato
“I think it’s nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it.”
Drew Barrymore
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.”
Honore de Balzac
“With love and patience, nothing is impossible.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.”
Lao Tzu
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
Mother Teresa
“Love can make you do things that you never thought possible.”
Phil Collins
“I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.”
Mae West
“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, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Buddha
“To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.”
Goethe
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - What women like is to be a man's last romance."
Oscar Wilde
Short Love Quotes
You've heard that good things come in small packages. These quotes speak volumes with just a few words. Try scribbling one of these short love quotes on a greeting card or in the steam of the mirror when your lover takes a shower.
“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Albert Einstein
“Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.”
Unknown
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.”
Barbara de Angelis
“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
Toni Morrison
“Love is great when you find someone to give it to.”
Unknown
“Reason and love are sworn enemies.”
Unknown
“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.”
Agnes Repplier
“All mankind loves a lover.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.”
Unknown
"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others."
Francois Mauriac
“All is fair in love and war.”
Unknown
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
E. Joseph Cossman
“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”
Jim Morrison
“You call it madness, but I call it love.”
Don Byas
Funny Love Quotes
"If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? "
Lily Tomlin
“There are three kinds of men who do not understand women: Young, old, and middle-aged.”
Unknown
"An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her."
Agatha Christie
“There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.”
Unknown
"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
Oscar Wilde
“When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife is.”
Unknown
"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."
Woody Allen
“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.”
Unknown
“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”
Unknown
"The bravest thing that men do is love women."
Mort Sahl
“Love is being stupid together.”
Unknown
“Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.”
Unknown
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.”
Unknown
"Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing."
Helen Rowland
"Never go to bed mad -- stay up and fight."
Phyllis Diller
Sweet Love Quotes
These love quotes could even be used on a close friend -- not every love quote is romantic. Here are some nice sweet love quotes for use in non traditional settings.
“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
Karl Menninger
"If music be the food of love; play on."
William Shakespeare
“If rain drops were kisses, I could send you showers. If hugs were seas I could send you oceans. And if love was a person I could send you me.”
Unknown
"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others."
Francois Mauriac
“Love is like a butterfly, it settles upon you when you least expect it.”
Unknown
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Ingrid Bergman
“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”
Unknown
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Unknown
“I'd like to run away from you. But if you didn't come and find me ... I would die."
Unknown
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
Stendhal
“Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.”
Unknown
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”
Unknown
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world Is a woman's heart."
Josiah G. Holland
"For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."
Unknown
Best Love Quotes
If you need a really strong line to drop on your sweetheart, try one of the best known love quotes. Below are several famous love quotes -- I imagine you can come up with several more on your own.
"Love is the beauty of the soul."
Unknown
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
Henry David Thoreau
"....A simple I love you means more than money...."
Frank Sinatra
“Love isn't finding a perfect person, it's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
Unknown
“You give me something no one else can, a reason to live.”
Unknown
"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Elizabeth Browning
"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
Thomas Fuller
“Please be careful with my heart. You can take it, just don't break it or my world would fall apart.”
Unknown
"For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it."
Ivan Panin
“To see you is what my eyes long for, to touch you is what my body longs for, but to love you, my heart has done already for a long time.”
Unknown
"Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough."
Pierre De Beaumarchais
“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
Victor Hugo
“If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest.”
Unknown
"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."
Erich Fromm
"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence."
Vincent van Gogh
Movie Love Quotes
The movies have given us some of our most famous quotes about love. Since the early days of cinema through Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca up to Hugh Grant in Notting Hill, movie stars have taught us the words to use when we're in love.
“When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it serendipity.”
Serendipity
“Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.”
Sleepless in Seattle
"Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants, murderers and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end they always fail."
Gandhi
“Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime, and never let go till we're gone.”
Titanic
“I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.”
Forrest Gump
“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.”
When Harry Met Sally
"Don't forget. I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy...asking him to love her."
Notting Hill
"Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time."
Casablanca
"Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever.. and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you."
Meet Joe Black
“Some things are not meant to last, they just take a place in your heart and make you smarter the next time.”
Alex and Emma
"When they ask me what I liked best, I'll tell them it was you."
City Of Angels
“I would rather fight with you than make love to anyone else.”
The Wedding Date
“If I could ask God one thing, it would be to stop the moon. Stop the moon and make this night and your beauty last forever.”
A Knight’s Tale
“Real loss only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself.”
Good Will Hunting
True Love Quotes
True love is that undefinable feeling of belonging, that sense of perfect love that you get when you're totally connected to another person. Here are some good quotes you can use to describe your feeling of true love.
“The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.”
Kahlil Gibran
“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Before I met you I never knew what it was like to smile for no reason.”
Unknown
“Distance, it is a test of love, many will fail, but for those who can withstand it have the answer: true love.”
Unknown
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.”
Sir Walter Scott
“You can always close your eyes to the things you don't want to see. But you can’t close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”
Unknown
“Love which has been tested by distance and obstacles, and has passed, is true love.”
Unknown
“Don't say you love me unless you really mean it, because I might do something crazy like believe it.”
Unknown
“The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo
“The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”
Margaret Atwood
"The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival."
Leo F. Buscaglia
"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
Jalal-Uddin Rumi
“True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.”
Jim Bishop
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Inspirational Love Quotes
If your lover is feeling down or having a bad day, use an inspirational love quote to give them a little boost. These love quotes are positive and uplifting.
“Time may take us apart, that's true, but I will always be there for you. You're in my heart, you'll be in my dreams, no matter the miles between.”
Unknown
“When I found you, I felt as if my heart found its destination.”
Unknown
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Mother Teresa
"Let the world stop turning, Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you."
Bette Midler
“No matter how many times I try and move on, my heart always takes me back here to you.”
Unknown
“Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.”
Unknown
"Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope."
Josh Billings
“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”
Leo Buscaglia
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Faults are thick where love is thin."
Unknown
“The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.”
St. Teresa of Avila
“Forever is not a word, rather a place where two lovers go when true love takes them there.”
Unknown
“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”
J. Krishnamurti
"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them."
Stephen Edwin King
Romantic Love Quotes
These are my favorite love quotes to use on women -- they are straight to the point. These romantic love quotes are way less corny than other types of love quotes.
“This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.”'
Thomas Mann
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
Zora Neale Hurston
"Would you be my angel to have and to hold? Would you be my rose to cherish more than gold? I love you so much. I wish you were mine, but all I can do is wait till that time."
Unknown
"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."
Robert Browning
"Late at night when all the world is sleeping, I stay up and think of you. And I wish on a star, that somewhere you are thinking of me too."
Unknown
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
Unknown
“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”
Louise Erdrich
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."
Henry Van Dyke
"Hearts are not to be had as a gift - hearts are to be earned."
William Butler Yeats
“Love is something that cannot be explained. It is the force that drives us to protect the ones we care about.”
Unknown
“I wrote your name in the sand, but the waves washed it away. I wrote your name on a piece of paper, but it got thrown away. I wrote your name in the sky, but the wind blew it away. So, I wrote your name in my heart and that's where it will stay.”
Unknown
“So, fall asleep love, loved by me....for I know love, I am loved by thee.”
Robert Browning
“One word frees us, Of all the weigh and pain in life, That word is Love.”
Unknown
“You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Love is the only gold."
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Good Love Quotes
Use the following quotes to keep yourself grounded when you're in love -- these are good love quotes for people who are just starting to fall in love.
"If you love someone, do not put their name in a heart because hearts can be broken, instead put their name in a circle, because circles go on forever."
Unknown
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”
Emmanuel Swedenborg
“Some pray to marry the man they love, My prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to Heaven above That I love the man I marry.”
Rose Pastor Stokes
"Love is forever, and if it doesn't last forever it isn't love."
Dottie Kinealy
“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.”
George Eliot
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”
William Shakespeare
"Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever."
Unknown
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.”
Walter Scott
“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.”
Henry Drummond
“Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.”
Edwin Arlington Robinson
"When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever."
Unknown
“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”
Pearl S. Buck
“But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.”
George Moore
New Love Quotes
If you've run through the classic love quotes, look here for something not as conventioanl. These love quotes are not as popular as others but work just as well.
"They say, 'A picture is worth a thousand words,' but when I saw yours, I was speechless."
Unknown
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing’d cupid painted blind.”
William Shakespeare
“Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.”
Boris Pasternak
“I was afraid of love, I thought love took time, like a fine wine aging in the cellar. I was wrong. Love is there from the moment you see that person, embrace it let it grow, follow your heart, not your mind.”
Unknown
"You are my first romance and I'm willing to take a chance; until life is through, I'll still be loving you. I will be true to you, just a promise from you will do. From the very start, please be careful with my heart."
Jose Mari Chan
“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
John Donne
“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
“He looks at me and my heart starts skipping beats, my face starts to glow, and my eyes start to twinkle. Imagine what he would do to me if he smiled!”
Unknown
"When two souls, that have shed their loneliness, embrace and melt into one; from out of loneliness, love is born."
Mori Yuriko
“Falling in love is not an extension of one’s limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.”
M. Scott Peck
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
Peter Ustinov
“Don't let doubts lose the magic of love, because it's not every day you meet someone who has the magic to let you fall in love.”
Unknown
"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love. The running across fields into your lovers arms can only come when you’re sure they won't laugh if you trip."
Unknown
“Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?”
Christopher Marlowe
“I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its coming with all my heart.”
Alice Walker
Bible Love Quotes
For many Christians the Holy Bible is the perfect source for wisdom and inspiration. Here are some quotes about love from the Bible.
“My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”
I John 3:18
"Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away."
1 Corinthians 14:1
"So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate."
Mark 10:8-9
“So Jacob worked seven years to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.”
Genesis 29:20
“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Galatians 5:14
"I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have the faith needed to move mountains-but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned-but if I have no love, this does me no good."
1 Corinthians, 13:1-13
"Come let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves."
Proverbs 7:18
“Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.”
Proverbs 10:12
“These things I command you, that ye love one another.”
John 15:17
"When one finds a worthy wife, her value is far beyond pearls. Her husband entrusting his heart to her, has an unfailing prize."
Proverbs 31:10-11
"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it."
Song of Solomon 8:7
“Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends.”
Proverbs 17:9
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.”
John 4:18
"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine."
Song of Solomon 1:2
"He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love."
John 4:8
French Love Quotes
French is known as the language of love, and the French people are conisdered some of the most romantic in the world. Here's a list of love quotes from some very romantic French sources.
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand
“The price of love is simply love. One must love if one wants to be loved.”
Unknown
“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
Honoré de Balzac
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”
Jules Renard
“I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.”
Voltaire
“Being in love is not looking at one another, but looking together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Love is being stupid together.”
Paul Valery
“There are three things I have always loved, and never understood—painting, music, women.”
Fontenelle
“It was beginning with you that I said yes to the world.”
Paul Éluard
“Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.”
Chamfort
“That's love: giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of returns.”
Albert Camus
“Life is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
Voltaire
“Tell me who admires you and loves you and I will tell you who you are.”
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Twilight Love Quotes
The Twilight series of books and movies has come to symbolize love for an entire generation of fans. Here are some of the more romantic love quotes from Twilight.
Bella: "Look, I love you more than everything else in the world combined. Isn't that enough?"
Edward: "Yes, it is enough. Enough for forever."
Edward: “You are my life now.”
Edward: “And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.”
Bella: “What a stupid lamb.”
Edward: “What a sick, masochistic lion.”
Edward: “Your scent, it's like a drug to me. You're like my own personal brand of heroin.”
Edward: "It didn't matter?"
Bella: "No, it doesn't matter me what you are."
Bella: “I'd rather die than to stay away from you.”
Edward: “I only said it would be better if we weren't friends, not that I didn't want to be.”
Bella: “What does that mean?”
Edward: “It means if you're smart... you'll stay away from me.”
Bella: “Okay, let's say for argument's sake that I'm not smart.”
Bella: “About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him – and I didn't know how potent that part might be - that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.”
Edward: "Do you truly believe that you care more for me than I do for you?"
Edward: "Bella, I couldn't live with myself if I ever hurt you. You don't know how it's tortured me. The thought of you, still, white, cold…to never see you blush scarlet again, to never see that flash of intuition in your eyes when you were though my pretenses...it would be unendurable. You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever."
Edward: “You don't know how long I've waited for you.”
Edward: “I hate you for making me want you so much.”
Edward: "Isn't it supposed to be like this? The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in pictures, and experiencing it?"
Edward: "And then, as you were sleeping you said my name."
Great Love Quotes
These are the big love quotes, the sayings about the big side of love, the best quotes about capital-L Love.
“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”
William Shakespeare
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller
“To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.”
Petrarch
"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life."
Smiley Blanton
"Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.”
John Donne
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
Unknown
“Love is a gift, not an obligation, follow your heart and always trust the person you love.”
Unknown
"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble and attempts what is above its strength."
Thomas A Kempis
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
Oscar Wilde
“Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.”
Karen Casey
“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.”
Unknown
Happy Love Quotes
Love quotes aren't all sappy and sad. The feeling of love is a happy feeling, and you should be familiar with plenty of positive quotes about love. Here's some favorites.
"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip."
Jonathan Carroll
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
Unknown
"When love is not madness, it is not love."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
“People happy in love have an air of intensity.”
Unknown
“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder.”
Charles Morgan
“Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.”
Unknown
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
Unknown
"Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones."
Mignon McLaughlin
“Through any kind of weather, what if the sky should fall, just as long as we're together, doesn't matter much at all.”
Judy Blume
“Love is a path to the heart that knows its own way.”
Unknown
“Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.”
Michael Leunig
“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
Boethius
“Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.”
Ralph Connor
“It takes a lot to hate you, It takes too much to forget you, But it took so little to love you."
Unknown
"When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”
Elisabeth Bowen
Friendship Love Quotes
Everyone has friends whom they love -- special people that you couldn't live without. Brighten their day today with a friendly love quote.
“I never want you to think that you are anything less than amazing.”
Unknown
"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep, for my shadow in the pool can do better than that."
Confucious
"Stars are like friends; there's always some around, you just need to find your favorite one."
Unknown
“The best friend you can have is one you can sit on the porch with and not say a word, then get up and feel like that was the best conversation you've ever had.”
Unknown
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
Abraham Lincoln
“Never give up on the things that make you smile.”
Unknown
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
Lee Iacocca
"Friends are born, not made."
Henry Adams
“Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart."
Unknown
“I will always be there for you, through the good times and the bad, the smooth and the rough, or just any other time you need somebody. Just look for me, and I'll be there for you.”
Unknown
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
Thomas Jefferson
"Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucious
"It is the friends that you can call at 4 A.M. that matter."
Marlene Dietrich
You can use a love quote for just about any occassion. Need to give a toast at a wedding or scribble something friendly on a Christmas card? Or maybe you want to be able to whisper some sweet nothings into your lover's ear. Either way, using a quote about love is a strong move. No matter the source, quotes about love inspire and excite us to be better people than we are.