Love is a feeling that defies explanation. It’s tender, it’s fierce, and it’s the universal language of the soul. These quotes about love will touch something deep within. Here are 50 love quotes to inspire, comfort, and celebrate the many forms of love.
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
- “Where there is love, there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
- “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
- “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.” — Unknown
- “I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” — Ben Folds
- “I would rather share 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 not about possession. It’s about appreciation.” — Osho
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.” — Maya Angelou
- “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones
- “The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” — G.K. Chesterton
- “Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” — Hermann Hesse
- “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” — L. Frank Baum
- “You’re my favorite notification.” — Unknown
- “I love you like a fat kid loves cake.” — 50 Cent
- “I fell in love with you because you loved me when I couldn’t love myself.” — Unknown
- “You’re the peanut butter to my jelly.” — Unknown
- “You’re kinda, sorta, basically, pretty much always on my mind.” — Unknown
- “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” — Mignon McLaughlin
- “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning
- “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
- “Forever is a long time, but I wouldn’t mind spending it by your side.” — Unknown
- “True love stories never have endings.” — Richard Bach
- “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” — Mother Teresa
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
- “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Do everything in love.” — 1 Corinthians 16:14
- “Love is not something you look for. Love is something you become.” — Alina Villasante
- “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” — T. Tolis
- “The giving of love is an education in itself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell
- “You have bewitched me, body and soul.” — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).” — E.E. Cummings
- “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” — Charles Dickens
- “Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln (interpreted as a call to love authentically)
- “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” — William Shakespeare
- “You’re my today and all of my tomorrows.” — Leo Christopher
- “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” — Maya Angelou
- “I love you more than coffee. But please don’t make me prove it.” — Elizabeth Evans
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse
- “You’re the one I want to annoy for the rest of my life.” — Unknown
- “Home is wherever I’m with you.” — Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Love is many things soft and strong, sweet and fierce, fleeting and forever.
