100+ Heartfelt Book Quotes About Love
Embarking on a journey through the pages of literature, we explore the myriad expressions of love captured by the wisdom of authors throughout the ages. From the passionate prose of classic novels to the insightful reflections of contemporary writers, these book quotes about love offer a glimpse into the diverse spectrum of human emotions, inviting readers to reflect, resonate, and revel in the magic of love. Each quote is a testament to love's enduring power, its gentle nuances, and its undeniable impact on our lives. Dive into the intimate corners of the literary world and let these words inspire your heart.
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you." — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be." — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how." — Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
"We are all fools in love." — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed." — A.S. Byatt, Possession
"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further." — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
"You’re too much of a joy for me.” — Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
"I am nothing special, of this I am sure. But I have loved you since our day began, and I will love you as the stars fade into the sun's embrace." — Anonymous
"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds." — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
"Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk." — Gayle Forman, Just One Day
"I want to be with you until the sun falls from the sky." — J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal
"And would it have been worth it, after all, after the cups, the marmalade, the tea, among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, would it have been worthwhile?" — T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
"You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones." — Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
"Loving someone doesn’t mean needing them or constantly wanting their company. Love is an absolute, infinite feeling and it can be lonely and beautiful all at once." — Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
"The right person will come, once you have suffered enough to deserve them." — Juansen Dizon, Confessions of a Wallflower
"You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." — E.E. Cummings
"In a world full of temporary things, you are my forever." — Anonymous
"You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults." — William Faulkner
"We were together even when we were apart." — Shannon A. Thompson, Death Before Daylight
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." — Robert Frost
"I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too." — Charles Bukowski
"I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone." — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
"If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them." — Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them." — Agatha Christie, An Autobiography
"He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
"When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides." — Louis de Bernières, Corelli's Mandolin
"True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning." — Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
"You cast a spell on me, and I am forever enchanted." — Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard
"I’ve fallen in love many times…always with you." — Anonymous
"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew." — Arrigo Boito
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world." — Bill Wilson
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." — Aristotle
"Everywhere I look I am reminded of your love. You are my world." — Anonymous
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." — Roy Croft
"Love is a friendship set to music." — Joseph Campbell
"We loved with a love that was more than love." — Edgar Allan Poe
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." — Hermann Hesse
"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space." — Marilyn Monroe
"In your light, I learn how to love." — Rumi
"Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth." — Eleanor Di Guillo
"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." — János Arnay
"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
"My heart is, and always will be, yours." — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
"Whatever souls are made of, yours and mine are the same." — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
"Each time you happen to me all over again." — Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
"Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears." — Ovid
"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways." — L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
"When love is not madness, it is not love." — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
"We loved with a love that was more than love." — Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
"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 Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
"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
"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." — Henry Miller
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not." — Blaise Pascal
"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, The Lathe of Heaven
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." — David Viscott
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." — Maya Angelou
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." — Henry David Thoreau
"Where there is love there is life." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn
"Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches." — William Goldman, The Princess Bride
"The giving of love is an education in itself." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
"I am his and he is mine, and it has been that way all along." — Veronica Roth, Allegiant
"We loved with a love that was more than love." — Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart." — Jane Austen
"For you, a thousand times over." — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." — Peter Ustinov
"You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught." — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." — Victor Hugo
"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." — Khalil Gibran
"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." — Henry Miller
"Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief." — Robert Fulghum
"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever." — Rabindranath Tagore
"I will love you until the stars go out, and the tides no longer turn." — Anonymous
"To love is to be vulnerable." — C.S. Lewis
"I would find you in any lifetime." — Kanye West
"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." — William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love, no burden is too heavy because it is carried with the utmost joy." — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." — Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"Until death, we are twins, inseparable." — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"In my opinion, the best thing you can do is marry the man or woman who makes you a better person." — Anonymous
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever." — Alfred Tennyson
"I am irrevocably in love with you." — Stephanie Meyer, Twilight
"I do love nothing in the world so well as you, is not that strange?" — William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
"I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you." — Anonymous
"With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love." — Ilsa in Casablanca
"You and I are embers from the same fire, made of the same star-stuff." — C.R. Asher
"Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it." — Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." — Joan Crawford
"I love you the way a drowning man loves air." — Rae Carson, The Crown of Embers
"True love stories never have endings." — Richard Bach
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." — Jimi Hendrix
"You have me. Until every last star in the galaxy dies. You have me." — Amie Kaufman, Illuminae
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." — Voltaire
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." — Plato
"And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars." — Beth Revis, Across the Universe
"There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then." — Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
"I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you." — Ben Folds, The Luckiest
"If I had to choose between breathing and loving you, I would use my last breath to tell you I love you." — DeAnna Anderson
"A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you." — Anonymous
"You are the one girl that made me risk everything for a future worth having." — Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
"I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you." — Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
"The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return." — Nat King Cole, "Nature Boy"
"I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow." — Leo Christopher
"I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone." — J.R.R. Tolkien
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." — A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
"All that you are is all that I’ll ever need." — Ed Sheeran, "Tenerife Sea"
