Love is a fundamental and intricate aspect of human life that has puzzled, inspired, and moved people for centuries. This collection of quotes about love, taken from an array of literary masterpieces, aims to capture the essence and multifaceted nature of love. Ranging from the euphoria of newfound romance to the challenges of enduring love, these quotes delve into the heart of human relationships and emotions. Perfect for sharing on social media or in personal reflections, these words of wisdom remind us of the beauty and depth of this powerful emotion.
Quotes on New Love
"Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear." - E.E. Cummings
"In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave and suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free." - Maya Angelou
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung
"We loved with a love that was more than love." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it’s safe inside your mouth." - Jodi Picoult
"I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat here, dying, as I did with my brothers a unique declaration: I love my country, I love my people, I love my flag." - Che Guevara
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." - Plato
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart." - Jane Austen
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." - John Green
Quotes on Unconditional Love
"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return." - Madonna
"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 love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride." - Pablo Neruda
"True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves." - Jeffrey R. Holland
"The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." - Eden Ahbez
"But I love you, I’m totally and completely in love with you, and I don’t care if you think it’s too late. I’m telling you anyway." - Natalie Portman
"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." - Paulo Coelho
"Unconditional love is not about being without flaws; it’s about continuing to love despite them." - Shelly Crane
"You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not." - Jodi Picoult
"True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does." - Torquato Tasso
"The giving of love is an education in itself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do." - David Wilkerson
Quotes on Enduring Love
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same." - Helen Keller
"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"True love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach
"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being." - Tom Robbins
"Where there is love, there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." - Maya Angelou
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." - Voltaire
"To love and be loved is to the feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"The giving of love is an education in itself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." - Michael Leunig
Quotes on Self-Love
"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
"How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you." - Rupi Kaur
"Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends." - Aberjhani
"Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity." - Katrina Mayer
"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness." - Robert Morley
"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do." - Brené Brown
"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, but you also have an obligation to be one." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself." - Tyra Banks
"You are enough just as you are." - Meghan Markle
"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love." - Brene Brown
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Quotes on Love and Sacrifice
"Love is not about how much you say ‘I love you’, but how much you prove that it’s true." - Unknown
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." - Henry David Thoreau
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice." - Sadhu Vaswani
"Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"To love someone means to see them as God intended them." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The greatest sacrifice is when you sacrifice your own happiness for the sake of someone else." - Unknown
"Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation." - Osho
"In true love, you attain freedom." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"The best proof of love is trust." - Joyce Brothers
"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotes on Romantic Love
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë
"You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze." - Elinor Glyn
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Hermann Hesse
"Love is a dream that comes alive when we meet." - Yuri Zhivago
"My heart is, and always will be, yours." - Jane Austen
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." - Audrey Hepburn
"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 is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." - Voltaire
"To love and be loved is to the feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"Love liberates. It doesn’t bind." - Maya Angelou
"True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning." - Nicholas Sparks
Quotes on Family Love
"Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they’re driving you crazy." - Jenna Morasca
"The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing." - Unknown
"Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten." - David Ogden Stiers
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life." - Richard Bach
"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life." - Albert Einstein
"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family." - Anthony Brandt
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." - George Bernard Shaw
"Family is not an important thing. It's everything." - Michael J. Fox
"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family." - Lee Iacocca
"Family gives you the roots to stand tall and strong." - Unknown
"Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful." - Lisa Weed
"The love in our family flows strong and deep, leaving us memories to treasure and keep." - Unknown
Quotes on Love and Patience
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud." - Corinthians 13:4
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." - St. Augustine
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." - Charles Dickens
"The course of true love never did run smooth." - William Shakespeare
"The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be." - Dalai Lama
"Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting." - Joyce Meyer
"Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do." - David Wilkerson
"Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything." - George Bernard Shaw
"In order to love simply, it’s necessary to resign oneself to living a life free of all possessiveness, to having faith that the other person will not become a prisoner of one’s possession." - Kahlil Gibran
"Genuine love involves not only passion, but also commitment and wisdom. Patience is a characteristic of love, like a flower's beauty knows no urgency." – Unknown
"Patience is the key to everlasting love. Sometimes, you have to wait for the right moment to express the depth of your feelings." - Unknown
"Patience in love is not about waiting, but how we wait and what we become while we are waiting." – Unknown
Quotes on The Power of Love
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." - Plato
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"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
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." - Charles Dickens
"We love because it’s the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." - Henry David Thoreau
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama
"Love is an endless act of forgiveness." - Peter Ustinov
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." - Henry Miller
Quotes on Love and Friendship
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." - Elbert Hubbard
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." - Elie Wiesel
"A friend is what the heart needs all the time." - Henry Van Dyke
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." - Hubert H. Humphrey
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'" - C.S. Lewis
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Thomas Aquinas
"A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden." - Unknown
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell
Final words
Love, in its myriad forms and expressions, is a profound and transformative experience that enriches our lives in countless ways. The quotes compiled in this article serve as a testament to the enduring power and beauty of love, capturing the wisdom of authors, philosophers, and thinkers across time. Whether it is the excitement of new love, the strength of enduring love, the necessity of self-love, or the unbreakable bonds of family and friendship, love remains a central theme that resonates deeply with the human spirit. These quotes remind us that love is not merely an emotion but an action, a choice, and the ultimate truth that binds us all. As you reflect on these words, may you find inspiration, comfort, and a deeper appreciation for the love that surrounds you and those you cherish.
