Love, in all its forms, has inspired countless words of wisdom and reflection across the ages. This collection of quotes about love captures the depth, complexity, and beauty of one of humanity's most profound emotions. From the passionate cries of romantic love to the calming whispers of self-love, these quotes encapsulate the myriad ways in which love touches our lives. They offer solace, inspiration, and perspective while encouraging us to contemplate the true meaning of love. Whether you're seeking words to express your own feelings or seeking inspiration from the sages, our carefully curated quotes span a variety of themes. Dive into the wisdom embedded in each quote as you navigate through the different facets of love.
Romantic Love Quotes
"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."
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"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 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 know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
"In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." - Maya Angelou
"We are most alive when we’re in love." - John Updike
"Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces." - Rumi
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte
"True love is not a hide-and-seek game; in true love, both lovers seek each other." - Michael Bassey Johnson
"Love recognizes no barriers." - Maya Angelou
Inspirational Love Quotes
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." - Karl Menninger
"To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return." - Madonna
"Love is the bridge between you and everything." - Rumi
"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it." - Nicholas Sparks
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." - Morrie Schwartz
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." - James Baldwin
"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." - Loretta Young
"To love and to be loved is to feel the sun on both sides." - David Viscott
"Love is a friendship set to music." - Joseph Campbell
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." - Plato
"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." - George Sand
Self-Love Quotes
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." - Oscar Wilde
"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do." - Brené Brown
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha
"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting." - William Shakespeare
"Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself." - Tyra Banks
"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself." - Steve Maraboli
"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness." - Robert Morley
"No one is you and that is your power."
"Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball
"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody." - Maya Angelou
"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first." - Charles Bukowski
"Talk to yourself like someone you love." - Brené Brown
Unrequited Love Quotes
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." - Khalil Gibran
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." - Mother Teresa
"Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart."
"The heart was made to be broken." - Oscar Wilde
"Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport."
"The worst feeling is falling for someone and knowing that they won't be there to catch you."
"Sometimes you can't explain what you see in a person. It's just the way they take you to a place where no one else can."
"It hurts when you have someone in your heart but can’t have them in your arms."
"Unrequited love does not die; it’s only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded."
"People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love."
"If you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back, then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else."
"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person." - Chuck Palahniuk
Famous Love Quotes
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination." - John Keats
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." - Voltaire
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." - Moulin Rouge
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." - Charles M. Schulz
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." - Robert A. Heinlein
"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
"We accept the love we think we deserve." - Stephen Chbosky
"Love is friendship that has caught fire."
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." - Khalil Gibran
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." - Henry David Thoreau
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song." - Plato
"Love is a better teacher than duty." - Albert Einstein
Soulmate Love Quotes
"A soulmate is someone who understands you like no other." - Cecelia Ahern
"A soulmate is not found. A soulmate is recognized." - Vironika Tugaleva
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte
"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
"You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life." - Richard Bach
"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung
"Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along." - Rumi
"Soulmates tend to find each other during their respective pursuits of their soul missions."
"A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence."
"A soulmate is the one who makes you feel complete, like you are the best version of yourself when you are with them."
Long-Distance Love Quotes
"Distance means so little when someone means so much."
"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." - Charles Dickens
"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." - Thomas Fuller
"The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence." - Edward Thomas
"True love doesn't mean being inseparable; it means being separated and nothing changes."
"The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you."
"In true love, the smallest distance is too great and the greatest distance can be bridged."
"The thought of being with you tomorrow gives me the strength to get through today."
"I don't miss you and you alone – I miss you and me together."
"Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits."
"Distance is not for the fearful; it is for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love."
"When two hearts are meant for each other, no distance is too far."
True Love Quotes
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations."
"True love is not something that comes every day. Follow your heart, it knows the right answer."
"True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice." - Sadhu Vaswani
"A true relationship is two unperfect people refusing to give up on each other."
"True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!" - Dada Vaswani
"True love is the joy of life."
"True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops." - William Goldman
"True love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach
"True love looks for no faults."
"True love understands more than it speaks and gives more than it's asked."
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Hermann Hesse
"True love isn’t about being inseparable; it’s about two people being true to each other even when they are separated."
Funny Love Quotes
"Love is sharing your popcorn." - Charles Schulz
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it."
"Love is being stupid together." - Paul Valery
"My wife, Mary, and I have been married for forty-seven years, and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never." - Jack Benny
"I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?" - Jean Illsley Clarke
"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates
"If love is an illusion, then to hell with reality."
"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." - Oscar Wilde
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." - Rita Rudner
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
"Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions." - Woody Allen
Heartbreak Love Quotes
"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it." - Nicholas Sparks
"Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable." - L. Frank Baum
"The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep." - Margaret George
"Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars."
"Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart."
"It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again."
"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option." - Mark Twain
"The heart was made to be broken." - Oscar Wilde
"Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities." - Patti Roberts
"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." - Kenji Miyazawa
"Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before." - Cassandra Clare
Final words
Love, in its many forms, remains one of the most celebrated and discussed phenomena throughout human history. It permeates every facet of life and influences countless decisions, relationships, and possibilities. Through these quotations about love, we are offered glimpses into the wisdom and perspectives of those who have experienced, pondered, and conveyed what it means to love and be loved. Whether through the romantic musings of a lover’s heart or the reflective insight of a wise sage, these words hold the power to touch our hearts and inspire our paths. In embracing these insights, we remind ourselves of the importance of love in its myriad forms—be it enduring romantic passion, the quest for self-love, or the bittersweet beauty of unrequited love. May these quotes continue to inspire and guide you in your journey of love, helping you to cherish the connections you share, and find resilience in moments of heartache. They remind us that love is not just a feeling but a way of being, a choice we make every day to open our hearts to the possibilities before us.
