Shakespeare's musings on love have mesmerized audiences for centuries, offering profound insights into the passion, agony, and ecstasy of human affection. His poetic language carries an eternal charm, capturing the essence and complexities of love in ways few others can. This article dives deep into the vast ocean of his works to bring you a curated collection of Shakespearean love quotes. Divided under ten distinct subcategories, each themed to highlight a particular facet of love, this masterful compilation is designed to inspire, uplift, and enthrall everyone from budding romantics to seasoned lovers. Let these timeless words infuse your heart with wonder and transport you to the mesmerizing world of Shakespeare.
Quotes about Everlasting Love
"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."
"To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still."
"But love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit."
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
"No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved."
"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."
"Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service."
"In thy youth wast seen that virtue and wisdom in thy tongue, yet love dwelled always in your heart."
"For thy sweet love remembered, such wealth brings that then I scorn to change my state with kings."
"I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?"
"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"
"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom."
Quotes on the Pain of Love
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew."
"They do not love who do not show their love."
"If love be rough with you, be rough with love."
"A misery that noble souls cannot endure without love’s touch."
"Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow."
"I am one who loved not wisely but too well."
"My only love sprung from my only hate."
"Oft our joys herald sorrow in their birth."
"Love is merely a madness."
"Such is the force of love in gentle minds."
Romantic Shakespeare Love Quotes
"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate."
"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."
"I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, to die upon the hand I love so well."
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep."
"When you depart from me, sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave."
"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
"I will wear him in my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart."
"Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love."
"With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls."
"If music be the food of love, play on."
"For where thou art, there is the world itself."
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments."
Quotes about the Magic of Love
"There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned."
"Journeys end in lovers' meeting."
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
"The sight of lovers feedeth those in love."
"A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee."
"Lovers can see to do their amorous rites by their own beauties."
"Love lent me wings."
"Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness."
"Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave."
"One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun ne’er saw her match since first the world begun."
"O, teach me how I should forget to think of her!"
"True love cannot be found where it does not truly exist."
Tragic Shakespeare Love Quotes
"These violent delights have violent ends."
"What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
"I am too sore enpierced with his shaft to soar with his light feathers."
"O God, I have an ill-divining soul!"
"And when I shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars."
"With a kiss, I die."
"Thus with a kiss, I would die a thousand deaths."
"Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly."
"I defy you, stars!"
"Then plainly know my heart’s dear love is set on the fair daughter of rich Capulet."
"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright."
"Oh, here will I set up my everlasting rest."
Quotes on Love and Time
"So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity."
"The wheel of fortune turns as we wish and towards love turns the hand."
"Time’s glory is to calm contending kings."
"The swiftest hour is time spent with thee."
"She is the perfect era of divine lovering."
"Now is the time that is seeds forth w־onna"
Discover over 100 timeless and romantic love quotes by William Shakespeare. Perfect for inspiration, special moments, or adding literary charm to your expressions of love.
