Famous Love Quotes

Love Quotes

Why not have a section for love quotes? We have a section on just about everything else. You never know when a special quote might come in handy, especially for that special love letter you have been writing to your sweetie.

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Poetic
Love Is....
Insightful
Words of Wisom
Inspiring
Heartbreak
Funny

Poetic

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.
-Ovid

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: Where "I" does not exist, nor "You", so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
-Excerpt from 100 Love Sonnets

All I ask of a woman is that she should feel gently towards me.
when my heart feels kindly towards her,
and there should be the soft, soft tremor as of unheard bells between us.
It is all I ask.
I am so tired of violent women lashing out and insisting on being loved, when there is no love in them.
-D.H. Lawrence

Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!
-Henri F. Amiel

Friendship is Love without his wings!
-Lord Byron

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
my love as deep;
The more I give to thee the more I have,
for both are infinite.
-William Shakespeare

For pity melts the mind to love.
-John Dryden

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
-John Dryden

Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
-John Dryden

'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-Baron Alfred Tennyson

Love conquers all.
-Virgil

Love, unconquerable,
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,
And mortal man, in his one day's dusk,
Trembles before your glory.
-Sophocles

One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
-Sophocles

Love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the creator. Love is freedom. Love lies beyond. Es muss sein!
-Milan Kundera

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
-William Congreve

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
-Pablo Neruda

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-Karen Sunde

Give all to love; obey thy heart.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
-Henry David Thoreau

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
-John Sheffield

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
-Spanish Proverb

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open.
-Emmet Fox

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
-William Shakespeare

Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
-William Shakespeare

But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
-William Shakespeare

Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
-William Blake

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
-Roy Croft

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
-John Keats

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Love Is....

Love is what separates us from the animals.
-Red Dwarf TV Show

Love is passion. Obsession. Someone you can't live without. Someone you fall head over heels for. Find someone you can love like crazy, and will love you the same way back. Listen to your heart. No sense in life without this. To make the journey without falling deeply in love, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try, because if you haven't tried, then you haven't lived.
-Meet Joe Balck Movie

Love is an equation: a me and a you derives a we.
-Ally McBeal

Love is an ocean of emotions, entirely surrounded by expenses.
-Lord Thomas Dewar

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
-François de la Rochefoucauld

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-Robert Frost

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
-Rabbi Julius Gordon

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-H. L. Mencken

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
-Iris Murdoch

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
-Peter Ustinov

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
-Erich Fromm

Love is the reason for it all.
-Dorothy Fields

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
-Margaret Cho

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
-Wayne Dyer

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
-Voltaire

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
-Octavio Paz

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
-Erich Segal

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Insightful

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
-Katharine Hepburn

It doesn't matter that I'm not in a relationship with anybody. Sometimes I feel like I'm being unfaithful to love itself.
-Ally McBeal

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.
-William Shakespeare

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
-Willa Cather

Hell is not to love anymore.
-Georges Bernanos

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Those in the grip of a strong drug---heroin, devil grass, true love---often find themselves trying to maintain a precarious balance between secrecy and ecstasy as they walk the tightrope of their lives.
-Stephen King

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day

It is a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.
-Unknown

Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
-W.H. Auden

Love--incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent--is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
-Gordon Willard Allport

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.
-François de la Rochefoucauld

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.
-Marcel Proust

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
-Honoré De Balzac

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
-W. Somerset Maugham

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-Agnes Repplier

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
-Anne-Sophie Swetchine

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
-Jessamyn West

We are most alive when we're in love.
-John Updike

There is no wisdom without love.
-N. Sri Ram

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.
-Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
-M.Scott Peck

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
-Anton Chekhov

Love is everything it's cracked up to be...It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
-Erica Jong

It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.
-Salma Hayek

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
-Ovid

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.
-Jeff Melvoin,

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-Mother Teresa

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Words of Wisdom

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
-Mohandas Gandhi

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The best proof of love is trust.
-Joyce Brothers

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
-Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz

The more you love, the more you can love and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.
-Robert Heinlein

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
-Latin Proverb

Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in its larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.
-Elbert Hubbard

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
-Bertrand Russell

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
-Anais Nin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Jeanne Moreau

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
-Spanish Proverb

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
-Alan Watts

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
-Ann Landers

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
-Mignon McLaughlin

Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.
-Mary O'Hara

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
-Ursula K. LeGuin

> The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.
-Martha Beck,

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
-Madonna

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
-Hugh Elliott

The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
-Oprah Winfrey

We can only learn to love by loving.
-Iris Murdoch

The first duty of love is to listen.
-Paul Tillich

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
-Ellen Goodman

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.
-J. E. Buchrose

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
-Ovid

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
-Bible Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

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Inspiring

We are all born for love...It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
-Benjamin Disraeli

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
-Indian Proverb

Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life; it hath not more ease, but less danger; it is more merry and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but is supported by all the strengths of love and charity; and those burdens are delightful. Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
-Jeremy Taylor

Any time not spent in love is wasted.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.
-The Bible 1 John 3:14

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Absence is to love as wind to fire; it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
-Umberto Eco

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
-John Ruskin

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.
-Don Snyder

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
-Ice T

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...
-Bell Hooks

In love, one and one are one.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
-David Viscott

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
-Carl Jung

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
-Nat King Cole

A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about.
-Cuban Proverb

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
-James M. Barrie

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Heartbreak

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.
-Madonna

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
-Marcel Proust

Do not be in a hurry; depend upon it, the right Man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years, meet with somebody more generally unexceptional than anyone you have yet known, who will love you as warmly as ever He did, and who will so completely attach you, that you will feel you never really loved before.
-Jane Austen

Nothing is to be compared to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one, & preferring another. That is a Punishment which you do not deserve.
-Jane Austen

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
-Maurice Maeterlinck

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
-Francois de Fenelon

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
-Martha Beck

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
-Hugh Elliott

'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-Baron Alfred Tennyson

Alas my love you do me wrong,
To cast me of discurteously;
And I have loved you so long,
Delighting in your company.
-Anonymous

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
-Benjamin Disraeli

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
-Pearl Buck

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.
-Britney Spears

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Funny

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.
-Bob Dylan

If you love something, set it free. if it comes back, it's yours. If it doesn't, hunt it down and kill it.
-Unknown

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-Matt Groening

Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty gestures go, it is one of the best.
-Woody Allen

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-Henny Youngman

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

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
-Alice Hoffman

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
-Denise Dobbs

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
-William Shakespeare

Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow.
-Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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