Love is a universal language that has inspired countless writers, poets, and thinkers throughout history. Whether it’s romantic, platonic, or self-love, the power of love can move mountains, heal wounds, and light up our lives. Here are 100 famous love quotes to warm your heart and inspire your soul.
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
- “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Love is not about how many days, months, or years you’ve been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.” – Unknown
- “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Nat King Cole
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
- “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller
- “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” – Andre Breton
- “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
- “We are most alive when we’re in love.” – John Updike
- “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
- “To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna
- “Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
- “Love recognizes no barriers.” – Maya Angelou
- “There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand
- “You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry someone you cannot live without.” – Unknown
- “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire
- “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” – Rumi
- “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
- “Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” – Osho
- “Love is a better teacher than duty.” – Albert Einstein
- “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “The best proof of love is trust.” – Joyce Brothers
- “Love is like the wind; you can’t see it, but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” – Rumi
- “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “You call it madness, but I call it love.” – Don Byas
- “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” – Albert Ellis
- “Love isn’t something you find. It’s something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
- “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
- “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” – Henry Miller
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
- “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost
- “Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” – Karl Menninger
- “We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch
- “Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Love is a better master than duty.” – Albert Einstein
- “Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin
- “Love is not something you feel. It is something you do.” – David Wilkerson
- “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Mencken
- “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” – John Lennon
- “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
- “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” – G.K. Chesterton
- “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Love brings to life whatever is dead around us.” – Franz Rosenzweig
- “The giving of love is an education in itself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” – Jane Austen
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
- “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” – David Wilkerson
- “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” – Lord Byron
- “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” – Ben Hecht
- “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “It is love alone that gives worth to all things.” – Teresa of Ávila
- “If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare
- “Love is not what you say. Love is what you do.” – Unknown
- “Love is the beauty of the soul.” – Saint Augustine
- “Love is the poetry of the senses.” – Honoré de Balzac
- “Love is an act of endless forgiveness.” – Peter Ustinov
- “To be loved, be lovable.” – Ovid
- “There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” – Bryant H. McGill
- “Love is the strongest force the world possesses.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Love knows no distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.” – Gilbert Parker
- “Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.” – Plato
- “Love is the emblem of eternity.” – Madame de Stael
- “Love conquers all.” – Virgil
- “Love is not a matter of counting the years but making the years count.” – Michelle Amand
- “Love is the light that guides us through the darkness.” – Unknown
- “Love should be an adventure.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
- “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
- “Love is the great miracle cure.” – Louise Hay
- “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect; you love them despite their imperfections.” – Unknown
- “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor
- “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “Love is a promise; love is a souvenir.” – John Lennon
- “When love is not madness, it is not love.” – Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- “Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” – H.L. Mencken
- “Love is space and time measured by the heart.” – Marcel Proust
- “Love is the answer, and you know that for sure.” – John Lennon
- “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” – William Shakespeare
- “Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.” – Katharine Lee Bates
- “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
- “Love is a better teacher than duty.” – Albert Einstein
- “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” – Janos Arany
- “Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” – Osho
- “We love the things we love for what they are.” – Robert Frost
- “To love another person is to see the face of God.” – Victor Hugo
- “Love is a sacred reserve of energy.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- “Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy.” – Unknown
- “Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.” – Euripides
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
- “True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love is a timeless force that binds us all. These quotes remind us of love’s power to transform, inspire, and connect us to one another. Let them serve as a gentle reminder to cherish and celebrate the love in your life every day.