I have gathered hundreds of love quotes and sayings. To keep it simple I have divided them into different categories.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
~Robert Frost
Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love, though I’d stepped in it a few times.
~Rita Rudner, Falling in love quotes
True love isn’t Romeo and Juliet, it’s grandma and grandpa who grew old together.
~Unknown Author, true love quotes
You and I will always be unfinished business.
Unknown Author, cute love sayings
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
Unknown Author, funny love quotes and sayings
I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
~W. H. Auden, I love you quotes and sayings
Love is the hearts immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.
~Henry Van Dyke, Love is Quotes
Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are part of life’s heritage.
~Maria Montessori, Love and Life Quotes
Where there is love, there is pain.
~Spanish Proverb, love hurts quotes
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we deeply love becomes a part of us.
~Helen Keller, lost love quotes
Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.
~ Christina Westover, unrequited love quotes and sayings
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
~Mother Teresa, inspirational love quotes and sayings
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
~Pearl Bailey, short love quotes
I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.
~Missy Altijd, broken heart quotes
I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
~Maya Angelou, self love quotes
A kiss is a rosey dot over the “i” of loving.
~Cyrano de Bergerac
Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
~Dale Evans
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
~Judy Garland
We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.
~Mira Sorvino
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.
~H.L. Mencken
Love makes time pass, time makes love pass.
~French proverb
What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in anothers body, heart and mind, the responsibility of flattering, in our place, the self of which we are not very certain.
~Paul Geraldly
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 G. Jung
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so.
~John Donne
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
~Sam Goldwyn
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
~John Ruskin
The greater love is a mothers; then a dogs; then a sweethearts.
~Polish proverb
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
~Charles Caleb Colton
No One can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love the – which isn’t easy.
~John Ruskin
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. and the one thing we never give enough of is love.
~Henry Miller
As soon as you can not keep anything from a woman, you love her.
~Paul Geraldy
You don’t love a woman for what she says, but love what she says because you love her.
~Andre Maurois
In the first passions, women love the lover; in the others, they love love.
~La Rochefoucauld
Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.
~Oscar Wilde
love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.
~Mirabeau
Greater is he who acts from love than from fear.
~Simeon Ben Elezar
Take spring when it comes, and rejoice. Take happiness when it comes, and rejoice. Take love when it comes, and rejoice.
~Carl Ewald
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
~Francois de la rochefoucauld
We forgive so long as we love.
~Francois de la rochefoucauld
All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
~Julie Andrews
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
We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
~Marianne Williamson
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
~Margaret Mead
Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. It’s quite hopeless.
~Alice Thomas Ellis
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love.
~Jean De La Bruyere
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
~Pearl Buck
Love at first sight is easy to understand. It’s when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle.
~Sam Levenson
The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
~Leo Buscaglia
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
~Robert Frost
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone. Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
~Kahlil Gibran
Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.”
~Erich Fromm
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity – love. And the story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
~Helen Hayes
The one who loves the least controls the relationship.
~Robert Anthony
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplainable peace.
~Anne Shaw
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the opposite sex what he lacks in himself.
~G. Stanley Hall
I no longer cared about survival – I merely loved.
~Loren Eisley
Holding hands is a promise to one another that, for just a moment, the two of you don’t have to face the world alone.
~Unknown Author
Anything will give up it’s secrets if you love it enough.
~George Washington Carver
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
~G.K. Chesterton
We probably have more love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.
~Eric Hoffer
There is no way under the sun of making a man worthy of love, except by loving him.
~Thomas Merton
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.
~Suzanne Necker
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love.
~Bishop Westcott
The chains of love are never so blinding as when their links are made of gold.
~Royal Tyler
There is the land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.
~Thornton Wilder
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
~Elizabeth Ashley
I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.
~Lisa Kleypas
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