This file has quotes about love. Also see Love Poems, Courtship, Hugs, and Kisses.

Quotes

• Age does not protect you from love.
  But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
• The Aleuts had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. (Margaret Atwood)
• All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. (Julie Andrews)
• Although I cherish hearing the phrase, "I love you", I cherish more the deed that fills those words with life. (James T. Brown)
• Always tell someone how you feel about them;
  you will feel much better when they know.
• And then my soul saw you and it said "oh, there you are. I've been looking for you."
• And there is even a happiness that makes the heart afraid. (Thomas Hood)
• Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. (Rose Franken)
• As sure as the sunrise, eternal as the sea is my love for you.
• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; While loving someone deeply gives you courage. (Tao Tzu)
• The best lesson we can learn in life is how to love people and use things
  instead of loving things and using people.
• The best proof of love is trust. (Dr. Joyce Brothers)
• The best thing to hold onto in this world is each other.
• Between even the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, if they succeed in loving the distance between them it is possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
• But when two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or of bronze. (I Ching)
• The door to the human heart can only be opened from the inside.
• The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. (Agnes Repplier)
• Even when I can't find the right words...you always understand what I mean.
• Everyone you meet comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
• Falling in love is when you lay in his arms and wake up in your dreams.
• The first duty of love is to listen.
• For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. (Judy Garland)
• God must have spent a little more time on you.
• Great love and great achievements involve great risk.
• The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. (O.A. Battista)
• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. (Nan Fairbrother)
• He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. (Leo Tolstoy)
• A helping hand is showing a loving heart.
• The heart has its reasons that reason does not know. (Blaise Pascal)
• Hold sacred the enduring gift of love.
• A house is made of brick and stone;
  A home is made of love alone.
• I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name and where I shall be born again with a new face and untried heart. (Colette)
• I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine. (Song of Solomon)
• I believe if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps. (Benito Perez Galdos)
• I don't dream about you, because I can never fall asleep when I'm thinking about you!
• I don't mind the thorns if you're the rose.
• I don't need to be your first love.
  I just want to be your last.
• I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. (Javan)
• I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. (Lord Byron Letter to Annabella Milbanke, 1814)
• I have spread my dreams under your feet;
  Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. (W. B. Yeats)
• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved...the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. (Mary Ann Evans writing as George Eliot)
• I love being loved by you!
• I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! And if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
• I love you as much as chocolate itself!
• I love you in a place where there's no space or time.
• I love you more than yesterday, and less than tomorrow!
• I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
• I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. (Bill Watterson)
• I want to let you in on a little secret...I'm not who you think I am. In fact, my disguise is so thin, I'm surprised you haven't seen right through me. I'm the girl of your dreams masquerading as your best friend. (Chloe Sullivan in Smallville)
• I wish I could be perfect for you...
  Not that you've ever asked me to be, but my heart needs to give you such a gift, because I love you so much!
• I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. (Margaret Atwood)
• If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
• If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being. (Anzia Yezierska)
• If I had nine lives, I'd want to spend them all loving you.
• If I know what love is, it is because of you. (Herman Hesse)
• If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
• If love were a color, you would be the rainbow to me!
• If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. (Michel de Montaigne)
• If you say my eyes are beautiful it's because they're looking at you.
• In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
• In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. (Hans Nouwens)
• It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. (Agnes Repplier)
• It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. (John Bulwer)
• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is is essential is invisible to the eye.
• It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.
• It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. (Khalil Gibran)
• It may take a lifetime to find true love, but when you do, you will have an eternity to share it.
• Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow.
• Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
• Just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
• Last night I looked up at the stars and matched each one with a reason why I love you...I was doing great until I ran out of stars.
• Let love be the sweet elixir that awakens your spirit and moves your soul to dance.
• Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly but flooding the river.
• Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. (Rossiter Worthington Raymond)
• The logic of the heart is absurd. (Julie De Lespinasse)
• 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 Levinson)
• Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)
• Love builds bridges where there are none. (R. H. Delaney)
• Love can build a bridge between your heart and mine.
• Love comforts like sunshine after rain.
• Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
• Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
• Love doesn't make the world go round; but it makes the ride worthwhile.
• Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of you partner's hand, knowing they will be handled with care. (Carl S. Avery)
• Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. (Han Suyin)
• Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything. (Katherine Hepburn)
• The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay.
  Love isn't love until you give it away.
• Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. (Voltaire)
• Love is a circle, a wondrous chain, to be given and given and given again.
• Love is a friendship set to music (E. Joseph Cossman)
• Love is a game that two can play and both win. (Eva Gabor)
• Love is a great beautifier. (Louisa May Alcott)
• Love is a place with no name. If you have never been there, you have never truly been in love.
• Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
• Love is a thread that mends worn hearts.
• Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
• Love is agreeing with him completely when he needs you to agree with him completely, ant telling him the plain, unvarnished truth when he needs you to tell him the plain, unvarnished truth, and knowing when he needs which.
• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. (Peter Ustinov)
• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired (Robert Frost)
• Love is friendship set on fire.
• Love is like a butterfly
  it goes where it pleases
  and pleases where it goes.
• Love is metaphysical gravity. (R. Buckminster Fuller)
• Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. (Mark Overby)
• Love is not as simple as candlelight and roses. Love is day-to-day living, taking time, making time to be there, with open arms and a giving heart.
• Love is not measured by how many times you touch each other, but by how many times you reach each other. (Cathy Maurcy)
• Love is pulling together against all odds.
• Love is the beauty of the soul. (St. Augustine)
• Love is that condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your own.
• Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons. (Kahlil Gibran)
• Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
• Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image...otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
• Love is true when you don't see eye to eye, but can still walk hand in hand.
• Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
• Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the romance in a relationship, and find out you still care for that person.
• Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It's an active noun like 'struggle'. To love someone is to strife to accept that person exactly the way he or she if, right here and now. (Fred Rogers)
• Love isn't blind, it just doesn't tell all it sees.
• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the heart.
• Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild. (Alexis Delp)
• Love makes you twice as tall.
• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. (Zora Neale Hurston)
• Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I need it most. (Swedish proverb)
• Love puts a twinkle in your eye and a smile in your heart.
• Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.
• Love requires no map or chart, you only need an open heart.
• Love understands, and love waits.
• Love understands love, it needs no talk.
• The love we give away is the only love we keep.
• Love's gift cannot be given. It waits to be accepted. (Tagore)
• A loving thought is deeper than the night sky.
• A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. (Brendan Francis)
• A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. (George Jean Nathan)
• Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. (Song of Solomon 8:7)
• Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. (Josh Billings)
• The measure of love is when you love without measure.
• The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. (Stephen King)
• The most wonderful thing in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This...is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. (Sir Hugh Walpoe)
• My love for you is like a circle, it has no end.
• Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart. (Charles Dickens)
• No door is too difficult for the key of love to open.
• No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
• Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. (Zelda Fitzgerald)
• Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.
• Old flames don't hold a candle to you.
• On my horizon you'll always be the star.
• One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
• Our souls have touched, my love. My only solace is--that if you become lost, a part of me will be lost with you. (Tom Brinck)
• People think your soul mate is your perfect fit. And that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
• People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. (Douglas Yates)
• Real love does not destroy you...it constructs you.
• Real love is not blind. Real love sees everything and still continues to love.
• Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! (Leo Buscaglia)
• Respect is love in plain clothes.
• The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. (Edward Thomas)
• So many of my smiles begin with you!
• Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking. (Vincent McNabb)
• Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.
• 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 supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. (Victor Hugo)
• There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. (George Sand)
• There's a special place within my heart that only you can fill.
  For you had my love right from the start and I know you always will.
• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. (David Viscott)
• To love someone means to see him as God intended him. (Feodor Dostoevsky)
• And think not that you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course. (Gibran)
• Those things we hold in our hands are as large as that which we can grasp, but that which we hold in our hearts is ever increasing, ever expanding and greater than ever. It is larger than the world itself. That which we hold in our hearts is love! (Ken Lewis)
• Thoughts of you always make me smile.
• Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. (Dinah Shore)
• True love can walk through fire without blinking.
• True love can't be found where it doesn't truly exist, and it can't be hidden where it truly does.
• True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. (Jason Jordan)
• True love doesn't have a happy ending...True love doesn't end!
• True love is born of songs and promises, and the kind of music only two hearts can hear. (Flavia)
• True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall--but you are there to catch them.
• True love is when you're still dancing, long after the music has stopped.
• The true measure of love is when we believe that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us. (Goethe)
• The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands. (Alexander Penney)
• Until the twelfth of never i'll still be loving you.
• We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive, where every sense is heightened and every emotion magnified. Our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour or an afternoon, but that doesn't diminish its value, because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives. (from the movie The Mirror Has Two Faces)
• We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
• We can only learn to love by loving. (Iris Murdoch)
• We do not remember days. We remember moments.
• We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. (Jacques Maritain)
• We dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. (Bill Watterson)
• We may be blinded by our own perceived flaws, but those who love us have clearer vision. (Sarah Ban Breathnach)
• What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. (George Levinger)
• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. (Emily Bronte)
• When I count my blessings, I count you twice.
• When I look at you, I see sunshine looking back at me.
• When I'm with you...I can be me.
• When there's no getting over that rainbow; when my smallest of dreams won't come true. I can take all the madness the world has to give, but I won't last a day without you!
• When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or of bronze. (I Ching)
• When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
• When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Where there is great love, there are great miracles.
• Whichever way I go, I come back to the place you are.
• You and I forever is my one wish upon a star.
• You are always in my thoughts!
• You are the calm at the center of my storm.
• You become responsible forever for what you have tamed. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
• You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
• You don't need someone to complete you. You need someone to accept you completely.
• You have given me a gift such as I never even dreamt of finding in this life. (Franz Kafka)
• You helped me hear the music of my heart.
• You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That's your common sense leaving your body.
• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. (Dr. Seuss)
• You know you're really in love when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
• You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.
• You love him if, even when you're not thinking about him, you're thinking about him.
• You never lose by loving, you always lose by holding back.
• You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. (Maya Angelou)
• You say it best when you say nothing at all.
• You're nothing short of my everything. (Ralph Block)
• Your soul-mate is the one who brings out the best in you--not perfect but always perfect for you.