199 Love Quotes


199 Love Quotes Collection -
Collection of romantic love quotes from famous authors, & other romantic sources. These love quotes are simply for showing your love. Scroll down to see the romantic love quotes.
 
 
  1. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. ~ Helen Rowland
  2. Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face. ~ National Lampoon
  3. Every man loves two women; one is the creation of his imagination, and the other is not yet born. ~ Khalil Gibran
  4. Even when I glimpse you for a moment, my tongue is stilled as speech deserts me, while a delicate fire is beneath my skin. ~ Sappho
  5. Don't spend your life with someone you can live with - spend it with someone you can't live without. ~ Anon
  6. Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ~ Leo Buscaglia
  7. How can you tell the sun not to shine, when clouds exist. How can you ask leaves not to fall when wind exists. How can you tell me not to fall in love when you exist. ~ Unknown
  8. He is not a lover who does not love forever. ~ Euripides
  9. Happiness is being married to your best friend. ~ Anon
  10. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. ~ Robert Browning
  11. Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling love. ~ Albert Einstein
  12. Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend". ~ Anon
  13. From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love. ~ Hesiod
  14. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile. ~ Unknown
  18. Don't compare our love to the flowers that only bloom on summer, instead, compare it to the river that flows forever. ~ Unknown
  19. Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. ~ Yogi Desai
  20. Destiny decides who you meet in life but its only your heart that can decide who gets to stay in your life. ~ Unknown
  21. A ring is round, it turns forever and that's how long we'll be together! ~ Unknown
  22. A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. ~ Clarence Thomas
  23. A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. ~ Anonymous
  24. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~ Ingrid Bergman
  25. A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. ~ Mistinguett
  26. A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. ~ Bil Keane
  27. You're nothing short of my everything. ~ Ralph Block
  28. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
  29. But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. ~ William Shakespeare
  30. Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. ~ Anonymous
  31. Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything. ~ E E cummings
  32. Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~ Unknown
  33. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~ Rose Franken
  34. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  35. And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering: and I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was love. ~ Saint John of the Cross
  36. All my soul follows you, love encircles you and I live in being yours. ~ Robert Browning
    All I need is my one star in the sky to wish for you everday. ~ Anon
  37. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~ Henry Drummond
  38. 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. ~ Unknown
  39. You know it's love when you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. ~ Unknown
    You know it's love when the tiny details about another person, ones that are insignificant to most people, seem fascinating and incredible to you. ~ Anon
  40. You know it's love when forever is not long enough. ~ Unknown
  41. You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. ~ Jean Zheng
  42. You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~ Jonathan Carroll
  43. You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ~ Anon
  44. You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen
  45. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~ Wayne Dyer
  46. You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. ~ Amy Carmichael
  47. You are just like a Rose, a lesson of beauty, to whom a memory, but forever remembered ~ A. Neilen
  48. I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. ~ Unknown
  49. I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserved it. ~ Kyle Schmidt
  50. I have never regretted falling in love with anyone. I have lived and learned from everyone I know, and loved. I would not change a thing. ~ Nancy Williams
  51. I give you all my love because I truly love you, but I can't give you my soul and my heart because you'll just break it apart. ~ Unknown
  52. I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~ Unknown
  53. I don't wish to be everything to everyone rather i would like to be something to someone. ~ Unknown
  54. I don't regret the things I have done or the things I have chosen not to do because what ever I've done, I must have done something right because I ended up with you. ~ Unknown
  55. I don't need to be wanted, I want to be needed. ~ Unknown
  56. I do not want to make reasons for you to stay, only reasons for you to return. ~ Jonivan
  57. I desire nothing more than to be in your heart until forever dies. ~ Unknown
  58. Words sound stupid -- look into my eyes ~ Anonymous
  59. With every kiss, I feel closer to you. So close in fact, I shall kiss you again. ~ Unknown
  60. Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. ~ Unknown
  61. Who, being loved, is poor? ~ Oscar Wilde
  62. Where there is no love put love, and you will find love. ~ A. Sachs
  63. When I first met you I was afraid to like you, now that I like you I'm afraid to love you, now that I love you I'm afraid to lose you. ~ Unknown
  64. Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same. ~ Emily Bronte
  65. What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~ Unknown
  66. We've grown to be one soul - two parts; our lives so intertwined that when some passion stirs your heart, I feel the quake in mine. ~ Gloria Gaither
  67. We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way. ~ Marlin Finch Lupus
  68. We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. ~ Agnes Repplier
  69. We cannot beg someone to stay if they want to leave and be with someone else. We have to admit that love doesn't give us the license to own a person. This is what love means...sacrifice. ~ Unknown
  70. Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. ~ Fredrich Halm
  71. True love stories never have endings. ~ Unknown
  72. To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine
  73. To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray
  74. Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
  75. Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~ Rabbi J. Gordon
  76. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. ~ Lynda Barry
  77. Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ~ Leo Buscaglia
  78. To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray
  79. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ~ David Viscott
  80. To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. ~ Mark Twain
  81. To be in Love is the best way to see the life at it's best! ~ Unknown
  82. To be able to say how much love, is love but little. ~ Petrarch
  83. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. ~ Henry Van Dyke
  84. There's only one place in the world I call home, and it's because you're there. ~ Unknown
  85. There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
  86. There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving. ~ Aldous Huxley
  87. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
  88. There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~ Henry David Thoreau
  89. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
  90. The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work. ~ Unknown
  91. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ~ G. K. Chesterton
  92. The virtue of true love is not finding the perfect person, but loving the imperfect person perfectly. ~ Unknown
  93. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
  94. The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ~ Anais Nin
  95. The less we look with our eyes, the more we will see with our hearts. ~ Lyndsey Albrecht
  96. The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
  97. The heart is on the left but always right. ~ Unknown
  98. 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
  99. The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. ~ Unknown
  100. That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~ William WordsWorth
  101. Sometimes somebody says something really small and it just fits into this empty place in your heart. ~ Unknown
  102. Sometimes it's hard to love someone because you're so afraid of losing them. ~ Jean Zheng
  103. Sometimes I wonder if life is really worth it, then I look at your smile and I know it is. ~ Anon
  104. Someone has stolen my heart and you are the highest on my list of suspects. ~ Unknown
  105. Some joys are better expressed in silence as a smile holds more meaning than words. I was asked if i enjoy having you in my life..I just smiled! ~ Unknown
  106. Shake hands and rancor will disappear. Give presents to each other and love each other and enmity will disappear. ~ Muhammad (PBUH)
  107. Romance is like chess-one false move and you're mated. ~ Unknown
  108. Perhaps LOVE is the process of me leading you gently back to yourself. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  109. People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~ Douglas Yates
  110. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. ~ John Harrigan
  111. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ~ Sophocles
  112. One must learn to love and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul... ~ D. H. Lawrence
  113. One does not fall 'in' or 'out' of love. One grows in love. ~ Leo Buscaglia
  114. One day you will ask me which is more important? my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. ~ Khalil Gibran
  115. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~ Charles M. Schulz
    Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them. ~ Unknown
  116. Never underestimate the amazing power of love to change hearts and mindsets. Love can even give fresh inspiration to tackle what seems to be impossible. ~ Unknown
  117. Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ~ Alan Watts
  118. Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. ~ William Penn
  119. More than kisses, letters mingle souls. ~ John Donne
  120. Loving you is like breathing, how can I stop. ~ Unknown
  121. Love leads to devotion and devotion is the key to success. ~ Anonymous
  122. Love knows not its depth till the hour of separation. ~ Khalil Gibran
  123. Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~ Jean Anouilh
  124. Love is when you look into someone's eyes, and see everything you need. ~ Unknown
  125. Love is when you give 60% and take 40%. ~ Unknown
  126. Love is trembling happiness. ~ Khalil Gibran
  127. Love is timeless, it is the memory of past, the happiness of today and the promise of tomorrow. ~ Unknown
  128. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ~ H. L. Mencken
  129. Love is the only disease that makes you feel better. ~ Sam Shepard
  130. Love is the fairest flower that blooms in God's Garden. ~ Anon
  131. Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
  132. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. ~ Henry Van Dyke
  133. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
  134. That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~ William WordsWorth
  135. In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ~ Rich Cannarella
  136. When I first met you I was afraid to like you, now that I like you I'm afraid to love you, now that I love you I'm afraid to lose you. ~ Unknown
  137. People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~ Douglas Yates
  138. I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. ~ Unknown
  139. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese
  140. Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. ~ Toni Morrison
  141. Love is not love until love's vulnerable. ~ Theodore Roethke
  142. Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. ~ William Shakespeare
  143. Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. ~ Bette Davis
  144. Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~ Rabbi J. Gordon
  145. Love is not about who you live with.. its about who you can't live without. ~ Aesop
  146. Love is more easily demonstrated than defined. ~ Anon
  147. Love is like standing in wet cement , the longer you stay the harder to leave and u can never leave without leaving your marks behind. ~ Unknown
  148. Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. ~ Unknown
  149. Love is like a violin, the music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. ~ Unknown
  150. Love is like a tranquil breeze that sweeps over my soul making me whole. ~ Unknown
  151. Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours....And reflecting each other's love you see infinity. ~ Leo Buscaglia
  152. Love is like a bus, if you miss it, don't worry, you'll catch another one. ~ Unknown
  153. Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts! ~ Unknown
  154. Love is giving and sometimes giving means giving in. ~ William Oak
  155. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ~ Alexander Smith
  156. Love is being stupid together. ~ J. Paul Getty
  157. Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. ~ Robert Frost
  158. Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. ~ Anon
  159. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ Peter Ustinov
  160. Love is a trick of the heart to fool the mind. ~ Unknown
  161. Love is a science; It is all about passionate chemistry, dimensionless physics with a bit of biology thrown in. ~ Unknown
  162. Love is a little haven of refuge from the world. ~ Bertrand Russell
  163. Love is a flower and you its only seed. ~ Amanda McBroom
  164. Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Franklin P. Jones
  165. Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  166. Love creates an 'us' without destroying a 'me'. ~ Leo Buscaglia
  167. Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ~ Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
  168. Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. ~ William Shakespeare
  169. Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~ Unknown
  170. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~ Oprah Winfrey
  171. Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ~ David Grayson
  172. Living without you takes a lot of getting used to; you're a hard habit to break. ~ Unknown
  173. Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. ~ Victor Hugo
  174. Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. ~ William Shakespeare
  175. Kiss: A contraction of the mouth due to an enlargement of the heart. ~ Anon
  176. Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you. ~ Anon
  177. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ~ Oscar Wilde
  178. Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ~ Unknown
  179. It is not that i'm afraid to die, it is that if i die who will love you as i do. ~ Unknown
  180. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
  181. It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. ~ Mother Teresa
  182. It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all ~ Samuel Butler
  183. Is that love i see in your eyes, or merely a reflection of mine? ~ Unknown
  184. Is not this the true romantic feeling--not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you? ~ Thomas Wolfe
  185. In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ~ Rich Cannarella
  186. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
  187. In our life there is a single color, as on an artist`s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. ~ Marc Chagall
  188. In love there are two things : bodies and words. ~ Alan Watts
  189. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.' ~ Erich Fromm
  190. If you truely love something, let it go, it'll come back if and when the time is right. ~ Katie Schrimsher
  191. 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
  192. If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. ~ Alice James
  193. If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. ~ Emmet Fox
  194. If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. ~ Oscar Wilde
  195. If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. ~ Unknown
  196. If The Only Possible Way We Can Be Together Is In My Dreams...Then I'll Sleep Forever. ~ Unknown
  197. If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest. ~ Unknown
  198. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~ Unknown
  199. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. ~ Lynda Barry