Love is eternal, universal—what poets, writers, and dreamers have always fallen in love with. Whether you’re fresh into a new relationship, standing up for a lifelong commitment, or simply dreaming of that love to be, the right words can really get it across. Here are 100 beautiful love quotes to set your heart and soul on fire:.
1. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
2. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft
3. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
4. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
5. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert A. Heinlein
6. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
7. “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
8. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” — Eden Ahbez
9. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
10. “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
11. “You are the source of my joy, the center of my world, and the whole of my heart.” — Unknown
12. “I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” — Angelita Lim
13. “Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.” — Inconnu
14. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” — Nicholas Sparks
15. “Love is not about how many days, weeks, or months you’ve been together, it’s all about how much you love each other every day.” — Unknown
16. “You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.” — Jane Austen
17. “I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer.” — Unknown
18. “I never want to stop making memories with you.” — Pierre Jeanty
19. “I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
20. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
21. “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” — Jane Austen
22. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” — Khalil Gibran
23. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
24. “Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell
25. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse
26. “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” — Valerie Lombardo
27. “My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.” — Boris Kodjoe
28. “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — Arthur Conan Doyle
29. “Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” — Rosemonde Gerard
30. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” — Pablo Picasso
31. “Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth.” — Eleanor Di Guillo
32. “I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.” — Nicholas Sparks
33. “You are, and always have been, my dream.” — Nicholas Sparks
34. “I am who I am because of you.” — Nicholas Sparks
35. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” — Nicholas Sparks
36. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” — Andre Breton
37. “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” — Marilyn Monroe
38. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” — Oscar Wilde
39. “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
40. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand
41. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” — Helen Keller
42. “I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Paulo Coelho
43. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” — Sophocles
44. “True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” — Honore de Balzac
45. “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” — Sam Keen
46. “Love is a better teacher than duty.” — Albert Einstein
47. “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” — Carl Sagan
48. “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” — T. Tolis
49. “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” — David Wilkerson
50. “Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” — Rabindranath Tagore
51. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
52. “Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
53. “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” — Maya Angelou
54. “Love is the only gold.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
55. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” — John Lennon
56. “Love is all you need.” — The Beatles
57. “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” — Ben Hecht
58. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” — Nikki Giovanni
59. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” — Zora Neale Hurston
60. “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” — Rumi
61. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
62. “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.” — E.E. Cummings
63. “The giving of love is an education in itself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
64. “Love cures people — both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” — Karl A. Menninger
65. “Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” — Rabindranath Tagore
66. “Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me.” — Beyoncé
67. “Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.” — Mahatma Gandhi
68. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” — Rumi
69. “The best proof of love is trust.” — Joyce Brothers
70. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin
71. “Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.” — Khalil Gibran
72. “Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.” — Felix Adler
73. “Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.” — Louisa May Alcott
74. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” — Voltaire
75. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” — William Shakespeare
76. “Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.” — Ray Bradbury
77. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” — Pablo Picasso
78. “Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.” — Tom Wolfe
79. “Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.” — Viktor Frankl
80. “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” — David Wilkerson
81. “Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.” — Plato
82. “Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.” — Rabindranath Tagore
83. “Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost
84. “Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” — H.L. Mencken
85. “Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.” — Samuel Johnson
86. “Love is the whole and more than all.” — E.E. Cummings
87. “Love is the beauty of the soul.” — Saint Augustine
88. “Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.” — Alphonse de Lamartine
89. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” — Eva Gabor
90. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
91. “Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.” — Richard Garnett
92. “Love is the poetry of the senses.” — Honore de Balzac
93. “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
94. “Love is the crowning grace of humanity.” — Petrarch
95. “Love is the eternal flame that lights up our way.” — Deborah Day
96. “Love is the music of the soul.” — John Paul Warren
97. “Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert A. Heinlein
98. “Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.” — Jack Hyles
99. “Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.” — Khalil Gibran
100. “Love is the only thing that can be divided without being diminished.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Conclusion
These quotes remind us of the fact that love is an action, a promise, and even a force that can transform lives in the most wonderful ways. Let them be that charge towards the respect and care for your loved one, to give voice to what your heart is dying to say, and embrace the deep happiness of love.
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