Here are 50 great love quotes. Love is the emotion that we all seek. It’s the thing that creates strong bonds and makes life a lot more enjoyable. People will do some pretty crazy things for love. Some people will go to war over it. Some will die for it. Whether it’s the love for another person or the love for your country, there’s no mistaking that it’s a very powerful emotion. Another source for quotes about love is in song lyrics from well-known love songs. Read these quotes and be reminded of just how precious love really is.
- “Is there more? More than Love and Death? Then tell me its name!” by Emily Dickinson
- “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” by Robert Frost
- “It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Will you love me in December as you do in May?” by James J. Walker
- “A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.” by Stendhal
- “I love her and that’s the beginning of everything.” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” by Thomas Carlyle
- “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” by Robert Heinlein
- “One does not fall ‘in’ or ‘out’ of love. One grows in love.” by Leo Buscaglia
- “Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.” by Rita Rudner
- “In love there are two things: bodies and words.” by Joyce Carol Oates
- “Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” by H.L. Menchen
- “Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.” by Henry David Thoreau
- “Love is above all the gift of oneself.” by Jean Anouilh
- “Soul meets soul on lover’s lips.” by Percy Shelly
- “You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.” by Buddha
- “The more I think about I, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.” by Vincent van Gogh
- “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” by Willa Cather
- “But there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.” by Thomas Moore
- “Love is the river of life in the world.” by Henry Ward Beecher
- “He kissed me and now I am someone else.” by Gabriela Mistral
- “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” by Emily Bronte
- “It was they kiss, love, that made me immortal.” by Margaret Witter Fuller
- “Love endures only when lovers love many things together and not merely each other.” by Walter Lippmann
- “Real love begins when nothing is expected in return.” by Antoine de Saint Exupery
- “One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man’s step when he climbs the stairs.” by Colette
- “Love that’s wise will not say all it means.” by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “If you want to be loved, love and be lovable.” by Benjamin Franklin
- “The first duty of love is to listen.” by Paul Tillich
- “There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.” by Charles Morgan
- “Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.” by George Herbert
- “I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.” by Dorothy L. Sayers
- “At one glance I love you with a thousand hearts.” by Mihri Hatun
- “Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” by Leo Tolstoy
- “The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” by G. K. Chesterton
- “Where there is love, there is life.” Mahatma Gandhi
- “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken… But the only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is hell.” by C. S. Lewis
- “There is no questions for which you are not the answer.” by Bonnie Zucker Goldsmith
- “What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” by Sinclair Lewis
- “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” by Peter Ustinov
- “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” by Sophacles
- “Familiar acts are beautiful through love.” by Percy Shelley
- “We like someone because. We love someone although.” by Henri De Montherlant
- “Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.” by Don Snyder
- “Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.” by Margaret Fuller
- “I fell in love with what I expected you to be – I love what I’ve discovered you are.” by Dale F. Mead
- “Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.” by George Sand
- “If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.” by Anzia Yezierska
- “In love, one and one are one.” by Jean-Paul Sartre