Love Quotes

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

- Anais Nin

"He is not a lover who does not love forever."

- Euripides

"To love is to burn, to be on fire."

- Jane Austen

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

- James Baldwin

"In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing."

- Jack Kornfield

"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime."

- Bette Davis

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."

- C.S. Lewis

"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused."

- Paulo Coelho

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

- Pablo Neruda

"Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears."

- Ovid

"Love is not love until love’s vulnerable."

- Theodore Roethke

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."

- Pablo Neruda

"Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it."

- Nicholas Sparks

"Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat."

- Ben Hecht

"I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone."

- J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of The Rings"

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."

- Elinor Glyn

"Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes."

- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

"Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person."

- James Thurber

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."

- Sophocles

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you."

- William Arthur Ward

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."

- Pablo Coelho

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

- Andre Gide

"This has been my life; I found it worth living."

- Bertrand Russell

"We must be our own before we can be another’s."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

- Confucius

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

- Rumi

"Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you."

- Tom Freston

"Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald