Famous Love Quotes



We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Victor Hugo

Love is not about finding someone to complete you; it's about finding someone to complement you and together create a beautiful and fulfilling life.

As the first snow falls gently outside, covering the world in a white blanket, the season of reflection begins. Christmas is the moment when we leave behind the hustle and bustle of everyday life, embrace the warmth of community, and feel the power of love. May this festive time be filled with heartfelt moments for you and your loved ones.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Alfred Adler

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Washington Irving

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Benjamin Franklin

To love beauty is to see light.

Victor Hugo

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Walter Benjamin

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

Walt Whitman

Love is a flame that burns bright even in the darkest of times, reminding us of the resilience of the human spirit.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Euripides

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

Michelangelo

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.

George Gordon Byron

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through

Simone Weil

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

Marcel Proust

Love is not about possession; it's about partnership. It's about standing side by side, supporting and uplifting each other in the journey of life.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

Torquato Tasso

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Joseph Joubert

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Simone Weil

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

Emma Goldman

Love is a mirror that reflects our inner beauty, reminding us of our worthiness and showing us the best version of ourselves.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Michel de Montaigne

Love is when you don’t have to be with another person to touch their heart!

Torquato Tasso

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Euripides

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Thomas Jefferson

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept

Robert Browning

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi

Age is a reflection of the love and laughter we've shared, the tears we've shed, and the obstacles we've overcome.

Love is a journey that takes us beyond ourselves, teaching us the true meaning of compassion, empathy, and selflessness.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Benjamin Franklin

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Miguel de Cervantes

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson

Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

William Blake

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Walt Whitman

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

Karl Philipp Moritz

Friendship is the foundation of love, kindness, and understanding.

Love is the music that fills our souls, resonating with the rhythm of our hearts and bringing harmony to our lives.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

William Shakespeare

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Henry Ward Beecher

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Pietro Aretino

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

William Blake

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

Gustav Mahler

A pet's love is a reminder to be present, to show affection, and to cherish the moments we have.

Love is not about possession or control; it's about nurturing each other's growth and creating a space for mutual flourishing

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They do not love, that do not show their love.

William Shakespeare

Motherhood All love begins and ends there.

Robert Browning

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Christopher Marlowe

To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them – that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

Emma Goldman

Pets teach us about unconditional love and acceptance.

Love is not about finding someone to complete us, but about finding someone who inspires us to become the best version of ourselves.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Robert Browning

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Oscar Wilde

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Rabindranath Tagore

The love and loyalty of a pet are unmatched.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

William Shakespeare

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Stendhal

After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Bertha von Suttner

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

A cat's love is like a gentle touch that soothes the soul and heals the heart.

As the snowflakes gently fall and the world transforms into a serene winter wonderland, Christmas arrives like a beautiful melody, reminding us to cherish the bonds that unite us. It's a time to wrap ourselves in the warmth of togetherness, reminisce about cherished memories, and revel in the joy of giving. May this festive season fill your heart with love, peace, and endless happiness.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Oscar Wilde

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Voltaire

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Oscar Wilde

Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Stendhal

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Franz Kafka

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

Edith Stein

A dog's love is a constant source of reassurance, reminding us that we are never alone.

When the glow of Christmas lights breaks through the darkness and candles cast a soft glow in our eyes, we feel the magic of this special time. Christmas is the moment when we share stories of years gone by, embrace in each other's arms, and enjoy the silence of the present. May your heart be filled with love and peace during this festive season.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

William Shakespeare

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Ellen Key

I love Humanity but I hate humans.

Albert Einstein

Dogs are a reflection of our own capacity to love and be loved unconditionally.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Edward Gibbon

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Franz Kafka

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children – these are the only investments that never fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Albert Einstein

A dog's presence fills our lives with love, laughter, and an abundance of joy.

As the year comes to an end, a new one begins. May it be filled with love, happiness, and positive surprises.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

William Shakespeare

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

D. H. Lawrence

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

Love is the magic that turns ordinary moments into extraordinary memorie"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Sigmund Freud

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Jane Austen

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

D. H. Lawrence

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Jean de La Fontaine

Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

Victor Hugo

Love is trembling happiness.

Khalil Gibran

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

Samuel Daniel

Love is the most powerful force in the universe.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Khalil Gibran

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

William Penn

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

Victor Hugo

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Miguel de Unamuno

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Samuel Johnson

Love is a language spoken by the soul.

I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.

Albert Einstein

In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Newman

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.

Sigmund Freud

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Samuel Johnson

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Victor Hugo

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In the realm of love, the heart knows no boundaries.

3 ?>

Let's stay in touch!

Subscribe to our Quote of the Day and get a great quote delivered to your inbox every day!

Free, no spam or ads. Unsubscribe at any time!

Per Facebook anmelden!


Share this image Close image

Follow us on Social Media:

Instagram Facebook Pinterest TwitterX
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Read More
OK