40 of Our Favorite Quotes About Love
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1 of 40“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved.”
– Victor Hugo
2 of 41“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3 of 41“I love you directly without problems or pride: / I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love…”
– Pablo Neruda, translated by Mark Eisner, One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
4 of 41“Personally, I love a great love story.”
– Meghan Markle
5 of 41“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
– Marilyn Monroe
6 of 41“When one sees something especially wonderful, it’s always nice to have someone to share it with.”
– Mary Anne Schwalbe
7 of 41“When one loves, one does not calculate.”
РSaint Th̩r̬se of Lisieux
8 of 41“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
– Sophocles
9 of 41“When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
10 of 41“She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies; / And all that’s best of dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes…”
– Lord Byron, “She Walks in Beauty”
11 of 41“But true love is a durable fire / In the mind ever burning; / Never sick, never old, never dead, / From itself never turning.”
– Sir Walter Ralegh, “Walsinghame”
12 of 41“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.”
– Will Ferrell
13 of 41“‘Love’ is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
14 of 41“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning
15 of 41“About you there is nothing I wouldn’t want to know / With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler…”
– Peter Gizzi, “Lines Depicting Simple Happiness”
16 of 41“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.”
– Pearl Bailey
17 of 41“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
18 of 41“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
– Nicole Krauss
19 of 41“There is a strong wall about me to protect me: / It is built of the words you have said to me…”
– Mary Carolyn Davies, “Love Song”
20 of 41“Love is a great beautifier.”
– Louisa May Alcott
21 of 41“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
22 of 41“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched…but are felt in the heart.”
– Helen Keller
23 of 41“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.”
– William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
24 of 41“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
– Joan Crawford
25 of 41“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
26 of 41“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”
– Jean Anouilh
27 of 41“Love doesn’t grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, and wild leaps.”
– Ian McEwan
28 of 41“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach...”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “How do I love thee? (Sonnet 43)”
29 of 41“Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.”
– George Burns
30 of 41“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.”
– Unknown
31 of 41“’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson
32 of 41“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
33 of 41“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Franklin P. Jones
34 of 41“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.”
РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry
35 of 41“Clasp me close in your warm young arms, / While the pale stars shine above, / And we’ll live our whole young lives away / In the joys of a living love…”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “I Love You”
36 of 41“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; / And death shall have no dominion.”
– Dylan Thomas, “And Death Shall Have No Dominion”
37 of 41“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
38 of 41“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”
РFran̤ois Mauriac
39 of 41“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”
– Anne-Sophie Swetchine
40 of 41“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
– Charles M. Schultz
Best 40 of Our Favorite Quotes About Love
