Best Love Quotes

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

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I love you just the way you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard

I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.
- Edmond Rostand

Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer

Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin

Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell

If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous

Everything is clearer when you're in love.
- John Lennon

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen

And think not, you can direct the course of love;
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil Gibran

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Love is of all passions the strongest,
for it attacks simultaneously the head,
the heart and the senses.
- Lao Tzu

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford

Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's so easy to fall in love
but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous

In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland

A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal

I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston

No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton

Love cures people - both the ones who give it
and the ones who receive it.
- Karl A. Menninger

Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde

When love is not madness, it is not love.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon

Love makes the world go 'round
- an old anonymous proverb,
made popular by the 1958 and 1961 songs

Love conquers all.
- Virgil

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When we find someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall into
mutually satisfying weirdness -
and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.

Do you love me because I am beautiful,
or am I beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)

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 A. Baldwin

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken

Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere

Love is like a butterfly,
it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous

Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
- Lewis Carroll

Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings

Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard

When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin

Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous

Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare

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.
- Anonymous

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)

True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous

Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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