30 Breathtaking Quotes on Love
Love is unquestionably the most powerful force in the universe. It can transform indifference into kindness and strangers into lovers. It can heal old wounds, renew hope, and reawaken the fire in our hearts. Poets, romantics, and philosophers have tried capturing the elusive, all-encompassing, maddening essence of love and created masterpieces in their wake.
Here are the most beautiful and thought-provoking quotes about love.
Between the Shadow and the Soul
“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.” ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
I’d Choose You in Any Lifetime
“And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.” — Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars
Love Is Gazing in the Same Direction
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
We Accept What We Think We Deserve
“We accept the love we think we deserve.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Always Give Love One More Chance
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” — Maya Angelou
Be Your True Self
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
Loving Deeply Gives You Courage
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ― Lao Tzu
Loving Is the Most Noble Purpose in Life
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Love Is a Mirror
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” ― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love
Loving Someone Turns Them Into Your World
“The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you've made them your eternity.” ― Sanober Khan
It’s Better to Have Loved and Lost
“Tis better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all.” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
Love Fades When You Neglect It
“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
Love Like You’ll Never Be Hurt
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey
You’re as Beautiful as the Stars
“You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.” ― Nikita Gill
Soulmates
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Love Always Wins
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
I Love You Because You’re Human
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” — Angelita Lim
Love Is Elusive and Complicated
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” ― Jane Austen, Emma
Love Like the Stars
“You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.” — E.E. Cummings, I Carry Your Heart with Me
Love Is the Strongest Passion
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.” — Lao Tzu
Spending a Lifetime Together
“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” — Nora Ephron
Love Is Both Security and Adventure
“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.” ― Esther Perel
To Be Known and Not Loved Is Our Greatest Fear
“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.” ― Timothy Keller
Love by Helping Them Become Their Best Self
“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” ― Steve Maraboli
Love Transforms You
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ― Carl Gustav Jung
Love Is Unforgettable
“When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of Heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.” — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Love Awakens Your Soul
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” — Zora Neale Hurston
Every Atom of Your Flesh Is as Dear
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and in sickness it would still be dear.” — Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Living Yet One Day More
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” — Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
Love Is Patient
“Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” — 1 Corinthians 13:4-8