A list of the most Famous Love Quotes and sayings of all time. Did we miss any?

 

“’Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.”

-  Lord Tennyson

 

“They do not love that do not show their love.”

-  William Shakespeare

 

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.”

- Vincent van Gogh

 

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

- Helen Keller

 

“Where there is love there is life.”

- Gandhi 

 

“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”

- William M. Thackeray

 

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

- Henry David Thoreau

 

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

- Aristotle

 

“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”

- Leo Tolstoy

 

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

- Ingrid Bergman

 

“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”

- John Donne

 

“I love her and that’s the beginning of everything.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

“Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.”

- Voltaire

 

“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.”

- Abraham Crowley

 

“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”

- Madame De Staël

 

“Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.”

- William Shakespeare

 

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

- William Shakespeare

 

“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”

- William Shakespeare

 

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

- William Shakespeare

 

“Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him,

Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.”

- Ovid

 

“This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.”

- Thomas Mann

 

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”

- Michael Leunig 

 

“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”

- Pascal 

 

“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.”

- Agnes Repplier 

 

“And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, don’t let logic interfere, believe your heart instead.”

- Philip Robison 

 

“To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.”

- Lao Tzu 

 

“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

- Bruce Lee

 

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

- Mother Theresa

 

“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”

- Benjamin Franklin

 

“Love is not blind – It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.”

- Will Moss

 

“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”

- Buddha

 

“So dear I love him that with him,

All deaths I could endure.

Without him, live no life.”

- William Shakespeare

 

“The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.”

- William Shakespeare

 

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

- George Sand

 

“Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.”

- Robert Sexton

 

“My heart is ever at your service.”

- William Shakespeare

 

“When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.”

- Dr Seuss

 

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

- Mignon McLaughlin

 

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”

- Christopher Marlowe

 

“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”

- John Keats

 

“Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.”

- Sarah Bernhardt

 

“What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“I don’t want to live–

I want to love first,

And live incidentally.”

- Zelda Fitzgerald

 

“The more you love, the more you can love—

And the more intensely you love.

Nor is there any limit on how many you can love.”

- Robert Heinlein

 

“Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.”

- Isaac Asimov

 

“At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”

- Ernesto “Che” Guevara

 

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

- William Congreve

 

“Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

 

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

 

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