101 Amazing Love Quotes and Sayings

101 Amazing Love Quotes And Sayings

“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”

― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

 “Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried.”

― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“Do you really think anyone in this world, compares to you in my eyes?”

― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“He was the toast to her butter.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“You have my whole heart. You always did.”

― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.”

― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

   “Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.”

― Colleen Hoover 

“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”

― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe

 “Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.”

― Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

“I may not always be with you
But when we're far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart”

― Marc Wambolt, Poems from the Heart

“You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.”

― Frida Kahlo

“Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:

1. Acceptance
2. Understanding
3. Appreciation

Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.

Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?

So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.”

― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

 “I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”

― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

 “I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.”

― Nikki Giovanni

 

“Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.”

― Alysha Speer 
 

“Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.”

― Richard P. Feynman 

 “Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”

― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

“I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.”

― Lev Grossman, The Magicians  

 “When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)”

― Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.”

― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.”

― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”

― Rabindranath Tagore   

“If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.”

― W.H. Auden  

“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”

― che guevara  

“Know that love is truly timeless.”

― Mary M. Ricksen

“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”

― Mik Everett

“A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night”

― James Patterson 

“But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

“We're all golden sunflowers inside.”

― allen ginsberg  

“When you miss someone....it’s weird…your body doesn’t function normally..as it should. Because I miss you, and my heart…it’s not steady…my soul it sings numb. Fingers are cold…like you…your soul.”

― Jamie Weise

“For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am”

― Christopher Poindexter 

“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”

― Scott Turow

“Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.”

― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”

― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone

“It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.”

― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

“I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.”

― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

“I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.”

― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.”

― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.”

― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? ”

― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.”

― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.”

― Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe

“I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that”

― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

― Bell Hooks 

“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.”

― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.”

― Dee Henderson, The Healer

“A girl can still admire, can’t she? Even those who can’t afford to go in the store can still window-shop. Right? Knowing he wasn’t for me didn’t mean I couldn’t covet the merchandise.”

― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

“What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?”

― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle   
    

     “The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.”

― Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance  
  

“The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.”

― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I don't think you can define love.”

― Harry Styles

“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead 

“Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?”

― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

  “Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.”

― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

“Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.”

― veronica rossi, Through the Ever Night

“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.”

― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

“I believe in love the verb, not the noun.”

― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“I love you and it's getting worse.”

― Joseph Morris  

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”

― Anton Chekhov

“No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? ”

― Albert Einstein

“Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.”

― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

“Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.”

― Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”

― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."

“Why are they all high-calorie foods?”

― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

“If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”

― J.M. Barrie

“A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.”

― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.”

― Rumi

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”

― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience 

“Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.”

― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.”

― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched.
We separate.”

― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

  “How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.”

― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience   

“If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.”

― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.”

― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

  “When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”

― Mark Twain, Notebook

“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”

― Jack Kerouac

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”

― Osho

“She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger”

― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.”

― Sigmund Freud

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.”

― Jackie Collins, Lucky

“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.”

― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love 
 

“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...”

― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

“Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.”

― Nayyirah Waheed

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.”

― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

“In love, one and one are one.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre

“None of us can choose where we shall love...”

― Susan Kay, Phantom

“They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.
But now I knew that every mad word was true.”

― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.”

― Shannon Hale

“It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love”

― John Lennon 

“Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.”

― Lauren Kate 

“...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”

― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With 

“Hearts Live By Being Wounded”

― Oscar Wilde  

 “Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”

― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red 

“He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.”

― Philippa Gregory, The White Queen  

“Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.”

― tarryn fisher, Dirty Red  

“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
This only looks like love.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters  

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”

― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays