Love Quotes and Sayings - Quotes about Love

Love is a mysterious and elusive concept. There are many kinds of love: romantic love; love of all humanity (often called brotherly love); love of one's parents, children, family; love of God. These quotes on love attempt to capture a sense of the best of these various kinds of love.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile, and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding, leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

Romantic Love

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.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft

You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart.
It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
- Judy Garland

If I never 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

Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

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

The magic words for a great relationship are, "I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sad Love

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Being In Love

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
- Khalil Gibran

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

Inspirational Love

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

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles

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

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Love Quotes from the Bible

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.
- Matthew 5:44

Funny

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

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

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

Friendship often leads to love, but lust seldom lead to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whenever I date a guy, I think, "Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
- Mae West

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner

New Love

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

Sometimes new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]

Whatever happened in the past, forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
- Mae West

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