111 Heartfelt Quotes On Love

Love is a universal language that transcends boundaries, cultures, and time. It is an emotion that has been explored, cherished, and celebrated in countless ways throughout history. Whether you're looking to express your deepest feelings, find solace during heartbreak, or simply ponder the beauty of connection, heartfelt quotes on love offer a powerful way to resonate with these emotions. In this collection of the top 111 quotes, we have carefully curated words that capture the essence of love in all its forms. Let these quotes inspire you, bring a smile to your face, or provide comfort, as you navigate your own journey with love.

1. “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” - Kahlil Gibran

2. “A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3. “The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...” - C.S. Lewis

4. “Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.” - Henry Rollins

5. “and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.” - Jodi Picoult

6. “Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.” - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

7. “It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.” - D.H. Lawrence

8. “The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.” - ben franklin

9. “Why break the heart that never beat from love?” - Mervyn Peake

10. “Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.” - Dodie Smith

11. “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” - Alphonse de Lamartine

12. “When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.” - Virginia Woolf

13. “Hold your head high heavy heart.” - William Beckett

14. “The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.” - Margaret Atwood

15. “There's only one thing that can heal the heart... Only one... It's love, Gaara.” - Masashi Kishimoto

16. “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.” - Fannie Flagg

17. “Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.” - Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

18. “Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.” - Markus Zusak

19. “She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.” - Catherine Gilbert Murdock

20. “Tell Hugh," she whispered.Tell Hugh your freaking self! He's right here! And you're not going anywhere.” - L.J. Smith

21. “Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.” - Joanne Harris

22. “My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.” - Claire Keegan

23. “Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.” - Brian Ruckley

24. “Only with a clear mind will you be able to see who is truly in your heart.” - Clamp

25. “Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.” - Kahlil Gibran

26. “You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.” - Neil Gaiman

27. “The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.” - Vera Nazarian

28. “Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.” - Cornelia Funke

29. “They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.” - colum mccann

30. “Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.”“Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh.He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.” - Lisa Kleypas

31. “Questions, I've got some questionsI want to know youBut what if I could ask you only one thingOnly this one time, what would you tell me?Well maybe you could give me a suggestionSo I could know you, what would you tell me?Maybe you could tell me what to ask youBecause then I'd know you, what would you tell mePlease tell me that there's timeTo make this work for all intents and purposesAnd what are your intentions, will you try?Impressions, you've made impressionsThey're going nowhereThey're just going to wait here if you let themPlease don't let themI want to know youAnd if they're going to haunt mePlease collect themPlease just collect themAnd now I'm beggingI'm begging you to ask me just one questionOne simple questionBecause then you'd know meI'll tell you that there's timeTo make this work for all intents and purposesAt least for my ownWhat is a heart worth if it's just left all alone?Leave it long enough and watch it turn into stoneWhy must we always be untrue?” - Jack Johnson

32. “The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.” - Ted Hughes

33. “I'm here!" I said..."I'm read to go home!" As if they couldn't see me. As if I couldn't remember what it had been like, fluttering next to someone's ear and whispering into it. How the whole earth was like a musical instrument that we could play effortlessly....I could not fly. My sister was not there. My heart was broken.” - Carolyn Turgeon

34. “My heart is schizophrenic.” - Lesley Anne Cowan

35. “I must do something or I shall wear my heart away...” - Charles Dickens

36. “Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.” - Rafael Sabatini

37. “Just like science, there must be other kinds of sensations which haven't yet been feltby the human heart at all.” - Toba Beta

38. “The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.” - Charlie Sheen

39. “How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!” - Eliza Cook

40. “A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'.” - Toba Beta

41. “I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.” - Augusten Burroughs

42. “True love doesn't need proof.The eyes told what heart felt.” - Toba Beta

43. “He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.” - James Joyce

44. “The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.” - Tess Gerritsen

45. “And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.” - Patrick Suskind

46. “Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.” - Danny Kaye

47. “One of the questions that surprised me most was this: “Mommy, if Jesus comes to live inside my heart, will I explode?”“No!” I proclaimed as the children and I headed to the Nile River for a few of them to be baptized that day.Then I thought about the question a bit more.“Yes, if Jesus comes to live in your heart, you will explode.” That is exactly what we should do if Jesus comes to live inside our hearts. We will explode with love, with compassion, with hurt for those who are hurting, and with joy for those who rejoice. We will explode with a desire to be more, to be better, to be close to the One who made us.” - Katie J. Davis

48. “You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.” - Charles Yu

49. “Because you let our love just fall apartYou no longer have my heart” - Boyz II Men

50. “She knew herself the heart of a king buried in a sepulchre (in the land of his love) while the body of the king is elsewhere. My heart lies buried in there like Coeur de Lion (or whoever it was) who had his heart buried at Havre (or wherever it was) and the rest of him buried somewhere else.” - H.D.

51. “Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas— he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.” - Nalini Singh

52. “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.” - Shannon Alder

53. “Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' goldAnd like the sky my soul is also turnin'Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind” - Ray Lamontagne

54. “They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.” - Christine Feehan

55. “I’m mistaken….for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.” - Jamie Weise

56. “Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth.” - Laurie H. Hutzler

57. “Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.” - Suzanne Collins

58. “Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.” - Jimmy Dean

59. “Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.” - Anna Godbersen

60. “Devon had been so lonely, so terribly lonely, for so long. The kind of lonely that sears, that burrows its way deep inside a heart and throbs. Like a gnawing hunger.” - Amy Efaw

61. “True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.” - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

62. “The light of love, the purity of grace,The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole —And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!” - George Gordon Byron

63. “He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.” - Takayuki Yamaguchi

64. “Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.” - Susanna Tamaro

65. “You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.” - Melody Beattie

66. “Were I the Moor I would not be Iago.In following him I follow but myself;Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,But seeming so for my peculiar end.For when my outward action doth demonstrateThe native act and figure of my heartIn compliment extern, ’tis not long afterBut I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at. I am not what I am” - Shakespeare; William

67. “If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.” - Dan Millman

68. “She’d said she loved him. She'd put that impossible, unimaginably beautiful gift in his hands and he’d thrown it back at her. To save her. To save himself.” - V.S. Carnes

69. “Sirds krūtīs – kalta metāla irbe, kura pret vakaru sadrūp pelnos. Ļaujies laika plūdumam un pamijus rokām, kuras tevi glāstīs un nodos. Kuras tevi darvos un dedzinās.” - Inga Ābele

70. “The heart knows the immensity it wants to achieve, but it is limited.” - Nadia Scrieva

71. “Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.” - Markus Zusak

72. “There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.” - Patrick Rothfuss

73. “Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper” - Dorothy L. Sayers

74. “...I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion...” - John Geddes

75. “When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart has the capacity to spread its fragrance of oneness-light all around you.” - Sri Chinmoy

76. “Endeavor for greatness, venture for the sake of the heart.” - Nadège Richards

77. “The language of the heartIs the only languageThat everybody can understand.” - Sri Chinmoy

78. “Fifteen minutes later, Justin looks at his pint of blood with pride. He doesn't want it to go to some stranger, he almost wants to bring it to the hospital himself, survey the wards and present it to someone special, for it's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a very long time.” - Cecelia Ahern

79. “In answer to a question you asked me not a long ago, a question I didn’t answer at the time…it is worth it. Love is a perilous dance too, you see. And if we stop dancing, we’ll die.Don’t ever stop dancing.” - Kate Avery Ellison

80. “...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...” - John Geddes

81. “It's just hard now because... you're jealous. But your heart is so generous and warm, it will melt the bad feelings away." I am 100 percent positive that my mom is the wisest mother in the world.” - Jane O'Connor

82. “The heart never lies” - Christine Love Never Dies

83. “Thou hast ravished my heart.” - Abigail Reynolds

84. “Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.” - Anne Frank

85. “I have been fairly misunderstood by those who think only of the heart and thereby leave the mind behind. They both are vital and important aspects of our created humanity...in the image of God". ~R. Alan Woods {2006]” - R. Alan Woods

86. “The link between the spirit and the mind is the deep heart".~R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

87. “Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

88. “Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.” - Honoré de Balzac

89. “The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?” - Paul Hoffman

90. “Someday we're going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It's moments like this that make life worth enduring.” - Nadège Richards

91. “...I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..” - John Geddes

92. “Di manapun kamu berada. Di situlah hatiku ada. Rumahku itu, kamu.” - Hilda Nurina Sabikah

93. “...some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart...” - John Geddes

94. “Clouds pass and disperse.Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables?Is it for such I agitate my heart?” - Sylvia Plath

95. “But there is saying, and there is doing, and almost always people do something better than they can talk about it, as though the minded body defeats every attempt to select out only the mind part as deserving sole responsibility for the success.” - Alice Koller

96. “Nature's heart beats strong amid the hills.” - Richard Monckton Milnes

97. “Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.” - Debbie Macomber

98. “The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

99. “Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.” - Eric Whitacre

100. “Când întâlnești un bărbat ca Don Juanul tău, imposibil, scandalos de seducător, amuză-te cât poți, dar ai grijă să-ți încui inima în safe superblindat. Dacă ești însă slabă de înger, cotește-o urgent pe altă uliță.” - Rodica Ojog - Brasoveanu

101. “May your heart open.May joy emerge.May love flow through you.May you heal and help others.” - Charlene Costanzo

102. “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” - Mandela Nelson

103. “It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.” - Lawrence Durrell

104. “Music is a second language to my heart.” - Mara Arps

105. “har baat kahte ho juban se mujhe tum... Kabhi apna haal bejuban bhi to bata dil..” - Naresh Sharma

106. “I felt my heart expanding, making room for him to movie in permanently.” - Cecily White

107. “I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us...” - Kate Chisman

108. “I fix what's broken - except in the heart.” - Bernard Malamud

109. “I do not need the strength of your arm to make a knight of you, Gavin. All I need is your heart, and that you have given,' the Prince said.” - Chuck Black

110. “Don’t keep everything in your heart, one day they might trap there forever.” - M.F. Moonzajer

111. “Many people still believe that “tough guy” means having a camel type muscles rather than a lion heart.” - M.F. Moonzajer