30 Lovely Quotes To Inspire

In a world often filled with complexity and chaos, taking a moment to reflect on a few meaningful words can provide a profound sense of peace and inspiration. Lovely quotes have the remarkable ability to convey wisdom, evoke emotions, and inspire actions with just a handful of words. Whether you're seeking motivation, comfort, or simply a touch of beauty in your day, our curated collection of the top 30 lovely quotes is here to uplift your spirit and ignite your inner spark. Join us on this journey of words and wonder, and let these quotes remind you of the beauty and grace that exists within and around us.

1. “This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw. But what was of more value, he felt and suffered with her. In years that were yet to come, he relived this memory in song, in the most beautiful song this world has known. For the understanding of the soul's defencelessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song. The source of the greatest song is sympathy.” - Halldor Laxness

2. “Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.” - Nelson Algren

3. “I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

4. “Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.” - Ian McEwan

5. “ordered me a sky from a florist” - Angela Carter

6. “O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl— a bit like Crab Nebula— do for now.” - Charles Olson

7. “i worried he'd let go, but he didn't. We held hands like this the whole rest of the way home.” - Jenny Han

8. “You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ...” - Francesca Lia Block

9. “.. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you." ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.” - Charlaine Harris

10. “She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.” - Anna Godbersen

11. “What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.” - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

12. “Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them.” - Owen Meredith

13. “Before I could reply, he had picked me up, literally swept me off my feet, and kissed me. And afterwards, when I tried to speak, he silenced me in much the same manner. It was a shock (but not at all distasteful) to be so caught up. Later - when he at last set me down - he handled me more gently. He took of my glasses and told me that he loved me.” - Jennifer Paynter

14. “Every negative...Jas a positive side...” - Nelson M. Lubao

15. “Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, mind, heart, soul.” - Victor Bramwell, Earl of Rycliff.” - Tessa Dare

16. “He had the effect on her of a window being thrown open and fresh air and sunlight being let in” - Elizabeth von Arnim

17. “Let me rephrase.” He took a seething step toward me. “When it comes to you… I don’t like to share.” - Samantha Young

18. “The boy slept well in the woodland nest where he had laid himself down, in that kind of thin but refreshing sleep which people have when they begin to lie out of doors. At first he only dipped below the surface of sleep, and skimmed along like a salmon in shallow water, so close to the surface that he fancied himself in air. He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the starsabove his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth.” - T.H. White

19. “Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.]” - Jean-Pierre Jeunet

20. “Su aliento le llegaba anhelante y él lo sentía tibio sobre sus labios” - A.J.CRONIN

21. “He asks me which of them two I liked best. Perhaps I liked Mr. Harry Carson once--I don't know--I've forgotten; but I loved James Wilson, that's now on trial, above what tongue can tell--above all else on earth put together; and I love him now better than ever, though he has never known a word of it till this minute... I never found out how dearly I loved another till one day, when James Wilson asked me to marry him, and I was very hard and sharp in my answer (for indeed, sir, I'd a deal to bear just then), and he took me at my word and left me; and from that day to this I've never spoken a word to him, or set eyes on him; though I'd fain have done so, to try and show him we had both been too hasty; for he'd not been gone out of my sight above a minute before I knew I loved--far above my life," said she, dropping her voice as she came to this second confession of the strength of her attachment. "But, if the gentleman asks me which I loved the best, I make answer, I was flattered by Mr. Carson, and pleased with his flattery; but James Wilson, I"--She covered her face with her hands, to hide the burning scarlet blushes, which even dyed her fingers.” - Elizabeth Gaskell

22. “...did you know that in your eyes there are bright flecks of green and orange - and that they are lovely?...” - John Geddes A Familiar Rain

23. “A lot of people would kill for my life, but I didn’t even consider that. I took it—and you—for granted. I’m so, so sorry for that” - Kody Keplinger

24. “Peter.' It was the first time I had used his name. 'You heard me sing tonight, did you not?''Yes, love.'The endearment took my breath away - made me forget what I meant to say. I stood there with but one thought: He must care about me.” - Jennifer Paynter

25. “She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?” - Cornelia Funke

26. “Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

27. “It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself” - Roald Dahl

28. “The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.” - Robert Jordan

29. “I told her about the best and the worst. The slow and sleepy places where weekdays rolled past like weekends and Mondays didn’t matter. Battered shacks perched on cliffs overlooking the endless, rumpled sea. Afternoons spent waiting on the docks, swinging my legs off a pier until boats rolled in with crates full of oysters and crayfish still gasping. Pulling fishhooks out of my feet because I never wore shoes, playing with other kids whose names I never knew. Those were the unforgettable summers. There were outback towns where you couldn’t see the roads for red dust, grids of streets with wandering dogs and children who ran wild and swam naked in creeks. I remembered climbing ancient trees that had a heartbeat if you pressed your ear to them. Boomboom-boomboom. Dreamy nights sleeping by the campfire and waking up covered in fine ash, as if I’d slept through a nuclear holocaust. We were wanderers, always with our faces to the sun.” - Vikki Wakefield

30. “I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.” - Bernard M. Baruch