41 Love Story Quotes

Love stories have a timeless appeal, captivating hearts and minds across generations and cultures. Whether it's the passionate exchanges between star-crossed lovers, the poetic musings of literary icons, or the heartfelt words spoken in real-life romances, love has a way of expressing itself in the most beautiful forms. In this collection, we've carefully curated 41 of the most poignant love story quotes that perfectly capture the essence of falling in love, staying in love, and everything in between. These quotes are sure to inspire, move, and remind us all of the incredible journey that love entails.

1. “Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle's compass come:Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom.” - William Shakespeare

2. “As our kissing progresses, I don’t care that our tryst seems raunchy and wrong. I don’t care that I’m at school, in the boy’s bathroom. I don’t care that to most people this would seem cheap, dirty, and despicable. The only thing I can think about while he kisses me deeper, harder, faster, is that Henry Garner is the plague and the only thing I want him to do is infect me.” - Lauren Hammond

3. “This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that.” - Carroll Bryant

4. “‎''Your heart is either beating or it's not, your heart never forgets. As long as your heart is beating follow it, it will always stay true to you.” - Shawn Kirsten Maravel

5. “Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery” - Judith McNaught

6. “…so many ticks steadily around the clock. My heart beats ferociously, as if to say it will not digest this leaving. But you are gone. I could never look into your tormenting eyes again. You mock me with each word you choose…. of the millions of words in the English tongue you could have chosen…you select the one’s that break me down.” - Jamie Weise

7. “The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?” - Kathleen Valentine

8. “No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all.” - David Levithan

9. “The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment -daniel grigori (fallen)” - daniel grigori

10. “I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.” - John Green

11. “The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone.” - Faraaz Kazi

12. “It's me being me making you be you...” - Nitya Prakash

13. “We both grew up at a time when homosexuality was not even spoken about. There were certainly no books that could help a young person understand that two people of the same sex could build a happy, productive and loving life together. When we entered our 50th year, another same sex couple told us we were ‘an inspiration’, so we began to feel we had the responsibility to make what we’ve experienced available to others. We also wanted to show people who were not gay that our life was not unlike theirs. We are all pretty much the same, so we deserve equal protection under the Constitution.” - Norman Sunshine

14. “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.” - Bernard Branson

15. “... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

16. “I know this isn’t a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.” - Jojo Moyes

17. “Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize people are watching you, to be so confident that you don't even have to worry about being nervous or feeling self-conscious. I've spent what seems like my whole life trying to pretend I'm that way. What would it be like to have it just come naturally?” - Lauren Barnholdt

18. “Because home is where your heart is. And one heart can work wonders when it's beating strongly. And the sweet fairy tales can become true” - Georgia Kakalopoulou

19. “—And you completely blow me away and rip my world up and everything else, and then you go back to ignoring me.” “I blew you away?” I squeak out before I can stop myself. He stares at me steadily. “You blew everything away.” - Lauren Oliver

20. “You wanted a wife but I wasstill a girl.” - Kate Chisman

21. “She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.” - Haruki Murakami

22. “Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound.” - Haruki Murakami

23. “He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.” - Haruki Murakami

24. “I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

25. “Think of that person you knew when you were a kid, who you always thought you could have loved completely and forever.Well, you could have. It’s the truth, and it’s the saddest and simplest thing. There isn’t just one person for each of us in the world. There aren’t many, but there are always a few people we could have made it with, that maybe we still want to make it with, that press themselves so close to our hearts they leave scars, and then slip through our fingers and disappear from our lives. And it doesn’t make a difference if you’re thirteen or ninety- eight because some things you feel are real, no matter when.” - Abigail Tarttelin

26. “Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?” - Helen Hunt Jackson

27. “Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,--it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,--feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy!” - Helen Hunt Jackson

28. “Yes, he knew he was falling in love, her way. And the worst part was, as disabling as he found the emotion to be he craved it all the more. To feel this way about a woman was amazing even if it was ‘temporary and fleeting’, as he’d put it. It was a natural high like he’d never felt before. One he couldn’t get enough of.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

29. “When I reach out, you take my hand. When I smile, you mirror the expression.When I triumph, you glory as if it were your own.When I fail, you point to the light at the end.When I need, you tenderly provide.When I cry, you kiss away my tears.When I suffer,  you bleed.And you wonder why I love you?” - Richelle E. Goodrich

30. “And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.” - Jodi Picoult

31. “You’re everything to me—you always have been, and you always will be. Always and forever.” - Michelle Madow

32. “Being in love has the same effect as being on drugs.” - Natalie Ansard

33. “As the fireworks began to illuminate the sky above them, Blake and Veronica made love for the first time on Hideaway Hill.” - Elle A. Rose

34. “Everything depends exclusively on emotions.” - Natalie Ansard

35. “It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures.” - Lorrie Moore

36. “A real, true love that makes a human being believe in the power of destiny happens only once in a lifetime.” - Natalie Ansard

37. “Loving isn't about selecting only the good parts. It's about taking the whole and loving the lot.” - Santa Montefiore

38. “Every success story has a secret,Even if it’s a love story.” - Moffat Machingura

39. “Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.” - Cassandra Giovanni

40. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul.” - Cassandra Giovanni

41. “I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.” - Cassandra Giovanni