68 Love Quotes For Inspiration

Love is a universal language that transcends time, culture, and boundaries. Whether we seek to express our deepest emotions, find motivation in our relationships, or revel in the beauty of romantic connections, love quotes often provide the perfect words we struggle to find. In this collection, we've curated the top 68 love quotes that offer both inspiration and reflection on love’s many facets. From timeless classics to contemporary musings, these quotes will bring warmth to your heart and a smile to your face, reminding you of the boundless power of love in our lives. Dive in and let these words inspire your own journey of love and affection.

1. “Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.” - Milan Kundera

2. “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

3. “What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?” - Francesca Lia Block

4. “I knew I loved you before I met youI think I dreamed you into lifeI knew I loved you before I met youI have been waiting all my life” - Savage Garden

5. “It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.” - Nick Hornby

6. “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” - Vincent Van Gogh

7. “The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.” - Hannah Arendt

8. “They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself.” - Khalil Gibran

9. “[T]he hidden linguistic universe of companianate couples... rests entirely on one generative phrase: 'Would you please stop doing that.” - Laura Kipnis

10. “In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.” - Marianne Williamson

11. “The dove descending breaks the airWith flame of incandescent terrorOf which the tongues declareThe one discharge from sin and error.The only hope, or else despairLies in the choice of pyre or pyre-To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love.Love is the unfamiliar NameBehind the hands that woveThe intolerable shirt of flameWhich human power cannot remove.We only live, only suspireConsumed by either fire or fire.” - T.S. Eliot

12. “Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information?” Bones asked, getting back to the subject. “You to take me,” she replied at once. “Not gonna happen!” I spat, squeezing him possessively. Three sets of widened eyes fixed on me. That’s when I realized that what I had a firm grip on was no longer his hand.” - Jeaniene Frost

13. “She could not leave him hanging like this. “If you were hurt, I need to know.” It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook.” - Tara Janzen

14. “And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.” - Ally Carter

15. “If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.” - Gayle Forman

16. “Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.” - Nicholas Sparks

17. “Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away” - Candace Bushnell

18. “I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."~ Hardy Cates” - Lisa Kleypas

19. “I basked in you;I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead.(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)” - Franz Wright

20. “True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.” - Mata Amritanandamayi

21. “From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.” - Hesiod

22. “Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each other’s bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love – think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them!” - Christopher Isherwood

23. “The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.” - Barbara de Angelis

24. “Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.” - Jeanette Winterson

25. “wert thou as farAs that vast shore washed with the farthest sea,I would adventure for such merchandise.” - William Shakespeare

26. “I wonder if it is possible to have two boyfriends. I mean, times are changing. Relationships are more complicated. In France men always have mistresses and wives and so on. Henri probably has two girlfriends. He would laugh if you told him you just had one. He would say, 'C'est tres, tres tragique.'” - Louise Rennison

27. “Did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there..” - Train

28. “Love is not a thing you can pick up and throw into the gutter and pick up again as the fancy takes you. I am a person, very unfortunately for you, with a quite peculiar dread of thrusting myself or my affections on any one, of in any way outstaying my welcome. The man I would love would be the man I could trust to love me for ever. I do not trust you. I did outstay my welcome once. I did get thrown into the gutter, and came near drowning in that sordid place.” - Elizabeth von Arnim

29. “If to love each other is the job, then the happy life is the salary.” - Toba Beta

30. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” - E.E. Cummings

31. “Your heart can break at any age.” - Cecelia Ahern

32. “Those whom the gods love grow young.” - Oscar Wilde

33. “I don't want to lose you," he whispered again. "And I didn't want to be lost.” - Jodi Meadows

34. “If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion.” - Maryrose Wood

35. “He hesitated, as if wrestling with the desire to cross the space between us and kiss me until I admitted I was just a tiny bit in love with him too. But he didn't. He didn't.” - Lisa Tawn Bergren

36. “If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.” - Valerie Tripp

37. “Don't strive for love, be it.” - Hugh Prather

38. “For what it's worth," Dad says, running his fingers over the picture, "I've never seen anyone run faster than Henry after you hurt your knee last week.” - Miranda Kenneally

39. “Would you do something for me? Please? Would you just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with that guy, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I could do it again, if I thought it's what you really wanted.” - Nicholas Sparks

40. “Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and the first was THE WAY HE HOLDS THINGS. I did not understand how you can miss the way somebody holds things.” - Nicole Krauss

41. “I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.I wanted to, but I did not!” - Faraaz Kazi

42. “If I cannot carry your heart with me, let me carry your hate. For if you curse and scream at me, I'll at least know that you feel something for me. If I cannot make you mine, let me make you no one's. Let me place you in a glass jar and hear you pound against it.” - Shvaugn Craig

43. “We live in a generation of not being in love, and not being together. But we sure make it feel like we're together, because we're scared of seeing each other with somebody else.” - drake

44. “Islands of memory begin to rise above the river of his life. At first they are little uncharted islands, rocks just peeping above the surface of the waters. Round about them and behind in the twilight of the dawn stretches the great untroubled sheet of water; then new islands, touched to gold by the sun.” - Romain Rolland

45. “Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope.What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.” - Wendell Berry

46. “Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?” - Michael Scott

47. “Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.” - Jennifer Paynter

48. “A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back—bruised and aching—as he continues to strive for excellence due to the all-consuming obsession and love for his art.” - H G Mewis

49. “اللي بيحب حد يشوفه أحسن واحد في الدنيا لأنه أصلا بيعتبر وجوده في الدنيا مرتبط بحياته” - مروة حلمي يوميات بابا عمر وماما سارة

50. “There is no love that is not an echo.” - Theodor Adorno

51. “Tell othersWhen you love them.This will really make their livesWorth living.” - Sri Chinmoy

52. “All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart.” - James Baldwin

53. “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

54. “But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. we thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich.” - Ernest Hemingway

55. “Her receding laughter sounded so comforting, so alluring to my senses that I could hardly control myself from reaching out to her and telling her what I felt there and then!” - Faraaz Kazi

56. “Imagine that. You just can't let your entire life go by worrying about your damned thighs. You'd never find happiness.” - Sarah Gilbert

57. “I hold the bottle out into the rain and watch as the steady flow slowly fills it. When there is enough, enough that Beth can clearly see, I close the bottle and hand it to her.She raises a skeptical eyebrow, but accepts the bottle."It's our rain Beth."Her head barely shakes to show her confusion while I rub the back of my neck and search for my courage. "I told you I loved you in this rain and when you doubt my words, I want you to look at this bottle.” - Katie McGarry

58. “Dor felt a warm, calming feeling when he said those words—She is my wife—because ever since they were children she was like the sky to him, forever around.” - Mitch Albom

59. “Hold love like a butterfly, with gentle preservation. Hold life like the reigns of a wild stallion, with fierce assertion. Encompass that, and you find the nectar of the immortal spirit.” - Kellie Elmore

60. “Sam's eyes studied my lips and I studied hers. We each leaned in closer until our foreheads were touching. It felt like currents of electricity were running through the two of us, making me feel like I was going to melt from the intensity.” - Keary Taylor

61. “Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life." Faith Barnett From Texas Tangle” - Leah Braemel

62. “In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love?” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

63. “...I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art...” - John Geddes

64. “The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life--or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window--is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.” - Jojo Moyes

65. “Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only... Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for, even if that search took a lifetime.” - Jennifer Worth

66. “Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different.” - John Green

67. “My chest aches, but not with fear or sadness. With hope. With love. I love her. I love her, and it is better than anything else I can remember. "You found me.” - Stacey Jay

68. “Nadie me había mirado así jamás, Leo. Así, tan, tan, tan... Sí, tan así. Queria que lo supieras. Por cierto es un cumplido, un pequeño cumplido, amor. ¿Lo has notado?” - Daniel Glattauer