Best famous quotes about love

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
-Sarah Dessen

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
-Ingrid Bergman

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-Mother Teresa

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
-Neil Gaiman

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
-C. S. Lewis

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
-Robert A. Heinlein

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
-Oscar Wilde

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
-Erich Fromm

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
-George Jean Nathan

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
-Marilyn Monroe

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
-Bruce Lee

We accept the love we think we deserve.
-Stephen Chbosky

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
-Elbert Hubbard

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
-Dr. Seuss

Where there is love there is life.
-Mahatma Gandhi

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
-Mother Teresa

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
-Max Muller

To die will be an awfully big adventure.
-James M. Barrie

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
-Rupert Brooke

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
-Thomas Carlyle

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
-Marilyn Monroe

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
-Mother Teresa

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
-Brendan Francis

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

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
-Mother Teresa

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
-Jim Morrison

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
-Orson Welles

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
-Richard Bach

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
-Marilyn Monroe

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
-Nicholas Sparks

You are, and always have been, my dream.
-Nicholas Sparks

We love the things we love for what they are.
-Robert Frost

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
-Joseph Joubert

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
-Samuel Lover

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
-Audrey Hepburn

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.
-J. K. Rowling

Do all things with love.
-Og Mandino

We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.
-Nicholas Sparks

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
-Mother Teresa

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.
-Sarah Dessen

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
-Nicholas Sparks

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.
-Nicholas Sparks

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
-Andre Breton

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
-A. A. Milne

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
-Stendhal

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
-Chuck Palahniuk

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
-Albert Einstein

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
-Jane Austen

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
-Charles Dickens

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
-Charles Caleb Colton

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
-Mother Teresa

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
-Paulo Coelho

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
-George Eliot

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
-Henry Van Dyke

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
-William Shakespeare

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
-Dwight L. Moody

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
-Barbara de Angelis

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
-Michel de Montaigne

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
-William Shakespeare

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
-Paulo Coelho