Love is sought out by many, but sometimes never experienced in a lifetime. Love is an experience consistency of a range of strong emotions, a state of mind, and an experience to many. Consisting of a deep, interpersonal connection with another human being, love brings pleasure and happiness to ones life. Here are some of the greatest love quotes ever recorded that capture this life seeking experience.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
– Thomas Carlyle
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
– Plato
I love you and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
It’s always better when we’re together.
– Jack Johnson
Love all, trust a few.
– William Shakespeare
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We love because it’s the only true adventure.
– Nikki Giovanni
Do all things with love.
– Og Mandino
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
– Aristotle
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
– Victor Hugo
The giving of love is an education in itself.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
– John Locke
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
– Barbara De Angelis
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
– Charles Dickens
Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
– Thomas Dekker
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
– Lao Tzu
Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
– Franz Kafka
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
– Henry David Thoreau
If you care enough, you will find a way.
– Maxime Lagacé
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
– Elbert Hubbard
To Love is nothing to be loved is something… to love and be loved is everything.
– Bill Russell
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
– Truman Capote
Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
– Henry David Thoreau
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
– Maya Angelou
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
– Vincent van Gogh
Love is energy of life.
– Robert Browning
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
– Thomas Merton
I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.
– J.R.R. Tolkien
If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
– Marc Anthony
Earth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
– Robert Frost
Him that I love, I wish to be free – even from me.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
All you need is love.
– Paul McCartney
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
– Augustine of Hippo
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
– Henry David Thoreau
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
– Bertrand Russell
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
– Stendhal
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
– Bertrand Russell
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
– Andre Breton
Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
– Karl Menninger
I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.
– Zelda Fitzgerald
Givers need to set limits because takers rarely do.
– Rachel Wolchin
You always gain by going love.
– Reese Witherspoon
You’re the closest to heaven, that I’ll ever be.
– Goo Goo Dolls
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
-Victor Hugo
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.
– Lao Tzu
I need you like a heart needs a beat.
– Unknown
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
– Rita Rudner
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
– Simone Weil
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
– Joseph Joubert
’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
– Pablo Picasso
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
– Robert A. Heinlein
Love alone could waken love.
– Pearl S. Buck
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
– Mother Teresa
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
I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each others dreams, we can be together all the time.
– Hobbes
I love life because what more is there?
– Anthony Hopkins
All mankind love a lover.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.
– Mary Oliver
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
– James Thurber
There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.
– Leo Christopher
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
– Ramakrishna
To love is risky. Not to love is foolish.
– Maxime Lagacé
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
– Khalil Gibran
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
– Bruce Lee
I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had.
– The Notebook
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
– William Blake
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
– Felix Adler
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
– Bertrand Russell
To love is to burn, to be on fire.
– Jane Austen
We are most alive when we’re in love.
– John Updike
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
– William Wordsworth
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
– Elbert Hubbard
Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.
– James Thurber
Where there is love there is life.
– Mahatma Gandhi
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Not even old age knows how to love death.
– Sophocles
Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
– Barbara De Angelis
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
– Simone de Beauvoir
Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you. My creed is love and you are its only tenet.
– John Keats
Love conquers all.
– Virgil
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
– Barbara De Angelis
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.
– Jeanne Moreau
In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing.
– Jack Kornfield
Love does not die easily. It is a living thing.
– James D. Bryden
Love is a better teacher than duty.
– Albert Einstein
Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
– Sam Keen
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
– William Hazlitt
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
– Helen Keller
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
– Joseph Addison
To love is, first of all, to accept ourselves as we actually are.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
– Euripides
He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.
– Venerable Bede
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
– Wayne Dyer
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.
– Alfred Tennyson
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
– Marge Piercy
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
– Michael Novak
True love stories never have endings.
– Richard Bach
One word frees is of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
– Sophocles
I’ve always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
– Mandy Moore
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
– Laura Marling
Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.
– Gary Zukav
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
– Washington Irving
When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.
– Keanu Reeves
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
– Audrey Hepburn
I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.
– Taylor Swift
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
– Willa Cather
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
– Lucille Ball
To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains, or agreements. Love exists in the moment-to-moment flux of life.
– Marion Woodman
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
– Sydney Smith
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
– Jimi Hendrix
Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.
– Oscar Wilde
The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
– Oprah Winfrey
Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.
– Elvis Presley
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
– Dr. Seuss
I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.
– Angelita Lim
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
– Charles Schulz
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don’t love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can’t give anything else but that.
