Every person experiences love in their own singular fashion. It can be incredibly direct or frustratingly ephemeral, wonderful or maddening.
It’s important for partners to express their appreciation for one another. But finding a new, meaningful way to do it can be difficult. When a lover’s words fail to describe that magical feeling, a few quotes about love can the talking!
Quotes about Love to Warm the Heart
1. “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity and her flaming self-respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. But of course the real reason, Isabelle, is that I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything. You’re still a Catholic, but Zelda’s the only God I have left now.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a letter to Isabelle Amorous concerning his wife Zelda
2. “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
3. “It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
4. “Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” William Goldman, The Princess Bride
5. “You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass’d my window home yesterday, I was fill’d with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time…Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you.” John Keats, in a letter to Fanny Brawne
6. “This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.” David Levithan, Every Day
7. “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
8. “Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
9. “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” Rumi
10. “I have been wondering, mostly, if love and sanity are the same thing. When I say I am in love I am also saying the world makes sense to me right now.” Neil Hilborn, Our Numbered Days
11. “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” Joan Crawford
12. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” Friedrich Nietzsche
13. “What is love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.” Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
14. “As I am the end, so my lover is the beginning. I encompass the whole work of creation, and all knowledge is hidden in me. Who will dare to separate me from my love? No one, for our love is as strong as death.” Aurora Consurgens, attributed to Thomas Aquinas
15. “It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.” Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches
16. “For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.” Rainer Maria Rilke
17. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.” Oscar Wilde
18. “You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
19. “I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
20. “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” Roger de Rabutin de Bussy
21. “Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.” Margaret Weis, Dragons of a Lost Star
22. “It has made me better loving you… it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter… It’s just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the twilight, and suddenly the lamp comes in. I had been putting out my eyes over the book of life, and finding nothing to reward me for my pains; but now that I can read it properly I see that it’s a delightful story.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
23. “I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.” Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
24. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” Lao Tzu
25. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” Charles M. Schulz
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These romantic love quotes can bring charm to a Valentine’s Day card or add a little something to a text. But don’t rely on love quotes alone to keep a relationship sparking! Check out the blog for more tips on bringing a fresh perspective to romances new and old.
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