December 14th, 2018 | Updated on July 23rd, 2022
People who are in love need something special for their love. The best and the worst thing about love is that it cannot be expressed in words. Therefore, we have compiled a list of the best love quotes of all time.
Propose Your Love Quotes
1. “Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.” – Adam S. McHugh
2. “Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.” – Susan Cain
3. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes” – Carl Jung
4.“I want to be alone … with someone else who wants to be alone.” – Dimitri Zaik
5. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
6. “The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
7. “I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.” – Franz Kafka
8. “Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.” – Susan Cain
9. “Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.” – Adam S. McHugh
10.“When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.” – Lana Del Rey
11. “I don’t understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There’s only one of those, so what are all the other things for Like dating-” – C. JoyBell C
12. “Americans… are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.” – Kurt Vonnegut
13. “He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.” – Suzanne Collins
14. “He must love you very much,’ Gavril said once I had my footing.
I couldn’t look at him. ‘What makes you say that-‘ Gavril sighed. ‘I’ve known Maxon since he was a child. He’s never stood up to his father like that.” – Kiera Cass,
15. “The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.” – Sarah Dessen
16. “Not enough,” he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. “If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won’t be enough.”
– Cassandra Clare
17. “Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.” – Paulo Coelho
18. “Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.” – Charles Caleb Colton
19. “To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect” – Jane Austen
20. “You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.” – Rabindranath Tagore
21. “People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I’m able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn’t. Love is imperfect. Falling for someone’s flaws is just as necessary as falling for their strengths. And people like myself, who fall into love easily, are sometimes the loneliest souls around at the end of the day.” – Ashly Lorenzana
22. “I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.” – Dylan Thomas
23. “Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.” – Rabindranath Tagore
24. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Nat King Cole
25. “I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I’m seeing we don’t live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It’s an infinite playlist.” – David Levithan
26. “The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the love of your son! I don’t have a daughter, but maybe the love of a daughter is the best, too. I am first and foremost me, but right after that, I am a mother. The best thing that I can ever be, is me. But the best gift that I will ever have, is being a mother.” – C. JoyBell C.
27. “To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.” – Anna Louise Strong
28. “You dumb-ass,” I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. “You don’t share me. You own me.” – Gayle Forman
29. “The thing with your heart’s desire is that your heart doesn’t even know what it desires until it turns up.” – Daniel Handler
30. “One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.” – Alain de Botton
Honest Quotes About Love
31. “Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too large a pleasure she could not endure. If pain was love, then she loved fiercely. Yet knew she could not be near that boy again.” – Jamie Weise
32. “For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me” – William Shakespeare
33. “She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn’t help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn’t mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn’t apply to Calypso. Obviously.” – Rick Riordan
34. “It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love” – Oscar Wilde
35. “Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.” – John O’Donohue
36. “Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue. ” – Osho
37. “I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. “Centrum permanebit.” – Richelle Mead
39. “He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again – the year I realize that love doesn’t follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable” – Jodi Picoult,
40. “There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other’s names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home- Only the one who knows your name.” – Jeanette Winterson
41. “Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.” – Francois Sagan
42. “I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing. ” – Charlotte Brontë
43. “I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.” – Sarah Addison Allen
44. “Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, my blade will be at her side. And should it fail to protect her, let my own existence be forfeit.” – Ash” – Julie Kagawa
45. “Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!” – Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
46. “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.” – Dr Roopleen
47. “Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.” – Victor Hugo
48. “What a terrible feeling to love soemone and not be able to help them.” – Jennifer Niven
49. “I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe.” – Anaïs Nin
50. “In this whole screwed-up town, you’re the only thing that’s always been right to me,” he whispered. “I love you, Claire.” She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I do. I love you.” – Rachel Caine
51. “Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.” – Paulo Coelho
52. “Love! Love until the night collapses!” – Pablo Neruda
53. “Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don’t like you anymore. I’m sorry.” – David Nicholls
54. “It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.” – Gustave Flaubert
55. “Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments–because they’re willing to brave the shadows with you and in your greatest moments because they’re not afraid to let you shine.” – Nicole Yatsonsky
56. “Everyone’s a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.” – Michelle Hodkin
57. “You’ve got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn’t define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don’t have to struggle to be good enough for.” – Deb Caletti
58. “You know I’m old in some ways-in others-well, I’m just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
59. “Love is eternal — the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one’s work.”- Vincent Willem van Gogh
60. “She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.” – Mitch Albom
Long Distance Relationships Love Quotes
61. “You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.” – Cristina Marrero
62. “When you leave,weary of me,without a word I shall gently let you go.” – Kim Sow
63. “Stains are even worse when you’re the only one who can see them.” – Gayle Forman
64. “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
65. “No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” – Faraaz Kazi
66. “How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved thesorrowsof your changing face.” – William Butler Yeats
67. “It’s usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.” – Saul Bellow
68. “For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.” – Neil Gaiman
69. “This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together…. But I do love you surely in a better way than he does.” He thought. “Yes—really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.” – E.M. Forster
70. “I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She’s tied me to her for eternity. She’s my home. She’s my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.” – Colleen Houck
71. “If people are going to be allowed to say “we love you” and “I love you”, they’d better have the backbone to prove it. Love isn’t just a word.” – C. JoyBell C.
72. “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.” – Michael Jackson
73. “I can do pain. That’s the easy part of life. It’s everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that’s fucking complicated.” – Jessica Sorensen
74. “I didn’t know love could leave the lights on all the time.” – Rainbow Rowell
75. “some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.” – Ann Brashares
76. “To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” – Bill Wilson
77. “You have found true love when you realize that you want to wake up beside your love every morning even when you have your differences.” – Unkown
78. “Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.” – Hemingway
79.“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”— Lucille Ball
80. “I love you and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
81. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” — Morrie Schwartz
82.“My six word love story: I can’t imagine life without you.” – Anonymous
83.“To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.”– Madonna
84. “Love is a friendship set to music.”— Joseph Campbell
85. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft
86. “You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.” – Nicolas Sparks
87.“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”— Blaise Pascal
88. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
89. “I’ve fallen in love many times…always with you.” – Unkown
90.“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.”— Lao Tzu
Best Sweet Love Quotes
91. “You know its love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”— Julia Roberts
92. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”— Plato
93. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
94. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”— Oscar Wilde
95. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” — Khalil Gibran
96. “It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.” — Lucille Ball
97. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” — Oprah Winfrey
98. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” – Julia Roberts
99. “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.” — Winnie the Pooh
100. “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
101. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller
