Expressing your feelings is always easier in writing than in person, and text messages are the perfect medium for this. However, sometimes you just can’t find the right words to say (or in this case, write) no matter how hard you try. In situations like these, you can always count on the great wordsmiths of our time and times past to have just the words you’re looking for.
Here you will find 30 quotes about love to share with that special someone in your life.
15 Literary Quotes About Love
- “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this.”
Pablo Neruda – 100 Love Sonnets
- “I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.”
Dee Henderson – The Healer - “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
Jodi Picoult – My Sister’s Keeper - “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
Nicole Krauss – The History of Love - “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist - “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 – The Notebook - “There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
Dodie Smith – I Capture the Castle
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- “To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.”
Elizabeth Gilbert – Eat, Pray, Love - “Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”
Nicholas Sparks – The Choice - “If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.”
Haruki Murakami – 1Q84 - “I give you my name, my earthly possessions, and my eternal love. But of all the things I have, the thing I want most to give you are my eyes, these eyes that see how magnificently beautiful you are.”
Michelle Marcos – Gentlemen Behaving Badly - “Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am and all that I have could not match what you are worth.”
Mercedes Lackey – Beauty and the Werewolf - “You’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood, and seized my heart.”
Maria V. Snyder – Poison Study - “All my happiness seems caught up in one of your smiles.”
Karen Ranney – Upon a Wicked Time - “Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.”
Peter S. Beagle – The Last Unicorn
What 15 Famous People Said About Love
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle - “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
Blaise Pascal - “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”
Princess Diana - “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Seuss - “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
Plato - “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
Arrigo Boito - “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
Albert Einstein
- “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”
Elinor Glyn - “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
Vincent Van Gogh - “Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.”
E. Cummings - “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
Maya Angelou - “Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Emily Dickinson - “One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”
Mitch Albom - “Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
Jorge Luis Borges - “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Herman Hesse
Your Turn
What are your favorite quotes about love, short enough to fit into 200-or-so characters but deep enough to convey all the beauty and complexity of love and romance? Share them with us in the comments below!
