Top 443 Love Quotes

Few subjects have inspired more words than love. From poets to philosophers, these quotes explore love in all its forms (romantic, familial, and universal), and the quiet truths that hold relationships together.

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Lermontov
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I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I'd know that I tried.
Michelle Branch
Michelle Branch
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If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.
Aaron Neville
Aaron Neville
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Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.
Thomas Boston
Thomas Boston
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
Richard Bach
Richard Bach
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It's the things we love most that destroy us.
Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
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To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.
Michael Card
Michael Card
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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
Walter Kim
Walter Kim
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I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.
Judith McNaught
Judith McNaught
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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
Anne Enright
Anne Enright
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I love food, I love eating.
Robin Gibb
Robin Gibb
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Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour.
Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare
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Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.
Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey
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In the end, passion and hard work beat out natural talent.
Pete Docter
Pete Docter
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Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it.
Gary Wihak
Gary Wihak
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What the eyes see, the heart must believe.
Dai Vernon
Dai Vernon
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In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.
Caroline Baker
Caroline Baker
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Put others before yourself. unselfish love. do unto others as you would have done to you.
Jessica Chastain
Jessica Chastain
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If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.
Tim Keddie
Tim Keddie
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Let go of the past, of the things I wanted, of the people I loved, and move forward.
Devon Monk
Devon Monk
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Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is let someone love you.
NR Hart
NR Hart
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True love is your soul's recognition of its counterpoint in another.
Queen Wilson
Queen Wilson
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Take my will, and make it Thine. It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.
Frances Ridley Havergal
Frances Ridley Havergal
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I love Australia - I think.
Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries
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My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim, The tables of the Torah, The scrolls of the Quran. My creed is Love; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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The night has a thousand eyes. And the day but one: Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one: Yet the light of a whole life dies. When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
Francis William Bourdillon
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Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.
Carla De Laurentiis
Carla De Laurentiis
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I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too. They could have painted with white because there were white stones all over the ground, but no, they chose to paint with black in the dark.
Pierre Soulage
Pierre Soulage
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I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.
Ricohiro Issu
Ricohiro Issu
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Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.
Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick
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I know my heart will never be the same But I'm telling myself I'll be okay.
Sara Evans
Sara Evans
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Jean Anouilh
Jean Anouilh
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Sherlock and Watson are a love story.
Martin Freeman
Martin Freeman
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The soul whispers what the heart desires. Listen to your soul, and you'll hear it whisper my name.
George Wilson
George Wilson
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A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore
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Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars. Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
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Turn off your brain and turn on your heart.
Axwell
Axwell
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Only unfulfilled love can be romantic.
Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem
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You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart.
JoJo Palmer
JoJo Palmer
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There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.
Alice von Hildebrand
Alice von Hildebrand
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Food is a passion. Food is love.
Hector Elizondo
Hector Elizondo
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I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.
Paul Washer
Paul Washer
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If you turn yourself into someone everyone can like, you'll probably end up not liking yourself much. If everyone in the world loves you, then really nobody does.
Anna Havelka Griggs
Anna Havelka Griggs
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My mouth says, "I'm ok." My fingers text, "I'm fine." My heart says, "I'm broken.
Me
Me
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Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten.
David Gemmell
David Gemmell
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Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature and with each other and save us from the devastating effects of environmental destruction and climate change
Unknown
Unknown
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When you love someone, it's never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart.
Elizabeth Chandler
Elizabeth Chandler
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Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
Michael Novak
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