“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle
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100 Love Quotes
A short introduction
Love quotes get used for weddings and captions, which is fine. The better ones also work on a Tuesday, when nobody is watching and you still want language for care, missing someone, or staying.
Here are a hundred lines about love from poets, novelists, and people who wrote letters that outlived them. Some are romantic. Some are about friendship that feels like home. A few are about loving the world without turning it into a slogan.
If you are making a card, a story, or a print, start by reading, not by decorating. The right sentence does most of the work. The design should get out of the way.
FOURQuoteDesigns can turn any quote on this page into four posters. Keep the author's name. That is part of the gift — you are sharing someone else's clear words, not pretending you invented them.
Take what is tender and true. Leave the lines that sound like they were written for a billboard. Love is specific. The quotes worth keeping usually are too.
If you came here for a caption, that is allowed. If you came here because you miss someone, start near the middle and stop when a line feels like a letter you would actually send.
100 quotes
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“A friend is one soul in two bodies.”
Aristotle
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
William Shakespeare
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
William Shakespeare
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden.”
Oscar Wilde
“The heart was made to be broken.”
Oscar Wilde
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
Rumi
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
Rumi
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
Rumi
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
Rumi
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
Rumi
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
Rumi
“Let the beauty we love be what we do.”
Rumi
“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
Rumi
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
Rumi
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.”
Rumi
“Love recognizes no barriers.”
Maya Angelou
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Mother Teresa
“Spread love everywhere you go.”
Mother Teresa
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
Mother Teresa
“Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
Dalai Lama
“The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.”
Dalai Lama
“Love is the absence of judgment.”
Dalai Lama
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Lao Tzu
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
Audrey Hepburn
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Morrie Schwartz
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
Jodi Picoult
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
Roy Croft
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
David Viscott
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
Ann Landers
“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
Eden Ahbez
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
Mother Teresa
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
Peter Ustinov
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
Franklin P. Jones
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle
“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia
“The love of friends is the greatest love.”
C. S. Lewis
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
Rumi
“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day.”
Rumi
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire.”
Bruce Lee
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”
Rupi Kaur
“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”
Brené Brown
“Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself.”
Rumi
“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
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
Walt Whitman
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Robert Frost
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
E. E. Cummings
“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.”
E. E. Cummings
“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”
E. E. Cummings
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo
“We are most alive when we're in love.”
John Updike
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
David Wilkerson
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Dr. Seuss
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
Joseph Campbell
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.”
Madonna
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand
“A simple I love you means more than money.”
Frank Sinatra
“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
Honoré de Balzac
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
Blaise Pascal
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Emily Brontë
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.”
Pablo Neruda
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
Rumi
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
Voltaire
“True love stories never have endings.”
Richard Bach
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.”
Maya Angelou
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Hermann Hesse
“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.”
Leo Christopher
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Stephen Chbosky
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“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
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us.”
Paulo Coelho
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”
Max Muller
“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Come live in my heart and pay no rent.”
Samuel Lover
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
Epictetus
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Epictetus
“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
Epictetus
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
Epictetus
“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
Epictetus
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
Epictetus
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
Epictetus
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.”
Epictetus
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
Epictetus
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