Top 100 Love Quotes & Sayings of All Time
The following is Great Quotes users' selection of the Top 100 Love & Romance quotes of all time! This selection process included over four million users submitting their favorite Love Quotes. The top 100 most frequently submitted love quotes make up this list below. They are in no particluar order. Make sure to check them all out, as they are ALL wonderful!
See what users, such as yourself, have ranked as the "Top 100 Love Quotes of all Time" (compilation took place in 2009).
1. "A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous."
Ingrid Bergmen
2. "Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
3. "My night has become a sunny dawn because of you."
Ibn Abbad
4. "In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
Margaret Anderson
6. "Love is the beauty of the soul."
Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
7. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
Aristotle
Aristotle
10. "In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life."
Bliss and Cerney
11. "Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks..."
John Dunne
12. "What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes..."
Elizabeth Browning
16. "She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudness climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes..."
Lord Byron
19. "You're nothing short of my everything."
Ralph Block
Ralph Block
24. "I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path."
Andre Gide
25. "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
Robert Heinlein
26. "Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
28. "It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands."
Jaka
30. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
31. "... See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me."
Gretchen Kemp
32. "When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness."
Amy Lowell
34. "Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."
Christopher Marlowe
36. "In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
Mignon McLaughlin
37. "We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses."
Pablo Neruda
38. "The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it...you and you alone make me feel that I am alive...Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."
George Moore
41. "I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal."
Vita Sackville-West
42. "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
43. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
45. "Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart."
Robert Sexton
48. "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
Alexander Smith
49. "I am my beloved, and my beloved is me."
Song of Solomon
50. "Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves, Her mouth delicious as a ripened mango."
Srzgarakarika
52. "Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire..."
A.C. Swinburne
54. "Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again."
Author Unknown
55. "Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile..."
Author Unknown
56. "I see my fated stars in your eyes. They melt me like the sun does snow."
Author Unknown
57. "The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart."
Author Unknown
58. "To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed."
Author Unknown
59. "If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, I would have the whole night sky in the palm of my hand."
Author Unknown
60. "If you love me only in my dreams, let me be asleep forever."
Author Unknown
61. "Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you."
Author Unknown
62. "Love is a dream that comes alive when we meet."
Author Unknown
63. "The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze."
Author Unknown
65. "Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto."
Lope de Vega
66. "Here are fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you."
Paul Verlaine
67. "When a heart finds another, what's a cloud more or less in the sky?"
Wolf and Page
68. "The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Josiah G. Holland
69. "From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being."
Author Unknown
70. "The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life."
Sir Hugh Walpole
71. "Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."
Erich Fromm
72. "You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
Sam Keen
73. "The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
Victor Hugo
75. "Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."
Germaine De Stael
77. "For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it."
Ivan Panin
78. "Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals."
J. Isham
79. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Lao Tzu
80. "The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss."
Author Unknown
81. "Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
St. Augustine
84. "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
Honore de Balzac
85. "We are all born for love... it is the principle existence and it's only end."
Benjamin Disraeli
87. "Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Elizabeth Browning
88. " When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. "
Dr Seuss
90. "So dear I love him that with him,
All deaths I could endure.
Without him, live no life."
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
91. "Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
Bruce Lee
92. "She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes."
Lord Byron
97. " Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you' re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU... The one who turns to his friends and says, thats her... "
Author Unknown
99. "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love Quotes & Quotes about Love
Welcome to "Love Quotes" where we have thousands of Quotes & Poems that speak only of love and Quotes about Love
Main Love Quotes Topics
What is Love?
Our favorite description of love is from the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin: When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No... don't blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away... (Iannis to Pelagia) Note: there are two versions of this quote, one from the book and a slightly different version from the movie.
Popular Love Topics
Quotes of Love, from the Heart …and the Web
Oh, if we could only all be William Shakespeare. While some of us are blessed with a silver tongue and a flowing pen, others need a little help now and then.
In the old days, finding quotes of love required a trip to the library and pouring through endless books of quotes and prose. It was hit and miss whether you’d ever be able to find what was truly in your heart.
But today, thanks to the Internet and specifically websites devoted to quotes of love, such as: 1-love-quotes.com, you can find the perfect quote for any occasion, whether it is a profession of your undying love, a sentimental toast for a wedding, or a thoughtful line or two for Valentine’s Day.
Of course, romance isn’t a seasonal pursuit. The arrows of love can strike at any time and you can’t always wait around for a holiday to express your feelings. Far better to go online and find the great quotes of love you need any time, day or night.
1-love-quotes.com is a perfect example of how you can find the right quote quickly and easily. Quotes of love are arranged by the type of feeling you’re having. As you know, all expressions of love are not created equally.
If you just want to do a little flirting or show your affection, you don’t want to mistakenly send off a quote that is all about commitment and marriage. If you do, you could accidentally find yourself walking down the aisle, wondering how it all happened.
For those who do want to deepen their commitment and perhaps enter into the holy bonds of matrimony, there’s no shortage of beautiful, thoughtful quotes of love, many from the masters of romance.
Searching for these gems, whether they are cute boyfriend love quotes, sweet love quotes or those of deep yearning and desire, is easy. With just a few quick clicks of a button you can select a genre, scroll through the quotes and choose the one that perfectly captures the very essence of your feelings.
If you’re a romantic but not a sappy romantic, you can find funny love quotes as well that will leave a smile on your loved one’s face while touching their heart. There are really quotes for nearly any stage of love imaginable, from teen love and the love of a husband or wife to the words that perfectly capture the feeling of heartbreak and final goodbyes.
So how do you go about selecting the perfect quotes of love?
Start by searching your heart for how you’re feeling. Is it pleasure or pain? Joy or heartache? Is it a crush or as yet unrequited love? Start looking through the thousands of quotes of love, taking into account your own personality and your way of saying things. If you don’t really appreciate the quotes of love from Robert Browning but love a good punch line instead, don’t go against your instincts. Let your heart guide you to the right quotes of love, not your mind.
If you have a favorite author, celebrity or philosopher, you can also search by their name. A lot of people have a favorite poet or author, such as Lord Byron, Elizabeth Barrett Browning or Ralph Waldo Emerson. Others, like their quotes to be from someone a little more current, going with Robin Williams instead of William Shakespeare.
The good news is there are quotes of love for every occasion and every one. Fortunately, plenty of romantics have walked this world before us—so many that you never really have to be worried about not having the right words.
Love Poems - for Him or for a Girl
Love poems that tug the heart string and ignite the soul
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” may say just what you’re thinking, but if the love of your life knows his or her Shakespeare, you may find yourself all alone and wondering “what light through yonder window breaks.”
That’s because the real line of love spoken by Juliet was actually, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
Thankfully, you don’t have to recall your high school English class to find the perfect love poems. Love poems can easily be found on the Internet these days, and if you go to the right site, you don’t even have to know the author or the poem. All you have to do is punch in the words you remember of your favorite love poems, and voila! – back comes the search result containing the love poems that will make the love of your life swoon and fall madly into your arms.
While you could labor over love poems yourself, trying to convey your deepest feelings, you can let some of the most romantic minds who have ever lived say it for you. Chances are good that if you’re in love, there are already love poems that capture it perfectly in beautiful, thoughtful prose.
Who wouldn’t love to receive a card with one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s classic poems:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Who wouldn’t open their arms and their heart to such a lovely thought? Not only do famous love poems capture the essence of pure love, but they also show that you know your poets and poetry.
Of course, there are plenty of romantic poems from contemporary authors. If “thees” and “thous” aren’t really your speed, you can go with something more modern. As long as there has been love, there have been love poems.
Take for example, the eloquent words of contemporary writer (she’s on Facebook even) Celmarique Swartz:
You came into my life on a simple way
Told me you love me almost everyday
Showed me happiness and made me smile
I started to love you after awhile.
Told me you love me almost everyday
Showed me happiness and made me smile
I started to love you after awhile.
My wish is that our love may never die
I wished that from the day we gave us a try
When I woke up this morning you were on my mind
Love you completely although they say love is blind.
I wished that from the day we gave us a try
When I woke up this morning you were on my mind
Love you completely although they say love is blind.
Forever yours that's how I feel
I trust you completely for real.
I trust you completely for real.
Who says love and romance are dead? As you can see, love poems and the authors who felt so deeply that they took time to labor over each word and phrase, can say so much in so little space.
We are not only blessed that they have helped us express our deepest feelings through their love poems, but that sites exist where these words have been immortalized, so we can all express ourselves, even when we’re momentarily speechless, caught up in a moment of love and longing.
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