Love Quotes Collection - 199 Romantic Love Quotations

Here is a collection of romantic love quotes from famous authors, & other romantic sources. These love quotes are simply for showing your love. Scroll down to see the romantic love quotes.

Love Quotes

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. - Helen Rowland
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face. - National Lampoon
Every man loves two women; one is the creation of his imagination, and the other is not yet born. - Khalil Gibran
Even when I glimpse you for a moment, my tongue is stilled as speech deserts me, while a delicate fire is beneath my skin. - Sappho
Don’t spend your life with someone you can live with - spend it with someone you can’t live without. - Anon
Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. - Leo Buscaglia
How can you tell the sun not to shine, when clouds exist. How can you ask leaves not to fall when wind exists. How can you tell me not to fall in love when you exist. - Unknown
He is not a lover who does not love forever. - Euripides
Happiness is being married to your best friend. - Anon
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. - Robert Browning
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling love. - Albert Einstein
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend". - Anon
From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love. - Hesiod
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. - Paul Boese
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland
Don’t frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile. - Unknown
Don’t compare our love to the flowers that only bloom on summer, instead, compare it to the river that flows forever. - Unknown
Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. - Yogi Desai
Destiny decides who you meet in life but its only your heart that can decide who gets to stay in your life. - Unknown
A ring is round, it turns forever and that’s how long we’ll be together! - Unknown
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. - Clarence Thomas
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. - Anonymous
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that every woman ought to know. - Mistinguett

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. - Bil Keane
You’re nothing short of my everything. - Ralph Block
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. - William Shakespeare
Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love, though I’d stepped in it a few times. - Anonymous
Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything. - E E cummings
Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. - Unknown
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. - Rose Franken
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering: and I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was love. - Saint John of the Cross i saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering: and i saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was love. - saint john of the cross > > i saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering: and i saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was love. - saint john of the cross i saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering: and i saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was love. - saint john of the cross > > >
All my soul follows you, love encircles you and I live in being yours. - Robert Browning
All I need is my one star in the sky to wish for you everday. - Anon
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. - Unknown
You know it’s love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. - Unknown
You know it’s love when the tiny details about another person, ones that are insignificant to most people, seem fascinating and incredible to you. - Anon
You know it’s love when forever is not long enough. - Unknown
You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. - Jean Zheng
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. - Jonathan Carroll
You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. - Anon
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. - Wayne Dyer
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. - Amy Carmichael
You are just like a Rose, a lesson of beauty, to whom a memory, but forever remembered - A. Neilen
I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. - Unknown
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserved it. - Kyle Schmidt
I have never regretted falling in love with anyone. I have lived and learned from everyone I know, and loved. I would not change a thing. - Nancy Williams
I give you all my love because I truly love you, but I can’t give you my soul and my heart because you’ll just break it apart. - Unknown
I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. - Unknown
I don’t wish to be everything to everyone rather i would like to be something to someone. - Unknown
I don’t regret the things I have done or the things I have chosen not to do because what ever I’ve done, I must have done something right because I ended up with you. - Unknown
I don’t need to be wanted, I want to be needed. - Unknown
I do not want to make reasons for you to stay, only reasons for you to return. - Jonivan
I desire nothing more than to be in your heart until forever dies. - Unknown
Words sound stupid -- look into my eyes - Anonymous
With every kiss, I feel closer to you. So close in fact, I shall kiss you again. - Unknown
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. - Unknown
Who, being loved, is poor? - Oscar Wilde
Where there is no love put love, and you will find love. - A. Sachs
When I first met you I was afraid to like you, now that I like you I’m afraid to love you, now that I love you I’m afraid to lose you. - Unknown
Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same. - Emily Bronte
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. - Unknown
We’ve grown to be one soul - two parts; our lives so intertwined that when some passion stirs your heart, I feel the quake in mine. - Gloria Gaither
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way. - Marlin Finch Lupus
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier
We cannot beg someone to stay if they want to leave and be with someone else. We have to admit that love doesn’t give us the license to own a person. This is what love means...sacrifice. - Unknown
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. - Fredrich Halm
True love stories never have endings. - Unknown
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. - Anne-Sophie Swetchine
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. - William M. Thackeray
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert A. Heinlein
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. - Rabbi J. Gordon
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. - Lynda Barry
Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. - Leo Buscaglia
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. - William M. Thackeray
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. - Mark Twain
To be in Love is the best way to see the life at it’s best! - Unknown
To be able to say how much love, is love but little. - Petrarch
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. - Henry Van Dyke
There’s only one place in the world I call home, and it’s because you’re there. - Unknown
There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. - W. Somerset Maugham
There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving. - Aldous Huxley
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. - Vincent Van Gogh
There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow but the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work. - Unknown
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - G. K. Chesterton
The virtue of true love is not finding the perfect person, but loving the imperfect person perfectly. - Unknown
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. - Anais Nin
The less we look with our eyes, the more we will see with our hearts. - Lyndsey Albrecht
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. - W. Somerset Maugham
The heart is on the left but always right. - Unknown
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re still alive. - O.A. Battista
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. - Unknown
That best portion of a good man’s life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. - William WordsWorth
Sometimes somebody says something really small and it just fits into this empty place in your heart. - Unknown
Sometimes it’s hard to love someone because you’re so afraid of losing them. - Jean Zheng
Sometimes I wonder if life is really worth it, then I look at your smile and I know it is. - Anon
Someone has stolen my heart and you are the highest on my list of suspects. - Unknown
Some joys are better expressed in silence as a smile holds more meaning than words. I was asked if i enjoy having you in my life..I just smiled! - Unknown
Shake hands and rancor will disappear. Give presents to each other and love each other and enmity will disappear. - Muhammad (PBUH)
Romance is like chess-one false move and you’re mated. - Unknown
Perhaps LOVE is the process of me leading you gently back to yourself. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. - Douglas Yates
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. - John Harrigan
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. - sophocles >
One must learn to love and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it and the journey is always towards the other soul - D. H. Lawrence
One does not fall ’in’ or ’out’ of love. One grows in love. - Leo Buscaglia
One day you will ask me which is more important? my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. - Khalil Gibran
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charles M. Schulz
Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them. - Unknown
Never underestimate the amazing power of love to change hearts and mindsets. Love can even give fresh inspiration to tackle what seems to be impossible. - Unknown
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. - Alan Watts
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. - William Penn
More than kisses, letters mingle souls. - John Donne
Loving you is like breathing, how can I stop. - Unknown
Love leads to devotion and devotion is the key to success. - Anonymous
Love knows not its depth till the hour of separation. - Khalil Gibran
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh
Love is when you look into someone’s eyes, and see everything you need. - Unknown
Love is when you give 60% and take 40%. - Unknown
Love is trembling happiness. - Khalil Gibran
Love is timeless, it is the memory of past, the happiness of today and the promise of tomorrow. - Unknown
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken
Love is the only disease that makes you feel better. - Sam Shepard
Love is the fairest flower that blooms in God’s Garden. - Anon
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert A. Heinlein
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. - Henry Van Dyke
You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
That best portion of a good man’s life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth
In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. - Rich Cannarella
When I first met you I was afraid to like you, now that I like you I’m afraid to love you, now that I love you I’m afraid to lose you. - Unknown
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. - Douglas Yates
I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. - Unknown
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. - Paul Boese
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all. - Toni Morrison
Love is not love until love’s vulnerable. - Theodore Roethke
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. - William Shakespeare
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. - Bette Davis
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. - Rabbi J. Gordon
Love is not about who you live with.. its about who you can’t live without. - Aesop
Love is more easily demonstrated than defined. - Anon
Love is like standing in wet cement , the longer you stay the harder to leave and u can never leave without leaving your marks behind. - Unknown
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. - Unknown
Love is like a violin, the music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. - Unknown
Love is like a tranquil breeze that sweeps over my soul making me whole. - Unknown
Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours and reflecting each other’s love you see infinity. - Leo Buscaglia
Love is like a bus, if you miss it, don’t worry, you’ll catch another one. - Unknown
Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts! - Unknown
Love is giving and sometimes giving means giving in. - William Oak
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. - Alexander Smith
Love is being stupid together. - J. Paul Getty
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. - Robert Frost
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. - Anon
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov
Love is a trick of the heart to fool the mind. - Unknown
Love is a science; It is all about passionate chemistry, dimensionless physics with a bit of biology thrown in. - Unknown
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world. - Bertrand Russell
Love is a flower and you its only seed. - Amanda McBroom
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love creates an ’us’ without destroying a ’me’. - Leo Buscaglia
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. - Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. - Unknown
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
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. - David Grayson
Living without you takes a lot of getting used to; you’re a hard habit to break. - Unknown
Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. - Victor Hugo
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. - William Shakespeare
Kiss: A contraction of the mouth due to an enlargement of the heart. - Anon
Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you. - Anon
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde
Just because somebody doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have. - Unknown
It is not that i’m afraid to die, it is that if i die who will love you as i do. - Unknown
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. - Friedrich Nietzsche
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. - Mother Teresa
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all - Samuel Butler
Is that love i see in your eyes, or merely a reflection of mine? - Unknown
Is not this the true romantic feeling--not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you? - Thomas Wolfe
In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. - Rich Cannarella
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing. - Mignon McLaughlin
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist`s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. - Marc Chagall
In love there are two things : bodies and words. - Alan Watts love there are two things : bodies and words. - alan watts >
Immature love says: ’I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ’I need you because I love you.’ - Erich Fromm
If you truely love something, let it go, it’ll come back if and when the time is right. - Katie Schrimsher
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. - Michel de Montaigne
If you have it [Love], you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have. - Alice James
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. - Emmet Fox
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. - Oscar Wilde
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. - Unknown
If The Only Possible Way We Can Be Together Is In My Dreams, Then I’ll Sleep Forever. - Unknown
If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest. - Unknown
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? - Unknown
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. - Lynda Barry