Love Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

361 Love Quotes
“One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall; A mighty love within my breast has grown, Unseen, unspoken, and of no one known; And of my sweet, who gave it, least of all. [Fr., Ma vie a son secret, mon ame a son mystere: Un amour eternel en un moment concu. La mal est sans remede, aussi j'ai du le taire, Et elle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.]”
Alexis Felix Arvers Quotes
Source: Sonnet, translated by Joseph Knight in "The Athenoeum", Jan. 13, 1906
“Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sum what is light; Ask what is darkness of the night; Ask sin of what may be forgiven; Ask what is happiness of heaven; Ask what is folly of the crowd; Ask what is fashion of the shroud; Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss; Ask of thyself what beauty is.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. A Party and Entertainment)
“I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. A Party and Entertainment)
“Love spends his all, and still hath store.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. A Party and Entertainment)
“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. Alcove and Garden)
“Could I love less, I should be happier now.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea)
“The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea)
“How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain Unravelled from the trembling main And threading the eye of a yellow star:-- So many time do I love again.”
Thomas Lovell Beddoes Quotes
Source: How Many Times
“If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.”
Mrs. Aphra Johnson Behn Quotes
Source: And Forgive Us Our Trespasses
“My heart I fain would ask thee What then is Love? say on. "Two souls and one thought only Two hearts that throb as one." [Ger., Mein Herz ich will dich fragen, Was ist denn Liebe, sag? "Zwei Seelen und ein Gedanke, Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag."”
E.F.J. von Munch Bellinghausen ("Friedrich Halm") Quotes
Source: Der Sohn der Wildniss (act II), translation by W.H. Charlton
“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Hebrews (ch. XII, v. 6-7)
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
Bible Quotes
Source: I John (ch. IV, v. 18)
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
Bible Quotes
Source: John (ch. XV, v. 13)
“Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Romans (ch. XIII, v. 10)
“Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt.. that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.”
Helen Adams Keller Quotes
“Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.”
Anonymous Quotes
“Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.”
Anonymous Quotes
“Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.”
Anonymous Quotes
“Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion.”
Anonymous Quotes
“Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.”
Anonymous Quotes
“Love your friend with his faults.”
Anonymous Quotes
“Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love that we find the greatest of strengths and the deepest of sorrows. Love can seem to be so fleeting and unachievable yet it remains well within our reach if we only learn how to embrace it's power. To experience true love, we must be willing to open ourselves up and sacrifice part of our heart and part of our soul. We must be willing to give of ourselves freely, and we must be willing to suffer. It is only when we expose our inner selves to the white hot flame of rejection, that love can burn so brightly as to join to souls, melding the two into one, creating a bond that joins forever. It is from this bond that we draw strength eternal and power ever lasting. It is in this thing that we call love that we find the means to achieve greatness, both in ourselves and in our lives.”
Anonymous Quotes
“Love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my shield.”
Anonymous Quotes
“Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.”
Henry Van Dyke Quotes
“Love conquers all, and let us yield to it. —Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori”
Publius Vergilius Maro Vergil, Virgil Quotes