Love Quotes

Love Quotes

“But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.”
-Jessica, “The Merchant of Venice”

Of all the human emotions and ideals, love is the most talked about, most studied, most written and of course, most quoted on. Love quotes are as plentiful as roses on Valentine's Day, as numerous as the stars in the heavens, and as abundant as pebbles on a beach. For the hopeless romantic in you, here are some love quotes you can sigh to the object of your affection or pen on a scrap of paper to be anonymously addressed:

  1. "Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." -St. Augustine
  2. "Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" -Erich Fromm
  3. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” -Elizabeth Barret Browning
  4. “My love is like a red, red rose.” -Robert Burns
  5. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller
  6. "In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." -Mignon McLaughlin
  7. "You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen
  8. “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” -Thomas Haynes Bayly
  9. “The courses of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare
  10. “Love means never having to say you're sorry.” -Erich Segal
  11. “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” -Barbara De Angelis
  12. “Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.” -Barbara Johnson
  13. “There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.” -George Sand
  14. “If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.” -Richard Bach
  15. “To the world you may be one person,but to one person you may be the world.” -Bill Wilson
  16. “The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” -G.K. Chesterton
  17. “Love is more than a feeling. It's a state of mind.” -Lisa Grude
  18. “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” -Charlie Brown
  19. “Love fails, only when we fail to love.” -J. Franklin
  20. “All's fair in love and war.” -Francis Edwards