Love Quotes
Huge list of some great quotes from your favorite people, movies, and shows.
Here are some great quotes for you to enjoy.
List of quotes to use from shows and movies
I love coming up with cheesy quotes from shows and movies to put in cards and emails. Life goes so quick but it is still a good idea to put together a nice quotes list. Here are some Love quotes items I have now:
- Strong women quotes: a round-up of the top quotes from powerful women everywhere.
- "Love is the most beautiful thing to have, hardest thing to earn and most painful thing to lose."
- “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
Marilyn Monroe -
- “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
- William W. Purkey - I feel great lucky everyday when i’m with you
- Don’t say you love me unless you really mean it, because I might do something crazy like believe it
- Whatever the world moves us away your name will remain chiseled in my heart
- A relationship where you can sit around doing nothing, but still have fun cause you’re together = priceless
- If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I’m I had never lived without you
- “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
— James Baldwin - “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
— Lucille Ball - “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke - “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt - “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato - “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson - “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller - "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
- — Victor Hugo
- "All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love."
- — Leo Tolstoy
- "And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God."
- — Les Miserables
- "I'm much more me when I'm with you."
- — (Unknown)
- "It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company."
- — Colin Firth
- "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."
- — Helen Keller
- "To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything."
- — T. Tolis
- "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
- "In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy."
- — Theodor Reik
- "The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that."
- — Woody Allen
- "There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'"
- — Tom Hanks
- "I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow."
- — Leo Christopher
- "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
- — A. A. Milne
- "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
- ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
- "I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone."
- — Lord of The Rings
- "You are my best friend, my human diary and my other half. You mean the world to me andI LOVE YOU."
- — (Unknown)
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- "If I know what love is, it is because of you."
- — Herman Hesse
- "Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."
- — Anna (Julia Roberts) toWilliam (Hugh Grant) in Notting Hill
- "I choose you. And I'll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I'll keep choosing you."
- — (Unknown)
- "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
- ― Friedrich Nietzsche
- "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
- — When Harry Met Sally
- "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
- ― Plato
- "I realized I was thinking of you, and I began to wonder how long you'd been on my mind. Then it occurred to me: Since I met you, you've never left."
- — (Unknown)
- "Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime."
- — Bette Davis
- "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
- — Lao-Tzu
- "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."
- — H. L. Mencken
- "Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive."
- — (Unknown)
- "We are shaped and fashioned by those we love."
- — Geothe
- "When love is not madness it is not love."
- ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- "You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I LOVE YOU."
- — Pride & Prejudice
- "Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused."
- ― Paulo Coelho
- "Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
- ― Pablo Neruda
- "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
- ― Sophocles
- "I wish I could turn back the clock. I'd find you sooner and love you longer."
- — (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."
- — Julia Roberts
- "The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return."
- — "Unforgettable with Love" by Natalie Cole
- "I hope you know that every time I tell you to get home safe, stay warm, have a good day, or sleep well what I am really saying is I love you. I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words' meanings. "
- — Open-365
- "I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear."
- — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."
- — Oscar Wilde
- "And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make."
- — Paul McCartney
- “Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.”
Marianne Williamson - “Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.”
Marianne Williamson - “In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.”
Marianne Williamson - "One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without and find that breath is of little consequence."
- Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever -
- "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
- Dr. Seuss - “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz - “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Herman Hesse - “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
— Roy Croft - “Love is a friendship set to music.”
— Joseph Campbell - "There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
- Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever - "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
- Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets - "Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave."
- A.A. Milne - "She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal."
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins - "For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."
- Stephanie Perkins, Anna And The French Kiss - "They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay - "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."
- Elinor Glyn - "So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
- Paulo Coehlo -
- "So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me ... every day."
- Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook - "Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it."
- Mitch Albom - "One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love."
- Sophocles - “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
— Oscar Wilde - “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
— Henry Miller - “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 - “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
— Dr. Seuss - “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran - “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson - "Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time."
- Haruki Murakami - "Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it."
- Nicholas Sparks, A Walk To Remember - "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves - "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you ... I could walk through my garden forever."
- Alfred Tennyson - "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
- Plato - "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
- Albert Einstein - "You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."
- Oscar Wilde - "If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights - "We loved with a love that was more than love."
- Edgar Allan Poe - "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream - "Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you."
- Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games - "As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."
- John Green, The Fault In Our Stars - "So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist - "There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement and acceptance."
- John Lennon - "Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful."
- Milan Kundera - "To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget."
- Arundhati Roy, The Cost Of Living - "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
- Nicole Krauss, The History Of Love - “Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
Marianne Williamson - “Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
— Vincent Van Gogh - “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
— Albert Ellis - “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
— Benjamin Franklin - “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr. - “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”
Marianne Williamson - “We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.”
Marianne Williamson - "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever."
- — The Notebook
- "I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes."
- — (Unknown)
- “Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.”
Marianne Williamson - “It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.”
Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" - “And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.”
Marianne Williamson - “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
Marianne Williamson - “Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.”
Marianne Williamson - “There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”
Marianne Williamson - “You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. ”
Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" - “We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?”
Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" - Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts … good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with. —Michelle Obama
- We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced. — Malala Yousafzai
