Love Quotes and Poems that you simply adore

Love is hard to put into words, it brings up emotions that run the gamut from agony to ecstasy, and can inspire us to accomplish some of the craziest and most amazing feats. Can't figure out how to express your feelings? Here are some amazing suggestions...

  1. "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

2. "You know when you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." — Dr. Seuss

3. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." — Victor Hugo

4. "All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love." — Leo Tolstoy

5. "Once you truly believe you're worthy of love, you will never settle for anyone's second best treatment." — Charles J. Orlando

6. "When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again." — Albert Einstein

7. "And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God." — Les Miserables

8. "If a thing loves, it is infinite." — William Blake

9. "With love one can live even without happiness." — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 10. "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 

11. "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."  — Helen Keller

12. "A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality." — John Lennon

13. "To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything." — T. Tolis

14. "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

15. "In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy." — Theodor Reik

16. "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

17. "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

18. "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

19. "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

20. "If I know what love is, it is because of you." — Herman Hesse

21. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." ― Friedrich Nietzsche

22. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." ― Plato

23. "We are most alive when we're in love." — John Updike

24. "Love means never having to say you’re sorry." — Ali MacGraw

25.  "People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. " — Nelson Mandela

26. "Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime." — Bette Davis

27. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." — Lao Tzu

28. "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop." — H. L. Mencken

29. "Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one." — Unknown

30. "We are shaped and fashioned by those we love." — Geothe

​31. "When love is not madness it is not love." ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca

32. "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

33. "Love is so short, forgetting is so long." ― Pablo Neruda

34. "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." ― Sophocles

35. "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

36. "The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain." — Jennifer Aniston

37. "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." — Ingrid Bergman

38.  "When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction." — Ginger Rogers

39. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return." — "Unforgettable with Love" by Natalie Cole

40. "I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

41. "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

42. "Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all." — Hemingway

43.  "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." — Charles Schulz

44. "Where there is love there is life." — Mahatma Gandhi

45. "And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make." — Paul McCartney

46. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard

 47. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”       ― Martin Luther King

 48. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

― André Gide

 49. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

 50. “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel

51. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare

 52. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” ― Sarah Dessen

 53. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ― Lao Tzu

 54. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

 55. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” ― Robert Fulghum

 56. “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.” ― Jodi Picoult

 57. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” ― Anaïs Nin