Love and romantic quotes

“Age after age, when the wick of Righteousness burns low, the Avatar comes yet once again to rekindle the torch of Love and Truth.”

Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

George Orwell book 1984

“We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter

“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“One love, one heart, one destiny.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not…”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“We do not conquer the lands, we conquer the hearts.”

Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan

“Before you judge me, try hard to love me,
Look within your heart then ask,
Have you seen my childhood?”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

“Love lives forever.”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

“A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skillful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well—this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection, and of sociality as a whole.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”

Chester Bennington (1976–2017) American singer-songwriter