“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
Quotes For Him
A collection of quotes on the topic of valentine's day, for him, love, love.
Best quotes for him
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Hermann Hesse book Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Source: Heliogabalus
“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Variant: The only remedy for love is to love more.
“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”
Stephen King book Doctor Sleep
Source: Doctor Sleep
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.
Source: Les Misérables
“We can only learn to love by loving.”
Iris Murdoch book The Bell
The Bell (1958), ch. 19; 2001, p. 219.
Quotes For Him
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Variant: Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
Source: Wuthering Heights
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
A line written by Ono many years before, and quoted by Lennon in December 1980, as quoted in All We Are Saying : The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (2000) by John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, p. 16.
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
James Baldwin book Nobody Knows My Name
"In Search of a Majority: An Address" (Feb 1960); reprinted in Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_My_Name (1961)
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Variant: You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
Variant: Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.
Source: Love and Living
“It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128
“Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”
George Strait (1952) American country music singer, actor and music producer
Variant: Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.
“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.”
Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer
Source: Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
“To love is to will the good of the other.”
Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica
II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
“The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Appears in Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981), "The Beauty"
Also attributed to Rumi (persian mystic and poet).
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Variant: Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Notebook
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
frequently attributed to Lennon, but entirely unsourced
Disputed
“No matter where you go, there you are”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
“To be in company is not to be with someone, but to be in someone.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Estar en compañía no es estar con alguien, sino estar en alguien.
Voces (1943)
“Without love, there's nothing without love.”
Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician
Without Love
Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)
“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American cartoonist
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Variant: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Source: Hamlet
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but you.”
Jane Austen book Persuasion
Variant: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Source: Persuasion
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
"Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"The Threatened", The Book of Sand [El Libro de arena] (1975)
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
Interview by Edward W. Desmond in TIME magazine (4 December 1989)
1980s
“I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”
Eric Rücker Eddison book A Fish Dinner in Memison
A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941)
Context: The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.
“Love life more than the meaning of it.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Los hermanos Karamazov
Source: The Brothers Karamazov (Bratři Karamazovi)
“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
William Shakespeare Twelfth Night
Orsino, Act I, scene i.
Variant: Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
Source: Twelfth Night (1601)
“You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.”
Barbara De Angelis (1951) American psychologist
Variant: You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Source: Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul
“They do not love, that do not show their love.”
William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Variant: They do not love that do not show their love.
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Variant: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Source: The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States
Attributed to Irving as early as 1883. [Hit and miss : a story of real life, Angie Stewart, Manly, Chicago, J.L. Regan, 1883, i, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435018229575?urlappend=%3Bseq=7] However, it does not seem to appear in Irving's known works. Other citations from the same year leave the quotation unattributed. [Henry S. (ed.), Clubb, The Peacemaker and Court of Arbitration, Volume 1, Universal Peace Union, 1883, 125, Philadelphia, https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu84AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA125] [The Australian Women's Magazine and Domestic Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1883), 1883, Melbourne, 435, https://books.google.com/books?id=mq0sAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA435]. A similar passage is found in a pseudonymous novel published two years earlier in 1881: "Julia knew that sacrifices to patience are not in vain. Although they often do not produce the happiness for which they are made, they will, always, flow back and soften and purify the heart of the one who makes them". [Illma, Or, Which was Wife?, Miss, M.L.A., Cornwell & Johnson, 1881, 239, New York, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435017658592?urlappend=%3Bseq=245]
Disputed
“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Variant: Come to finish me off, Sweetheart?
Source: The Hunger Games
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Variant: nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.
“The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful, and so are you”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Source: Beatles Lyrics
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
Variant: Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 11
“It is impossible to love and be wise.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!”
"Fra Lippo Lippi, line 54.
Men and Women (1855)
Variant: Without love, our earth is a tomb
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
Source: The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell book The Conquest of Happiness
Source: 1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
As quoted in a review of A Swinger of Birches (1957) by Sydney Cox in Vermont History, Vol. 25 (1957), p. 355
1950s
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.”
Albert Ellis (1913–2007) American psychologist
“As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Variant: Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
Variant: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6; variant translation: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives sweet thoughts. And from love and sweetness alone can form come: form and civilization.
Context: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives kind thoughts.
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, (1963)
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
"Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy", Joseph P. Lash (1980) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/21/together/
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“I have decided to stick to love… Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The White Company
The White Company (1891)
“The love that is not all pain is not all love.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
El amor que no es todo dolor, no es todo amor.
Voces (1943)