A collection of quotes on the topic of romantic, love, for her, for him.
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
Variant: Love all, trust a few.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Variant: The only remedy for love is to love more.
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Variant: And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.
Source: Les Misérables
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Variant: You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
Variant: Everyone wants 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.
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
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
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.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable.”
The character "Rose Walker" in The Sandman #65
Context: Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.
“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life”
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
frequently attributed to Lennon, but entirely unsourced
Disputed
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
Source: The Alchemist
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
“No matter where you go, there you are”
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
Variant: You want my opinion? 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.
Source: True Love (1998)
“Without love, there's nothing without love.”
Without Love
Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)
“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”
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
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
“I love her and that's the beginning of everything…”
Variant: I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
“For it is in giving that we receive.”
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
"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.”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Lord Goring, Act III
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
“You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.”
Variant: You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Source: Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul
“Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken.”
Anonymous advertising copywriter for Menards chain of hardware stores (2000), according to Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/20/be-yourself
Misattributed
“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”
Variant: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Source: The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent
“Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
Variant: nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.
“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
“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
As quoted in a review of A Swinger of Birches (1957) by Sydney Cox in Vermont History, Vol. 25 (1957), p. 355
1950s
“The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.”
“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”
15 April 1978.
Saturday Review
“The important thing is to be nothing.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“Because I loved myself, I was loved.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”
"Princess Diana: 10 most inspiring quotes from the 'people's princess'", Hello Magazine, Daily News (1 July 2015)
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18
“To live is to not know that one is living”
Diary (20 April, 1930), quoted in Afinado desconcerto (2002), p. 262
Context: Sometimes I start looking at the mirror and examining myself, feature by feature: eyes, mouth, shape of the forehead, eyelids curve, the face line... And this vulgar and hideous-looking, grotesque and miserable amalgam, would it know how to do verses? Oh, no! There is something else … but what? After all, why think? To live is to not know that one is living... Why don't I forget that I am living... to live?
“These are images of what love is about.”
"How Happiness Happpens", p. 61
Awareness (1992)
Context: Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.
“I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.”
That frightens all the childish
And extinguishes fear in the wise.
§ 26
Major attributed works, Ratnāvalī (Precious Garland)
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
Time Is
Undated
Source: Time Is...
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love,
Time is Eternity. (Music and Other Poems, 1904)
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
Source: Family Matters
“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”
Contributions of Jane Wagner
Source: Many Moons
“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”
“My best friend is one who brings out the best in me”
Actually due to Harris Weinstock: "My best friend is the man who can bring out of me my best, and your best friend is the one who tends to bring out the best in you" (May 1914) Attributed to Henry Ford as early as 1948.
Misattributed
“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”
Variant: Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
Source: Mad Love
“All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” andre breton”
Variant: All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Source: Mad Love
“The future for me is already a thing of the past.”
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Bye and Bye
Source: Bob Dylan - Love and Theft: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”
Source: A World of Love
