„If I know what love is, it is because of you.“
— Hermann Hesse, book Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
Valentine's Day quotes
A collection of quotes on the topic of for him, anniversary, for her, romantic.
Best valentine's day quotes
„There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.“
— George Sand French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin 1804 - 1876
„Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.“
— William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
Variant: Love all, trust a few.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
„We accept the love we think we deserve.“
— Stephen Chbosky, book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
„So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.“
— Paulo Coelho, book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
„It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
„One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.“
— Paulo Coelho, book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128
„A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.“
— Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors 1943 - 1971
„Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken.“
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
Anonymous advertising copywriter for Menards chain of hardware stores (2000), according to Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/20/be-yourself
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„All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.“
— Charles M. Schulz American cartoonist 1922 - 2000
„If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.“
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet laureate 1809 - 1892
„To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.“
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
„Why fit in when you were born to stand out?“
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
„You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.“
— Barbara De Angelis American psychologist 1951
Variant: You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Source: Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul
— Robert Fulghum American writer 1937
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)
„Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable.“
— Neil Gaiman English fantasy writer 1960
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.
„If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.“
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
— Helen Keller American author and political activist 1880 - 1968
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
„One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.“
— Seneca the Younger Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4 - 65 BC
„It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.“
— Vladimir Nabokov, book Lolita
Source: Lolita
— Oprah Winfrey American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist 1954
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.
„For it is in giving that we receive.“
— Francis of Assisi Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order 1182 - 1226
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
Variant: You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
„Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.“
— William Shakespeare, book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
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
„Love is the greatest refreshment in life“
— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973
„Without love, there's nothing without love.“
— Jon Bon Jovi American singer and musician 1962
Without Love
Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)
„There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
— Thomas Merton Priest and author 1915 - 1968
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
„The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.“
— Albert Ellis American psychologist 1913 - 2007
„Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.“
— Robert Browning English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812 - 1889
„Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.“
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
frequently attributed to Lennon, but entirely unsourced
Disputed
— Henry Van Dyke American diplomat 1852 - 1933
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)
„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)
„No matter where you go, there you are“
— Yogi Berra American baseball player, manager, coach 1925 - 2015
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
„Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.“
— Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963
As quoted in a review of A Swinger of Birches (1957) by Sydney Cox in Vermont History, Vol. 25 (1957), p. 355
1950s
„I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning English poet, author 1806 - 1861
„Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.“
— Jodi Picoult, book Second Glance
Source: Second Glance
„The giving of love is an education in itself.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
„The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.“
— Rohinton Mistry, book Family Matters
Source: Family Matters
„If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?“
— Lily Tomlin American actress, comedian, writer, and producer 1939
Contributions of Jane Wagner
Source: Many Moons
„The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.“
— Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher 1623 - 1662
Variant: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Source: The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent
„There is no instinct like that of the heart.“
— George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824
„My best friend is one who brings out the best in me“
— Henry Ford American industrialist 1863 - 1947
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
„Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.“
— Fernando Pessoa Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher 1888 - 1935
„You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.“
— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962
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.“
— André Breton French writer 1896 - 1966
Source: Mad Love
„Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.“
— Zelda Fitzgerald Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1900 - 1948
Variant: nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.
„Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.“
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
„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
„All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” andre breton“
— André Breton French writer 1896 - 1966
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.“
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Bye and Bye
Source: Bob Dylan - Love and Theft: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
„I love her and that's the beginning of everything…“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald American novelist and screenwriter 1896 - 1940
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
„Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!“
— Robert Browning, Men and Women
"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.“
— William Goldman, book The Princess Bride
Source: The Princess Bride
„There is no remedy for love but to love more.“
— Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862
Variant: The only remedy for love is to love more.
„When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.“
— Paulo Coelho, book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
„When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.“
— Elizabeth Bowen, book A World of Love
Source: A World of Love
„True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.“
— Nicole Richie American television personality, musician, actress, and author 1981
„How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning English poet, author 1806 - 1861
Source: Selected Poems
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
„Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.“
— Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014
„Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.“
— Zora Neale Hurston American folklorist, novelist, short story writer 1891 - 1960
„Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous“
— Susan Sontag American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933 - 2004
„To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.“
— Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
Lord Goring, Act III
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
„Love is an action, never simply a feeling.“
— Bell Hooks American author, feminist, and social activist 1952
„Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.“
— Henry Kissinger United States Secretary of State 1923
„Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.“
— Jean De La Fontaine French poet, fabulist and writer. 1621 - 1695
„There is no escape if love is not there“
— Elizabeth George Speare, book The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
„If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.“
— Haruki Murakami, book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
„If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.“
— Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014
„Life is the flower for which love is the honey.“
— Victor Hugo French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802 - 1885
„Life is an adventure in forgiveness.“
— Norman Cousins American journalist 1915 - 1990
15 April 1978.
Saturday Review
„To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.“
— Pablo Neruda Chilean poet 1904 - 1973
„It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.“
— Salvador Dalí Spanish artist 1904 - 1989
„A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.“
— Ingrid Bergman Film actress from Sweden 1915 - 1982
"Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994
„Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.“
— Paulo Coelho, book Aleph
Source: Aleph