Quotes About Love

Love can pick you up and love can throw you down. As can be seen in this collection of wonderful quotes about love.

Humanity has been writing and speaking about the ups and downs of love since we gained the ability of speech I'm sure!

And yet Love is still a mystery, a wonder, a challenge, a joy and a thousand other things.

I hope these quotes about love will help you find the right words to reflect which aspect of love you're dealing with right now...

I've divided the quotes about love into different categories...

You can also enjoy some more general quotes about love below...

Enjoy!

Funny Love Quotes

Cute Love Quotes

Sweet Love Quotes

Broken Heart Quotes

Breakup Quotes

Lost Love Quotes

I Miss You Quotes

Forgiveness Quotes

Quotes About Love

"What is love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul."
(Victor Hugo)

"Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall."
(Anonymous)

"Once in a while, Right in the middle of an ordinary life, Love gives us a fairy tale."
(Anonymous)

"All's fair in love and war."
(Francis Edward Smedley)

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
(Plato)

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
(Lord Byron)

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
(Mother Teresa)


"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."
(J. D. Salinger)

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
(Erich Fromm)

"We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find."
(Anonymous)

"Love is like a war. Easy to begin, hard to end."
(Ancient Proverb)

"Love... What is love? Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be."
(Chris Moore)

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

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
(Anonymous)

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life."
(Pablo Picasso)

"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself."
(Leo Buscaglia)

"One doesn't fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."
(Karl Menninger)

"Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work."
(Vincent Van Gogh)

"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense."
(Helen Rowland)

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
(Woodrow Wyatt)

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
(W.H. Auden)

"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
(Saint Thomas Aquinas)

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
(William Blake)

“Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.”
(Anonymous)

Well there you have it! Be sure to check out the other love quotes sections. Also if you've just broken up with that special someone or are looking to find them... Here are some really great tips!

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