The Quote Lab

“I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”― Marilyn Monroe

“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” ― Carl Sagan

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” ― Emily Brontë

“‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” ― Bill Wilson

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”― Joan Crawford

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald

“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” — Orson Welles

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”— James Baldwin 

“You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”― Nicholas Sparks

“True love stories never have endings.” — Richard Bach

“You’re not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense. This girl you met? She isn’t perfect either. The question is whether you’re perfect together.”— Good Will Hunting

“Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.” — Leo Buscaglia

“You have found true love when you realize that you want to wake up beside your love every morning even when you have your differences.” — Unknown

“Be careful of love. It’ll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”― Rick Riordan

“Deep within us — no matter who we are — there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.” — Fred Rogers

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”— Eden Ahbez

“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.” — John Galsworthy

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”— Lucille Ball

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”― James A. Baldwin

“Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end, it’s love and love alone that really matters.” — Tom Robbins

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” — Loretta Young

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” — Morrie Schwartz

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”― Vincent Van Gogh

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

“Till I loved I never lived.”— Emily Dickinson

“Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn’t show on X-rays, but you know it’s there.”— George Burns

“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“My six-word love story: I can’t imagine life without you.” — Anonymous

“When love is not madness it is not love.”― Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“Maybe you don’t need the whole world to love you, you know. Maybe you just need one person.” — The Muppets

“I retain an unalterable affection for you, which neither time nor distance can change.”— George Washington

“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.” — Torquato Tasso

“I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” ― Nicole Krauss

“It is love that makes the impossible possible.” ― Indian Proverb

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” ― Peter Ustinov

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.”― Nicholas Sparks

“There is no remedy for love, but to love more.” — Thoreau

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”— Maya Angelou

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” — Dalai Lama

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”― Cassandra Clare

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” — Nora Ephron

“Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.” ― Anne Campbell

“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.”— Lao Tzu

“A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”― Max Lucado

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”― Ernest Hemingway

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” ― Maya Angelou

“To love one person among this world’s many and to have loved each other deeply for a long while is beautiful.” — Do Jong-Hwan

“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” ― David Wilkerson

“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” — Julia Roberts

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”― Charles Dickens

“He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.” — Japanese proverb

“Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.” — Ray Stannard Baker

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde

“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” — Henry Miller

“Lots of people want 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.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” ― Robert Frost

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” ― Marilyn Monroe

“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.” — Blaise Pascal

“Fortune and love favor the brave.” ― Ovid

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” ― Eva Gabor

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” ― Tom Robbins

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.” ― Reese Witherspoon

“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.” — William Goldman

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”― José N. Harris

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn

“To love is risky. Not to love is foolish.” — Maxime Lagacé

“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald

“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly, and forgive quickly.” — Paulo Coelho

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” — Jimi Hendrix

“Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”― David Byrne

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” — Thomas Fuller

“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.” — Charles Dickens

“If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. … Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” ― Bob Marley

“Even better than being loved is being in love.” ― Naval Ravikant

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.” ― Charles Bukowski

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.” ― 1 John 4:18

“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.” ― Thomas Moore

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

“Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. Today, I choose to give love.” ― Louise Hay

“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” ― Nikki Giovanni

“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” ― Ephesians 4:2

“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” ― Vladimir Nabokov

“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.” ― George Jean Nathan

“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” ― Banana Yoshimoto

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.” ― Paulo Coelho

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”― Chuck Klosterman

“A husband and wife are one soul, separated only through their descent to this world. When they are married, they are reunited again.” ― The Zohar

“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.” ― Charles Morgan