50 Famous Love Quotes

Did saying "I love you" suddenly become difficult? Love quotes help get the difficult emotions across in the most prolific and touching way. These passionate and romantic love quotes tug heartstrings, making it easier to express for the ardent lover. Incorporate these quotes of love in your cards and love letters when celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's Day or any special occassion.

Famous Love Quotes

1. "Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." - Bruce Lee

2. " At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." - Plato

3. "We were together, I have forgotten the rest." - Walt Whitman

4. "A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous." - Ingrid Bergmen

5. "What is a friend?
A single soul in two bodies." - Aristotle

6." I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun." - Charles Hanson Towne

7. "I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me." - Honore de Balzac, letter to Evelina Hanska, June 1836

8. "Love is a friendship set to music." - E. Joseph Cossman

9. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."- Aristotle

10. "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Robert Frost

11. "I love her and that's the beginning of everything." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. "Come live in my heart and pay no rent." - Samuel Lover

13. "If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." - Anonymous

14. "The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."- George Moore

15. "I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain." - John Keats

16. "What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

17. "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." - Judy Garland

18. "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss

19. "Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return." - Peace Pilgrim

20. "Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections." - Anonymous

21. " The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." - Stephen King

22. "Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning

23. "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

24. My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite.
- William Shakespeare

25. I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
- Pixie Foudre

26. "Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day." - Richard Crashaw

27. "I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you." - Roy Croft

28. " "Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over." - Anonymous

29. "Love is when you're kept up all night thinking of him, and then when you fall asleep, you find him in your dreams." - Anonymous

30. "I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you" - Ben Folds

31. " "Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart." - Kay Knudsen

32. " Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends"

33. "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones

34."Love me and the world is mine." - David Reed

35. "For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."
- Rosemonde Gerard

36. "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs." - William Shakespeare

37. "The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." - Josiah G. Holland

38. It is the things in common
that make relationships enjoyable,
but it is the little differences
that make them interesting.
- Todd Ruthman

39. "Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
-St. Augustine

40. "The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."- Lawrence Durrell

41. "You call it madness, but I call it love."-Don Byas

42. "We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives."
-Anonymous

43. "The heart has reasons that reason cannot know." - Pascal

44. "To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." - William M. Thackeray

45. Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
- Alexander Pope

46. There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

47. "Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss." - John Keats

48."A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.' - Rupert Brooke.

49. Of all the earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart." - Henry Ward Beecher

50. "Life is a flower of which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo