What is love? What is love for you? There is no one answer. Everybody feels and expresses love very differently. Love can be beautiful but also can hurt. Love is like a language – you should be able to speak it correctly to the person you love otherwise you will not feel loved in your relationship. In this post, I´ve collected for you famous what is love quotes.
What Is Love Quotes
Inspirational Love Quotes
1. A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to ‘fall out of love. – Bell Hooks
2. I know that love is real when it’s not convenient when it’s not selfish when it’s challenged, and sometimes even if it’s not reciprocated. – Viola Davis
3. I learned that love is a much more sustainable energy to draw on than hate. – Rose Namajunas
4. I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music. – Enrique Iglesias
5. I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it’s multifaceted. – Sienna Miller
6. I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow put aside red flags. – Eric Close
7. I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice. – Shakira
8. I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It’s shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes. – Guillermo del Toro
9. I think relationships are work, but love is a gift. – Anne Hathaway
10. I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give. – Mortimer Adler
11. In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love. Marla Gibbs
12. Life is a game and true love is a trophy. – Rufus Wainwright
13. Love is a better teacher than duty. – Albert Einstein
14. Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. – Barbara De Angelis
15. Love is a gift. – Kathy Najimy
16. Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form. – Eckhart Tolle
17. Love is a strange emotion. It is ever-evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously. – Randeep Hooda
18. Love is a thing that is full of care and fear. – Ovid
19. Love is all you need. – Paul McCartney
20. Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. – Soren Kierkegaard
21. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit. – Peter Ustinov
22. Love is an energy that exists in itself. It is its own value. – Thornton Wilder
24. Love is like a beautiful flower that I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. – Helen Keller
25. Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. – Michael Novak
26. Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
27. Love is sacrifice. – David Oyelowo
28. Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do. – Josh Billings
29. Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing. – Douglas Horton
30. Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole. – Aristophanes
31. Love is so confusing – you tell a girl she looks great and what’s the first thing you do? Turn out the lights! – Robert Orben
32. Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious and tormented. Love, how can I define it? – Gao Xingjian
33. Love is so much better when you’re not married. – Maria Callas
34. Love is so powerful. It will always show up on time to people who need it most.– Akiane Kramarik
35. Love is so short, forgetting is so long. – Pablo Neruda
36. Love is so simple. – Jacques Prevert
37. Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have. – BeBe Winans
38. Love is something far more than a desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. – Bertrand Russell
39. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. – Gisele Bundchen
40. Love is something that is genuine, and delicate and involves care, passion, and attention, and is entirely different from gifts, balls, jewels, and circumstances. – Rege-Jean Page
41. Love is space and time measured by the heart. – Marcel Proust
42. Love is staying up all night with a sick child – or a healthy adult. – David Frost
43. Love is stillness, and peace of mind. The universe is Love. – Koena Mitra
44. Love is stronger than justice. – Sting
45. Love is such a confusing word. You think I’m joking but I’m not. – Michael Showalter
46. Love is such a fleeting emotion. It’s such a small part of the things you do in your life. – Nellie McKay
47. Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It’s about timing, fate, failure, and redemption. – Jim Sturgess
48. Love is such an objective thing. I mean, I can say I love my family, or I love my Diet Coke. So I guess, in different ways, yeah, I do believe in love. – Emilie de Ravin
49. Love is such that God grants us one person with who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely happens that we don’t. – Ranbir Kapoor
50. Love is suffering. One side always loves more. – Catherine Deneuve
51. Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited. – Duke Ellington
52. Love is sweeping the country. – Ira Gershwin
53. Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone, even more, and leave someone. – Ian Somerhalder
54. 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
55. Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity that nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. – Jose Ortega y Gasset
56. Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. – Wayne Dyer
57. Love is the affinity that links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
58. Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it. – Ray Bradbury
59. Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow. – John Lennon
60. Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
61. Love is the beauty of the soul. – Saint Augustine
62. Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
63. Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. – Diane Ackerman
64. Love is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest. – Henry Van Dyke
65. Love is the big booming beat that covers up the noise of hate. – Margaret Cho
66. Love is the bond between men, the way to teach, and the center of the world. – Jose Marti
67. Love is the bond of perfection. – John Winthrop
68. Love is the capacity to take care, protect, to nourish. – Thich Nhat Hanh
69. Love is the cheapest of religions. – Cesare Pavese
70. Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. – Miguel de Unamuno
71. Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to live, and is prophetic of eternal good. – Petrarch
72. Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. – John Barrymore
73. Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. – H. L. Mencken
74. Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. – Iris Murdoch
75. Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of a parent for a child, for family, for the country. – Jojo Moyes
76. Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man. George Jean Nathan
77. Love is the essence of energy for life. – Shin Min-a
78. Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it. – Emmanuelle Riva
79. Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved. – Jay McInerney
80. Love is the expansion of two natures in such a fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other. – Felix Adler
81. Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, and the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. – Ayn Rand
82. Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk. – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
83. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. – D. H. Lawrence
84. Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow. – John Lennon
85. Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together. – Phil Jackson
86. Love is the funeral of hearts. – Ville Valo
87. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. – Louise L. Hay
88. Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It’s free. – Taraji P. Henson
89. Love is the greatest refreshment in life. – Pablo Picasso
90. Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. – Drew Barrymore
91. Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. – William Penn
92. Love is the highest frequency we can operate on. – Raheem DeVaughn
93. Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts. – Marianne Williamson
94. Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. – Plato
95. Love is the last relay and ultimate outpost of eternity. – Dante Gabriel Rossetti
96. Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.– Ben Hecht
97. Love is the main ingredient. If you don’t love, you can’t love, and you can’t do good things. – Rita Marley
98. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, hatred, jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
99. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in a relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, and mercy in a relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
100. Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable, and noble kind of love. – Delmore Schwartz
101. Love is the most ferocious and strongest force on the planet. – Greg Cipes
102. Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. Yogi Berra Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove it from the dictionary. – John Wooden
103. Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy. – DJ Khaled
104. Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of passions; it is the only one that includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. – Alphonse Karr
105. Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way toward becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. There is no surprise in that since the Lord proclaimed those as the first and great commandments. – Henry B. Eyring
106. Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe. – James Spader
107. Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile. – Carrie Ann Inaba
108. Love is the one wild card. – Taylor Swift
109. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
110. Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness. – Thomas Carlyle
111. Love is the only gold. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
112. Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. – Rabindranath Tagore
113. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – Erich Fromm
114. Love is the only unifier in the world. We’ve all felt exactly the same way. It’ll make you crazy, and it’ll make you ecstatic, and that’s true for everyone. – Rumer Willis
115. Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is. – Sri Chinmoy
116. Love is the opener as well as the closer of eyes. – George MacDonald
117. Love is the outreach of self toward completion. – Ralph W. Sockman
118. Love is the poetry of the senses. – Honore de Balzac
119. Love is the power to see similarities in the dissimilar. – Theodor W. Adorno
120. Love is the reason you were born. – Dorothy Fields
121. Love is the river of life in the world. Henry Ward Beecher Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. – Judith Viorst
122. Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. – Mignon McLaughlin
123. Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. – James Thurber
124. Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life. – Vanessa Paradis
125. Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything. – Julia Cameron
126. Love is the substance of human survival. – Josh Tillman
127. Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they’re married, then one always suspects they don’t. – Jane Rule
128. Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. – Gerald Jampolsky
129. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. – H. L. Mencken
130. Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love for others, and others’ love for us. – Thomas Traherne
131. Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. – Tom Wolfe
132. Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. – Tom Robbins
133. Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s. – Madame de Stael
134. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. – Samuel Johnson
135. Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. – John Ciardi
136. Love is three-quarters curiosity. – Giacomo Casanova
137. Love is too young to know what conscience is. – William Shakespeare
138. Love is trembling happiness. – Khalil Gibran
139. Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations – but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself but whole families. – Junot Diaz
140. Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self. – Erich Fromm
141. Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to. – Don Miguel Ruiz
142. Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable. – Dick Gregory
143. Love is what makes the world go around. I know it’s a big cliche to use, but it is the absolute truth. There is nothing else like it. I know that is what everybody is striving to feel: in relationships, in brother- and sisterhood, and in all of the things that we aspire to have in our lives. – Gladys Knight
144. Love is what really fuels you, and that goes for relationships with a spouse or with family. Love is a beautiful thing. – Christina Milian
145. Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we’re not so happy. – Jada Pinkett Smith
146. Love is what we aspire to most in our lives. – Orlando Bloom
147. Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. – Marianne Williamson
148. Love is what you’ve been through with somebody. – James Thurber
149. Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. – John le Carre
150. Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one’s self. – David Frost
151. Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. – Torquato Tasso
152. Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it. – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
153. Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
154. Love is when you don’t have to be with another person to touch their heart! – Torquato Tasso
155. Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. – Andre Breton
156. Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. – Jean Anouilh
157. Love is, to me, a lot of different things. It’s the love you have for yourself and if you have family and friends. Your love for pizza. I feel like love can be really anything that you want it to be. – Tess Holliday
158. Love is… never asking for more than you are prepared to give. – Kim Casali
Conclusion
I guess you found enough quotes about love in this article – short love quotes, funny love quotes, deep love quotes, and famous love quotes. To everyone, for every taste. Use them for postcards, love messages to your beloved, surprise them with sweet words and make their day. It is never a bad idea to express your deep feelings to someone you love. If you looking for more love quotes on our website, go to my other article “45 True Love Quotes For Your Relationship”.