Love, that timeless and universal emotion, has inspired poets, writers, and lovers throughout the ages. It’s an ineffable force that binds hearts together, transcending boundaries and defying logic.
Here are fifty romantic love quotes that encapsulate the depth, passion, and beauty of this extraordinary feeling, each accompanied by the name of its author.
50 Quotes for Lovers to Share
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me. — Rumi
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. — Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. — Nicholas Sparks
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte
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
You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Oscar Wilde
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. — Victor Hugo
If I know what love is, it is because of you. — Herman Hesse
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. — Arthur Conan Doyle
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. — Robert Fulghum
I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don’t be afraid. I have loved you for a thousand years. I’ll love you for a thousand more. — Christina Perri
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
I have found the one whom my soul loves. — Song of Solomon 3:4
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. — Eden Ahbez
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Tennyson
I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love. — Françoise Sagan
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. — Rumi
We loved with a love that was more than love. — Edgar Allan Poe
Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. — A. A. Milne
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. — Blaise Pascal
Because of you, I can feel myself slowly, but surely, becoming the me I have always dreamed of being. — Tyler Knott Gregson
I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more. — Angelita Lim
My soul will find yours. — Jude Deveraux
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. — Torquato Tasso
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. — Robert Frost
The best love stories start with unexpected twists. — Ritu Ghatourey
I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. — Morrie Schwartz
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart). — E.E. Cummings
You are my today and all of my tomorrows. — Leo Christopher
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. — Jeremy Taylor
There is no remedy for love but to love more. — Henry David Thoreau
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. — Stephanie Perkins
You don’t marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without. — Unknown
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart. — Alphonse de Lamartine
In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. — Rumi
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this. — Pablo Neruda
If I had to choose between breathing and loving you, I would use my last breath to tell you I love you. — DeAnna Anderson
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. — Leo Christopher
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. — William Saroyan
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. — Voltaire
My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul. — Boris Kodjoe
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. — David Viscott
Summary
Love, with its complexities and simplicities, remains the most powerful force in the universe. These quotes, penned by great minds throughout history, illuminate the myriad ways in which love enriches our lives, giving meaning to our existence and filling our hearts with boundless joy.
