60 Quotes About Inspirational Love

Sometimes not that you can’t really express your love for someone or something verbally but, sometimes some expressions are better as text.


This is 60 of the most inspiring, touching and helpful quotes on love.

2.“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”— Benjamin Franklin

3.“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4.“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.

5.“We are most alive when we’re in love.”— John Updike


6.“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”— Elbert Hubbard

7.“The giving of love is an education in itself.”— Eleanor Roosevelt

8.“The more one judges, the less one loves.”— Honore de Balzac

9.“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”— Ingrid Bergman

10.“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”— Lao Tzu


11.“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”— Kahlil Gibran

12.“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”— Andre Breton

13.“Love is a better teacher than duty.”— Albert Einstein

14.“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”— Erich Segal

15.“Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one.”


16.“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”— James Thurber

17.“The best proof of love is trust.”— Joyce Brothers

18.“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”— Honore de Balzac

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

20.“Fortune and love favor the brave.”— Ovid


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

22.“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”— Wayne Dyer

23.“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”— Anaïs Nin

24.“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”— Martin Luther King Jr.

25.“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


26.“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”— Charles Schulz

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

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

29.“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

31.“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”— Herman Hesse

32.“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”— Roy Croft

33.“Love is a friendship set to music.”
—  Joseph Campbell

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

35.“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”— Blaise Pascal


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

37.“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”— Eleanor Roosevelt

38.“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”— Leo Buscaglia

39.“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”— Rumi

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


41.“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

42.“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”— Plato

43.“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”— Alfred Tennyson

44.“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller

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


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

47.“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

48.“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”— Dr. Seuss

49.“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”— Khalil Gibran

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


51.“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 done well.”— Vincent Van Gogh

52.You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue. -C. JoyBell C.

53.Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. -Helen Schucman

54.We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved. -C. JoyBell C.

55.Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)


56.You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this. -C. JoyBell C.

57.They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire and you can’t stop running simply because you keep on burning everything that you touch! I say that’s a good love; one that burns and flies, and you run with it! -C. JoyBell C.

58.She didn’t belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someone. People always thought she was too wonderful to belong to them or that something too wonderful would hurt too much to lose. And that’s why she liked him– because he just thought she was crazy. -C. JoyBell C.


59.In this world, ie to search for somese themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in. -C. JoyBell C.

60.If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned, and of poor judgment, I will. And I would be damned if I cared what other people think. For I would rather be thought of as all of these things, than not love. If in loving, I become the naked woman on the horse, I will ride that horse with my head held high. This is my spirit. I am unbreakable. -C. JoyBell C.