“Love shook my heart, like the wind on the mountain rushing over the oak trees.”
Sappho
PassionPoetry
Love Quotes
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Love Quotes
Read 90 of the best love quotes from Tagore, Kabir, Mirza Ghalib, the Thirukkural, Lao Tzu, Maya Angelou and C.S. Lewis, plus romantic quotes for him, for her and for long-distance love.
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle
SoulmatesPhilosophy
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”
Sophocles
HealingLove
“Let my love, like sunlight, surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.”
Rabindranath Tagore
FreedomRomantic Love
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age, forever.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Eternal LoveSoulmates
“Reading books, the whole world died, yet none became wise; one who reads the two and a half letters of love becomes truly learned.”
Kabir
WisdomLove
“My only one is Giridhar Gopal; there is no other.”
Meera Bai
DevotionBhakti
“Love has made Ghalib good for nothing; otherwise I too was a man of some use.”
Mirza Ghalib
RomanceFunny
“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life.”
Swami Vivekananda
SelflessnessLife
“Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
LifeShort Quotes
“Is there a bolt that can hold love in? The tiny tear will make the lover's secret plain.”
Thiruvalluvar
EmotionsSecret Love
“Of precious soul with body's flesh and bone, the union yields one fruit, the life of love alone.”
Thiruvalluvar
PurposeLife
“As the sun scorches the boneless worm, so virtue scorches the loveless.”
Thiruvalluvar
VirtueWarning
“What use is outward beauty to those who lack the inner beauty of love?”
Thiruvalluvar
Inner BeautyCharacter
“Other ills have other medicines; for the ache she gives, she herself is the cure.”
Thiruvalluvar
RomanceLonging
“The more I know her, the more I discover my ignorance, just as the more one learns, the more one knows one's lack.”
Thiruvalluvar
RomanceWonder
“Those who are loved by the ones they love have gained the seedless fruit of love.”
Thiruvalluvar
Mutual LoveHappiness
“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease.”
William Blake
Selfless LovePoetry
“Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.”
Alexander Pope
FreedomPoetry
“But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her for ever.”
Robert Burns
Love At First SightPoetry
“But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, and loved the sorrows of your changing face.”
W. B. Yeats
True LovePoetry
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
The Bible (1 John 4:19)
FaithLove
“My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”
The Bible (1 John 3:18)
ActionsTruth
“Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love.”
The Bible (Jeremiah 31:3)
Eternal LoveFaith
“I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love.”
The Bible (Hosea 11:4)
TendernessFaith
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About Love Quotes
Love is the oldest subject in poetry and the one we never tire of. It makes us braver, kinder and sometimes a little foolish. From Sappho's verses in ancient Greece to Kabir's dohas, Ghalib's ghazals and the love chapters of the Thirukkural, every age has tried to put this feeling into words.
This collection brings together 90 of the best love quotes. It starts with classic words from Sappho, Aristotle, Rabindranath Tagore, Kabir, Meera Bai, Mirza Ghalib, the Thirukkural and the Bible, continues with quotes from Lao Tzu, Maya Angelou, C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr. and other famous voices, and ends with original WebFunFacts love quotes for him, for her, for married couples and for long-distance love. For more, explore our [Marriage Quotes](/topics/marriage-quotes) and [Anniversary Quotes](/topics/anniversary-quotes).
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about Love quotes.
What is the most famous love quote?
Aristotle's "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies" is one of the oldest and best known. Lao Tzu's line about love giving both strength and courage is another favourite.
What did Kabir say about love?
Kabir wrote that people read books all their lives without becoming wise, but whoever reads "the two and a half letters of love" becomes truly learned. In Hindi, "prem" (love) has two and a half letters.
What does the Thirukkural say about love?
The Thirukkural has a whole section on love. One famous couplet asks, "Is there a bolt that can hold love in?", saying a single tear will reveal a lover's secret.
What is a good quote about self-love?
Lucille Ball said, "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." Or try "Speak to yourself the way you would speak to someone you love."
What is a good long-distance love quote?
Try "Miles apart, but never apart in heart," or "The same moon shines over both of us. Tonight, I'll look up and think of you."
What is the difference between mature and immature love?
Erich Fromm explained it this way: immature love says, "I love you because I need you," while mature love says, "I need you because I love you."