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150+ Famous Love Quotes From Classic to Contemporary

Discover famous quotes about love that come straight from the heart.

No emotion or feeling is more universal than love. It's all-encompassing and a word that may not be the same across every language, but love is found in every culture and corner of the world. From north to south, east to west. These famous quotes about love say all that - and more.

Famous Love Quotes That Capture All the Emotion

The philosophers know a thing or two about love, as do the poets, and everyone navigating the human experience. Love is our common bond.

• "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
• "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." - Audrey Hepburn
• "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." - Maya Angelou
• "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
• "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
• "If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love." - Princess Diana
• "The giving of love is an education in itself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
• "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." - Voltaire
• "Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do." - David Wilkerson
• "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov
• "Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• "Love is a friendship set to music." - Joseph Campbell
• "We are most alive when we're in love." - John Updike
• "Love is the greatest refreshment in life." - Pablo Picasso
• "Love is a game that two can play and both win." - Eva Gabor
• "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
• "The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that." - Woody Allen
• "Love is a better teacher than duty." - Albert Einstein
• "Love is like a flower; it grows and opens up with tenderness, care, and affection." - Debasish Mridha
• "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." - Mother Teresa
• "Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
• "Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." - John Lennon
• "Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand." - Mother Teresa
• "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
• "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King Jr.
• "Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels." - Greg Evans
• "Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end." - Madame de Staël
• "Love is like a river, always changing, but always finding you again somewhere down the road." - Kelly Elaine
• "Love is like a fire. Whether it will warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell." - Joan Crawford
• "Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused." - Paulo Coelho
• "The art of love is largely the art of persistence." - Albert Ellis
• "Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods." - Plato
• "Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand." - Mother Teresa
• "Love is a language spoken by everyone, but understood only by the heart." - Paulo Coelho
• "Love is the flower you've got to let grow." - John Lennon
• "Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without." - Rafael Ortiz
• "Love is a sweet tyranny because the lover endures his torment willingly." - Proverb
• "Love is the bridge between two hearts." - Anonymous
• "Love is like a good coffee, sweet, warm, and addictive." - Anonymous
• "Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but how much you prove that it's true." - Anonymous
• "Love is not about possession. It's all about appreciation." - Anonymous
• "Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is looking past someone's flaws and seeing their worth." - Anonymous
• "Love is like the ocean. It can be calm and still or rough and rigid, but in the end, it is always beautiful." - Anonymous
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Famous Quotes About Love From Writers and Literature

A great writer knows how to encapsulate the feeling of love and the waves of emotion it brings with it.

• "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
• "I have loved you all my life, Juliet, more than my own soul." - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
• "You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how." - Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
• "The only way you can beat my crazy was by doing something crazy yourself. Thank you. I love you. I knew it from the moment I met you. I'm sorry it took so long for me to catch up." - Kiera Cass, The Selection
• "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
• "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs." - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
• "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." - Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
• "Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness." - Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
• "You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love... I love... I love you." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• "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, Winnie-the-Pooh
• "Love is a better master than duty." - Albert Einstein, The World as I See It
• "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough." - Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
• "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not." - Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
• "The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone." - Jane Austen, Love and Friendship
• "Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it." - Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
• "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." - Voltaire, Zadig
• "Love is a many splendored thing, and you are the definition of true splendor." - E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
• "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
• "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise." - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
• "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• "You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught." - Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
• "If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours; if they don't, they never were." - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• "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, Marilyn Monroe: Her Words
• "Love is a great beautifier." - Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
• "Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it." - Nicholas Sparks
• "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." - Victor Hugo
• "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Robert Frost
• "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
• "Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs." - William Shakespeare
• "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
• "Love is the only gold." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
• "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." - Jalal ad-Din Rumi

If you and your person like the same books or authors, share quotes from what you're currently reading or things you've read in the past. This can make the love quote really special.

Famous Sayings About Love From Song Lyrics

Music speaks volumes when you don't have the right words to say, but these lyrics do the job just fine.

• "You are the best thing that's ever been mine." - Taylor Swift, "Mine"
• "Cause all of me loves all of you, love your curves and all your edges, all your perfect imperfections." - John Legend, "All of Me"
• "I will always love you." - Whitney Houston, "I Will Always Love You"
• "I just want to dance the night away with you." - Bryan Adams, "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)"
• "You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be." - The Goo Goo Dolls, "Iris"
• "Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime." - Celine Dion, "My Heart Will Go On"
• "I could stay awake just to hear you breathing." - Aerosmith, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
• "I will love you till the end of time." - Lana Del Rey, "Blue Jeans"
• "I could make you happy, make your dreams come true. Nothing that I wouldn't do. Go to the ends of the Earth for you, to make you feel my love." - Adele, "Make You Feel My Love"
• "You're still the one I run to, the one that I belong to." - Shania Twain, "You're Still the One"
• "Take my hand, take my whole life too, for I can't help falling in love with you." - Elvis Presley, "Can't Help Falling in Love"
• "I want to hold your hand, walk along the sand, laugh in the face of time." - The Beatles, "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
• "I don't want to miss a thing." - Aerosmith, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
• "You're beautiful, it's true." - James Blunt, "You're Beautiful"
• "And I will always love you, I will always love you." - Dolly Parton, "I Will Always Love You"
• "Cause all I need is a beauty and a beat, who can make my life complete." - Justin Bieber feat. Nicki Minaj, "Beauty and a Beat"
• "Baby, you're a firework, come on let your colors burst." - Katy Perry, "Firework"
• "Cause I can't help falling in love with you." - UB40, "Can't Help Falling in Love"
• "You're the reason I go on. You're the reason I sing this song." - Mariah Carey, "My All"
• "I'm just a little bit caught in the middle, life is a maze and love is a riddle." - Lenka, "The Show"
• "Cause every little thing gonna be alright." - Bob Marley, "Three Little Birds"
• "When you love someone, you'll do anything. You'll do all the crazy things that you can't explain." - Bryan Adams, "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)"
• "I don't want to lose your love tonight." - The Outfield, "Your Love"
• "And I swear by the moon and the stars in the sky, I'll be there." - Savage Garden, "I Knew I Loved You"
• "Love is a battlefield." - Pat Benatar, "Love Is a Battlefield"
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Quotable Lines About Love From TV and Movies

Curl up on the couch while your favorite characters learn the ropes about falling in love.

• "You had me at hello." - Jerry Maguire (Jerry Maguire)
• "Love is never having to say you're sorry." - Love Story
• "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." - Notting Hill
• "I love you 3000." - Avengers: Endgame (Tony Stark/Iron Man)
• "To me, you are perfect." - Love Actually (Mark)
• "I wish I knew how to quit you." - Brokeback Mountain (Jack Twist)
• "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Arwen)
• "I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." - Notting Hill (Anna Scott)
• "You complete me." - Jerry Maguire (Jerry Maguire)
• "Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you." - Titanic (Jack Dawson)
• "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." - Moulin Rouge! (Christian)
• "You make me want to be a better man." - As Good as It Gets (Melvin Udall)
• "I love you. I knew it the minute I met you. I'm sorry it took so long for me to catch up. I just got stuck." - Silver Linings Playbook (Pat)
• "I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts." - When Harry Met Sally... (Harry Burns)
• "Our love is like the wind... I can't see it, but I sure can feel it." - A Walk to Remember (Landon Carter)
• "I love you, and that's the beginning and end of everything." - The Age of Adaline (Ellis Jones)
• "You are my person. You will always be my person." - Grey's Anatomy (Cristina Yang)
• "It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it." - Sleepless in Seattle (Sam Baldwin)
• "I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it." - City of Angels (Seth)
• "You have bewitched me, body and soul." - Pride and Prejudice (Mr. Darcy)
• "I'm just a woman, standing in front of a man, asking him to love her." - Notting Hill ( Anna Scott)
• "You can't lose something you never had." - Brokeback Mountain (Ennis Del Mar)
• "You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how." - Gone with the Wind (Rhett Butler)
• "You are my greatest adventure." - The Incredibles (Mr. Incredible)
• "Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it." - A Walk to Remember (Landon Carter)
• "I love you and I like you." - Parks and Recreation (Leslie Knope)
• "If you're a bird, I'm a bird." - The Notebook (Noah Calhoun)
• "I have a lot of faith in us. I believe in us." - Grey's Anatomy (Meredith Grey)
• "It's always been you." - Friends (Ross Geller)
• "I think I'd miss you even if we'd never met." - The Office (Jim Halpert)
• "I choose you." - Pokémon (Ash Ketchum)
• "You're the lobster." - Friends (Phoebe Buffay)
• "I love our story. Sure, it's messy, but it's the story that got us here." - How I Met Your Mother (Ted Mosby)
• "If I had to choose between breathing and loving you, I would use my last breath to say I love you." - The Vampire Diaries (Damon Salvatore)
• "In this crazy world, full of change and chaos, there is one thing of which I am certain: you are my constant, my touchstone, my home." - Grey's Anatomy (Derek Shepherd)
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Love Quotes: The Wisest, Wittiest . . . and Most Cynical

Romantic love: it inspires poets, philosophers, humorists--and skeptics..

Posted February 12, 2011

Having reviewed many 100s of quotations on the wonders--and woes--of romantic love , here are some that I think represent the very best. At the same time that many of the quotes below celebrate the many joys of romantic--almost fairy-tale--love, they typically also demonstrate great awareness of its transience, its maddening let-downs and instability. The most cynical quotations, which (I admit) are well-exemplified here, may perhaps have been written by those who loved--and lost.

But win or lose, who could deny that romantic love is life's most spectacular adventure? When we're transported from living in 3-D to the awe-inspiring expansiveness of 4-D , unquestionably it's in the consciousness-altering intensity of being in love. As William Thackeray opined: "To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." Of course, when love fails--whether it's through being rejected, or falling out of love--our immediate distress, disappointment (or disenchantment) can feel utterly devastating. So in the short run, "loving and losing" probably doesn't feel much like "second best" at all. Yet it's definitely true that no matter how romantic love ends, the experience is one that can enrich us and tell us something about ourselves that almost certainly we wouldn't have realized earlier.

All in all, I think most people (at least on reflection) would agree that the tender--or tumultuous--experience of loving was worth it. At its best, romantic love transmutes into something less fervent but more balanced and mature. And, at the same time it becomes less passionate, it evolves into something deeper and broader. And love, even at its worst, well, it's still a learning experience--a most valuable one, too, as long as you allow it to teach you what you need to know to be more successful next time.

It's fascinating to me how many of the following quotes have a paradoxical flavor to them. The altered mood--even state of being--linked to loving seems inherently to lend itself to all sorts of ironic observations. My hope is that in reading through these quotes, you'll experience some delightful ah-ha! moments--along with whatever sighs, grimaces, and head shakes come up as a result of remembering lost loves, crushed dreams , dashed hopes, and so on.

Finally, quite a few of these quotations may have a lot more to do with infatuation than love (romantic or otherwise). For I define "infatuation" quite literally: that is, to be made to act foolishly (i.e., as derived from the word "fatuous"). So, for instance, we have these two quotes: "Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly" (Rose Franken), and "Love is being stupid together" (Paul Valery).

But enough introduction already . . . enjoy! These choice quotations--from classic to contemporary--are (to me at least) not simply food for thought, but precious delicacies to be nursed and savored:

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. ~ Philip James Bailey

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure! . . . . Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! ~ Joseph Addison

Love spends his all, and still hath store. ~ Philip James Bailey

Could I love less, I should be happier now. ~ Philip James Bailey

Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance. ~ Anonymous

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~ Douglas Yates

A heart that loves is always young. ~ Proverb

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love. ~ Elizabeth Aston

Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen. ~ Anonymous

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. ~ Mae West

Love is a many splintered thing. ~ Proverb

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh. ~ Proverb

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~ Proverb

There is love, of course. And then there's life, its enemy. ~ Jean Anouilh

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~ Proverb

Love is friendship set on fire. ~ Jeremy Taylor

Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love that we find the greatest of strengths and the deepest of sorrows. Love can seem to be so fleeting and unachievable, yet it remains well within our reach if we only learn how to embrace its power. To experience true love, we must be willing to open ourselves up and sacrifice part of our heart and part of our soul. We must be willing to give of ourselves freely, and we must be willing to suffer. It is only when we expose our inner selves to the white hot flame of rejection, that love can burn so brightly as to join two souls, melding the two into one, creating a bond that joins forever. It is from this bond that we draw strength eternal and power everlasting. It is in this thing that we call love that we find the means to achieve greatness, both in ourselves and in our lives. ~ Anonymous

In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ~ Rich Cannarella

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

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination . ~ Voltaire

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. ~ Anonymous

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. ~ John Donne

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness, and call it love. ~ Anonymous

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

The one who loves less controls the relationship. ~ Anonymous

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~ Anonymous [frankly, I'm guessing that whoever came up with this one probably pleaded not to be identified!]

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall--but you are there to catch them. ~ Anonymous

The woman cries before the wedding, the man after. ~ Proverb

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. ~Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. ~ Louise Erdrich

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. ~ Erich Fromm

The love we give away is the only love we keep. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ~ Erica Jong

We are not the same person this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Love is a temporary insanity, curable by marriage . ~ Ambrose Bierce

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. ~ Thomas Moore

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. ~ Helen Rowland

Falling in love doesn't kill people. Landing does. ~ Fang

Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~ Aerosmith

Love isn't blind, it's retarded. ~ Don Foster & Susan Beavers

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. ~ William Shakespeare

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

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~ Oscar Wilde

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. ~ Janos Arany

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~ Fyodor Dostoevski

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column. ~ George Bernard Shaw

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~ Dr Seuss

After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason. ~ Albert Camus

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. ~ Anonymous

Love is something far more than 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

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with. ~ Clark Gable

To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ~ David Viscott

Love lasteth long as the money endureth. ~ William Caxton

When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows. ~ John Clarke

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl. ~ Stephen Leacock

Love is a fan club with only two fans. ~ Anonymous

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly. ~ Louis Ginzberg

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. ~ Henry Miller

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. ~ Ranier Maria Rilke

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things. ~ Anonymous

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. ~ John Barrymore

lovers alone wear sunlight. ~ e. e. cummings

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~ Hans Nouwens

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We are, each of us, angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~ Luciano de Crescenzo.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. ~ Thomas Carlyle

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. ~ Bob Hope

Forget love--I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~ Sandra J. Dykes

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~ Proverb

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert Heinlein

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~ Rose Franken

Love is being stupid together. ~ Paul Valery

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallox. ~ Woody Allen

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. ~ Anton Chekhov

True love stories never have endings. ~ Richard Bach

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~ Victor Hugo

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. ~ Pearl Bailey

If you want to be loved, be lovable. ~ Ovid

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes . . . just be an illusion. ~ Javan

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ~ Tom Robbins

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. ~ Ursula K. LeGuin.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. ~ Oscar Wilde

Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~ Eva Gabor

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires. ~ Marcel Proust

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ~ Daniel S. Greenberg

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence . ~ H. L. Mencken.

One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry. ~ Oscar Wilde

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. ~ Diane Ackerman

So, whether you're man or woman, girl or boy, straight or gay, Happy Valentine's Day!--This Year and Every Year!

. . . and if these many quotations somehow "speak" to you--or prompt you to LOL (!)--please consider passing them on.

NOTE 1: For a rather different (and sadder) take on the subject, check out my two companion pieces "Most Memporable Quotes on Unrequited Love." and "The Blissful Torture of Unrequited Love."

NOTE 2: Plus, for one of my most popular (I wonder why) posts on a closely kindred subject, see my "Wittiest Sex Quotes Ever."

NOTE 3: If you could relate to this post and think others you know might also, please consider forwarding them its link.

NOTE 4: If you’d like to check out other posts I’ve done for Psychology Today online—on a broad variety of psychological topics—click here .

© 2012 Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D . All Rights Reserved.

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Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D. , is the author of Paradoxical Strategies in Psychotherapy and The Vision of Melville and Conrad . He holds doctorates in English and Psychology. His posts have received over 53 million views.

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In this list of beautiful love quotes you’ll find quotes about self-love, the power of love, how to love others well, what love is, simply inspirational love quotes and much more!

These curated beautiful quotes about love are thought-provoking, uplifting, inspiring—and sometimes profound. Plus at the end, there’s a Fierce Kindness exercise to learn about yourself too… Enjoy ❤️

This bonus beautiful love quote is one of my favourites on self-love:

“Behold thyself in glory. Love thyself as I love you. In this way you honour me. It is my duty to love myself deeply, totally, unconditionally. To see myself as something of great worth. To do less is to deny the task for which I was born. What of my faults and inadequacies? I resolve to love them as part of who I am. I am beautiful because of them. They are part of my uniqueness, like markings on a wild animal. They give me flavour. Make me real. I allow myself and others to make mistakes, miss opportunities and make foolish decisions. I recognise and accept my vulnerability and fragility. My quirks and idiosyncrasies—all part of who I am. I am beautiful and special because of my humanness—in fact, this is where my true beauty lies. As the day accepts the sun and the night accepts the moon, so I accept myself. And so I become complete and whole.” John Kehoe

Which are the best love quotes? Well that depends on what you need to hear. Rumi, Mother Teresa, John Lennon, Elizabeth Gilbert—or someone else? You decide! My favourites are numbers 19, 25, 26, 36 and 40.

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Hi Emma, thank you for this beautiful collection of love quotes.

Much love and gratitude to you, Lynda

Dear Lynda, I’m glad you love these beautiful love quotes 🙂 They took me a long time to find and compile, and are some of my favourites <3 Em x

Great beautiful love quotes I read, all have decided to stick with love. My favourite quote: Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Hi there, a fellow quotes fan I see! Glad you like these quotes about love. Warmly, Emma-Louise

Great list of quotes about love, except #16 lists the author as “Anonymous”. Actually, the beginning of the book of 1 Corinthians identifies the author as the Apostle Paul.

(“Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in.” 1 Corinthians 1:1)

Thanks Julie for your further identification. I have updated that quote to include the more detailed biblical reference. It really is a beautiful love quote 🙂 Warmly, Emma-Louise

Dear Emma, Thanks so much for the love quotes. They really inspire me. I had a question. Are you a Christian or do you believe in Christianity? Thanks,

Hi (fellow) Emma,

I’m so glad you like these beautiful love quotes! And I tried to include quotes from different faiths/perspectives, so I’m glad you noticed 🙂

Warmly, Emma-Louise

Excellent read. I just passed this beautiful love quotes article onto a colleague who was doing some research on that. He just bought me lunch because I found it for him! Thus let me rephrase: Thanx for lunch!

Hi Franklin, how very serendipitous 🙂 I hope you had a wonderful lunch. Warmly, Emma-Louise

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20 Inspiring Quotes About Love

In life there are mountains and valleys , times of uncertainty and times of bliss, but “nothing can bring more joy to life than beautifully fulfilling relationships,” as personal development legend Jim Rohn said. According to him, the keys to healthy relationships are communication, patience, loyalty, common goals, an element of fun—and love.

1. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

—Robert A. Heinlein

2. “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

—Mother Teresa

3. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”

—Gautama Buddha

4. “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is a quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”

—Ann Landers

5. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

6. “love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”.

—Martin Luther King, Jr.

7. “Our first and last love is self-love.”

—Christian Nestell Bovee

8. “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

—Henry Drummond

9. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

—Maya Angelou

10. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

—Dalai Lama

11. “The more one judges, the less one loves.”

—Honor é de Balzac

12. “The first duty of love is to listen.”

—Paul Tillich

13. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

—James A. Baldwin

14. “Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible—it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.”

—Barbara de Angelis

15. “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”

—C.S. Lewis

16. “Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”

—Karl A. Menninger

17. “The best proof of love is trust.”

—Joyce Brothers

18. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

—Oscar Wilde

19. “The giving of love is an education in itself.”

—Eleanor Roosevelt

20. “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.”

—John Lennon

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60 Love Quotes Guaranteed To Make You Feel Things

Feel something going pitter-patter that's your heart, silly.

• Alex Alexander

Written on Apr 20, 2021

As Plato once said, "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." Don't agree? It's not hard to see why.

Many tongue-tied lovers stumble over themselves when trying to figure out just the most romantic way to say "I love you." After all, it's not easy to fully express exactly how it is you feel about the person you love most.

The most romantic saying would include something to do with the heart.

It's not like most of us walk around with an endless supply of our favorite love quotes at the top of our mind and on the tip of our tongue. Honestly, if we did, we might sound even more awkward than we do otherwise.

Luckily, the internet is an endless resource for finding inspirational phrases and sayings that poets, musicians, artists, philosophers, and screenwriters have written or uttered, putting this most elusive and complex feeling into words.

We certainly can't all expect to be Shakespeare, Joyce, or a Brontë sister, but we absolutely can sift through the treasure trove of quotes about love which they and other brilliant minds created for us all.

While every love is unique, there is a collective nature to the emotions involved in that heady mix of passion, fear, joy, worry, excitement, and trepidation.

The best love quotes are all about the feeling of "when you know, you know."

Of course, you don't have to take our word for it. Take your time, letting the words glide through your mind, heart, and soul. When your heart beats quickly and you can't help but think of your own him or her, you'll know you found the one to save (and maybe even to share with them).

So pour yourself a glass of wine, relax and picture the person who makes your heart dance. Then enjoy the beautiful words written, spoken, or sung by some of the most gifted minds in the world.

Here are our favorite famous love quotes from authors, artists, musicians, movies, and more.

1. "love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other." — rainer maria rilke.

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2. "Love is like the wind, you can't see it, but you can feel it." ― Nicholas Sparks, "A Walk To Remember"

3. "love doesn't make the world go round. love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — elizabeth barrett browning, 4. "love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." — robert a. heinlein, 5. "all you need is love. but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." — charles m. schulz.

6. "Love loves to love love." ― James Joyce, "Ulysses"

7. "love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star." — e.e. cummings, 8. "love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." ― alexander smith, 9. "love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs." — william shakespeare, "romeo and juliet", 10. "love is the answer to everything. it's the only reason to do anything." — ray bradbury, 11. "it is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all." — william makepeace thackeray, "vanity fair", 12. "we're all a little weird, and life's a little weird. and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." — dr. seuss, 13. "love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby: awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess." — lemony snicket, 14. "life is a flower of which love is the honey." — victor hugo, 15. "love is quivering happiness." — kahlil gibran, 16. "love; it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you. it will set you free." — mumford & sons, "sigh no more", 17. "the opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference." — elie wiesel, 18. "love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you." — dolly parton, 19. "passion makes the world go round. loves just makes it a safer place." — ice t, 20. "love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." — john lennon, 21. "love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses." — lao tzu, 22. "in dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities." — jános arnay, 23. "love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." — aristotle, 24. "there is no remedy for love but to love more." — henry david thoreau, 25. "love is a serious mental disease." — plato, 26. "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, 27. "love is the hardest habit to break and the most difficult to satisfy." — drew barrymore, 28. "do you know how you tell real love it's when someone else's interest trumps your own. i like to put it that way: trumps your own. love of somebody else — of family, of your kids — becomes the most important, most worthwhile thing in your life. it's what you foster and protect." — brad pitt, 29. "love is a game that two can play and both win." ― eva gabor.

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30. "We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." — Orson Wells

31. "i hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say: 'you have to work at being a couple.' no, you have to want to be there." — vanessa paradis, 32. "the only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants." — johnny depp, 33. "soul mates. it's extremely rare, but it exists. it's sort of like twin souls tuned into each other." — "what dreams may come", 34. "love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy." — vincent van gogh, 35. "love is the greatest refreshment in life." — pablo picasso, 36. "love is all around us." — "love, actually", 37. "you are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person i have ever known, but even that is an understatement." — f. scott fitzgerald, 38. "love is a friendship set to music." — e. joseph cossman, 39. "love never claims, it ever gives. love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself." — mahatma gandhi, 40. "darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." — martin luther king, jr., 41. "love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding." — diane arbus, 42. "if there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. i know, it's almost impossible to succeed, but ... who cares, really the answer must be in the attempt." — "before sunrise", 43. "the best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds and that's what you've given me." — nicholas sparks, "the notebook", 44. "death cannot stop true love. all it can do is delay it for a while." — "the princess bride", 45. "i’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." — "notting hill", 46. "true love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the freddie mercury part." — mindy kaling, 47. "absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." — benjamin franklin, 48. "dax helped me learn that i don't have it all figured out. sometimes that's the greatest gift someone can give you." — kristen bell, 49. "being in love is the worst. i mean it’s the best, but it's so hard and scary to open your heart to someone. the point is, vulnerability is the key to happiness. vulnerable people are powerful people." — amy poehler, 50. "when you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when i'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster." — taylor swift, 51. "love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything." — katharine hepburn, 52. “it’s always wrong to hate but its never wrong to love.” — lady gaga, 53. "whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." — emily brontë, "wuthering heights", 54. "the best smell in the world is that man that you love." — jennifer aniston, 55. "to be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return." — madonna, 56. "you always gain by giving love." — reese witherspoon, 57. "if you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love." — princess diana, 58. "a simple 'i love you' means more than money." — frank sinatra, 59. "when you're lucky enough to meet your one person, then life takes a turn for the best. it can't get better than that." — john krasinski , 60. “we accept the love we think we deserve.” — stephen chbosky, "the perks of being a wallflower".

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100 amazing love quotes to share with your person

So much more than just an emotion, love is a driving force.

And because there’s nothing more worthy to wax poetic on, we’ve created a highlight reel of love quotes to answer the door when the warm and fuzzies come knocking.  

After all, love makes the world go round, and that feeling can cause total strangers to transform into the most important people in each others’ lives. Beyond romantic love, it’s what can also tightly knit friends together or shape us at our core as it relates to our family or faith. 

Spanning centuries and modes of expression, may these one liners, meditations, song lyrics and memorable movie quotes inspire you to cherish your beloved. Use them to keep hope alive for the one you’re waiting patiently for, or to spice up a surprise sticky note for your sweetheart. 

One thing’s for sure: Cupid has nothing on these romantic quips.

Heartwarming love quotes

• "love is a place / & through this place of / love move / (with brightness of peace) / all places" — E.E. Cummings, “love is a place”
• "Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails." — 1 Corinthians 13 6-8
• "One hour of right down love is worth an age of dully living on." — Aphra Benn, "The Rover"
• "Cause all of me / Loves all of you / Love your curves and all your edges / All your perfect imperfections." — John Legend, “All of Me”
• "Give me your answer, fill in a form / Mine for evermore / Will you still need me, will you still feed me / When I’m sixty-four?" — The Beatles, “When I’m Sixty-Four”
• "I tell you this / to break your heart, / by which I mean only / that it break open and never close again / to the rest of the world." — Mary Oliver, “Lead”
• "I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump." — Zora Neale Hurston, “Dust Tracks on a Road”
• "Come along with me to my little corner of the world / Dream a little dream in my little corner of the world / You’ll soon forget that there’s any other place / Tonight, my love, we’ll share a sweet embrace." — Bob Hilliard, “My Little Corner of the World”
• All love that has not friendship for its base, / Is like a mansion built upon the sand. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Upon the Sand”
• "Can I go where you go? / Can we always be this close, forever and ever? — Taylor Swift, “Lover”
• "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." — Harry Burns, “When Harry Met Sally”
• "Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident." ― Louis de Bernières, "Corelli’s Mandolin"
• I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love, / except in this form in which I am not nor are you, / so close that your hand upon my chest is mine, / so close that your eyes close with my dreams." — Pablo Neruda, "Sonnet XVII"
• "He was part of my dream of course — but then I was part of his dream, too." — Lewis Carroll, "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"
• "Love, leave me like the light, / The gently passing day; / We would not know, but for the night, / When it has slipped away. / Go quietly; a dream, / When done, should leave no trace / That it has lived, except a gleam / Across the dreamer’s face.” ― Countee Cullen, “If You Should Go”
• "I found you and I loved you, / And all the world was mine." — Paul Laurence Dunbar, “A Golden Day"
• "Love is the one experience of the human condition that allows us to feel unequivocally, beautifully and deeply that our true condition is not isolation but union." — Daphne Rose Kingma, "A Lifetime of Love"
• It has made me better, loving you…it has made me wiser, and easier, and — I won’t pretend to deny — brighter and nicer and even stronger." — Henry James, "Portrait of a Lady"
• "When my soul was in the lost and found / You came along to claim it." — Aretha Franklin, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”
• "If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets." — Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
• "But I love your feet / only because they walked upon the earth and upon / the wind and upon the waters, / until they found me." — Pablo Neruda, “Your Feet”
• "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved." — bell hooks, "All About Love: New Visions"
• "But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest." — Eleanor Farjeon, "Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard"
• "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." — Song of Solomon 8:7
• "the leaves believe / such letting go is love / such love is faith / such faith is grace / such grace is God. / i agree with the leaves." — Lucille Clifton, “the lesson of the falling leaves”
• "Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service." — William Shakespeare, "The Tempest"
• "This is true love. You think this happens every day?"— Westley, "The Princess Bride"
• "I am amazed by peace / It is this possibility of you / asleep / And breathing in the quiet air." — June Jordan, “Poem for My Love”
• "Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?" — James Baldwin, "Giovanni’s Room"
• "Pass this love on, he’d say. It knows how to bend and will never break. It’s the only thing with a give and take. The more it’s used the more it makes." — Joy Harjo, "Poet Warrior: A Memoir"
• "I love you more than one more day." — Joan Didion, "The Year of Magical Thinking"
• "The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that." — Cheryl Strayed, "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar"
• "When I see your face / There’s not a thing that I would change / ‘Cause you’re amazing / Just the way you are." —Bruno Mars, “Just the Way You Are”
• "Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity." — Helen Hayes
• "Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another." — Jane Austen, "Emma"
• "I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river; to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything." — Virginia Woolf, "Night & Day"
• "You’ve touched me without even touching me." — Rupi Kaur, "Milk and Honey"
• “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Tennyson
• "You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful." — John Green, "The Fault In Our Stars"
• "The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are." — Oprah Winfrey
• "Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time." — Maya Angelou
• "Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• "We loved with a love that was more than love." — Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee” 
• "I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself." — Erich Fromm
• "Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you." — Eckhart Tolle, "The Power of Now"
• "A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake." — Elizabeth Gilbert, "Eat, Pray, Love"
• "If you have no intention of loving or being loved, then the whole journey is pointless." — Kate DiCamillo, "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane"
• "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze." — Elinor Glyn
• "The last thing to age on somebody is their heart." — Rocky in "Rocky Balboa"
• "Night falls like people into love / We generate our own light / To compensate." — Ani DiFranco, “Angry Anymore”
• "But most of all, love needs love, lots of it. And in return, love loves you and never stops." — Taylor Mali, “How Falling In Love Is Like Owning a Dog”
• "How can love’s spaciousness / be conveyed in the narrow confines of one syllable?" —  Diane Ackerman, from "A History of Love"
• "The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love." — John Muir
• "All days are nights to see till I see thee, / And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me." — William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 43"
• "For even if I’m far away / I hold you in my heart / I sing a secret song to you / Each night we are apart." — “Remember Me,” from "Coco"
• "I hope you don’t mind / I hope you don’t mind / That I put down in the words / How wonderful life is while you’re in the world." — Elton John, “Your Song”
• "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more." — Jane Austen, "Emma"
• "Hit me like a ray of sun/ Burning through my darkest night / You’re the only one that I want / Think I’m addicted to your light." — Beyoncé, “Halo”
• "You’ve got to laugh a little, cry a little, / until the clouds roll by a little. / That’s the story of, that’s the glory of love." — Billy Hill, “The Glory of Love”
• "He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." — Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"
• "Love is a form of heroism that never goes out of date." — Oscar Wilde
• “Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”—C.S. Lewis
• “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”— Henry David Thoreau
• “You look like the rest of my life.”— Beau Taplin 
• "Don’t save up love like you’re gonna retire on it. Give it away like you’re made of it.”—Bob Goff
• “Love is friendship that has caught fire.”—Ann Landers
• “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard, and we’re gonna have to work at this every day. But I wanna do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever. You and me. Every day.”— Nicholas Sparks, “The Notebook”
• “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”— Franklin P. Jones
• “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”— Dr. Seuss
• “The best time to love with your whole heart is always now, in this moment, because no breath beyond the current is promised.”— Fawn Weaver
• “Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.” — John Green, “An Abundance of Katherines”
• “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” — Romans 12:9
• “Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell
• “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” — Andre Maurois
• “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo
• “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” — Zora Neale Hurston
• “Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.” — Barbara de Angelis
• “You don’t fall into love. You commit to it. Love says, ‘I will be there no matter what.’”— Tim Keller
• “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”— Rumi
• “The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.”— Parker J. Palmer
• “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” — Willa Cather
• "Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved." — Oscar Wilde
• “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
• “Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.”— Theodore Roethke
• “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”— 1 Peter 4:8
• “Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time and distance. They only know it feels right to be with one another.” — Lang Leav
• “Thank you for loving me when I still tasted of heartache and war.” — Nikita Gill
• “It was instinctive, the way I fell for you. Like an effortless intake of breath.” — Josh Walker
• “My heart is so full of you I can hardly call it my own.”— Liana Rădulescu
• “We never realize how frozen we are until someone starts to melt our ice." — Bridgett Devoue
• “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” — Jodi Picoult, "My Sister’s Keeper"
• “I think I’d miss you even if we never met.”— Nick Mercer in “The Wedding Date”
• “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”— Roy Croft
• “Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.”— Eric Fromm
• “When the rain is blowing in your face/ And the whole world is on your case/I could offer you a warm embrace/To make you feel my love.”— Bob Dylan, "To Make You Feel My Love"
• “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”— Winnie the Pooh
• “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”— St. Augustine
• “The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. And the best time to love is now.”— Rick Warren
• "The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." — Vincent van Gogh

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115 Best Quotes About Love That Your Sweetheart Will Adore

Use these famous heartfelt sayings to express your feelings when you can't quite find the words.

These quotes about love make for the perfect addition to a Valentine’s Day card or anniversary caption , to celebrate a milestone moment in your relationship with your partner. If you’re looking for a quote to match a specific person or scenario, we’ve broken down our collection of heartfelt quotes into six categories to easily find what you’re looking for, such as famous love quotes, short love quotes, and love quotes for her.

If you adore love through and through and want more love messages to read through after this list, fret not! We have relationship quotes , love quotes from the Bible , and “I miss you” quotes on standby, ready for you to read through next!

Romantic Love Quotes

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• "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
• "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything." — Katharine Hepburn
• "Love is patient, love is kind. It isn't jealous, it doesn't brag, it isn't arrogant, it isn't rude, it doesn't seek its own advantage, it isn't irritable, it doesn't keep a record of complaints, it isn't happy with injustice, but it is happy with the truth. Love puts up with all things, trusts in all things, hopes for all things, endures all things." — 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
• "The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." — Henry Miller
• "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." — Zora Neale Hurston
• "Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold." — Zelda Fitzgerald
• "I am grateful that you were born, that your love is mine, and our two lives are woven and welded together." — Mark Twain
• "Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time." — Maya Angelou
• "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
• "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever." — Alfred Tennyson
• "The giving of love is an education in itself." — Eleanor Roosevelt

• "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." — Dr. Seuss
• "Love does not dominate; it cultivates." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." — Aristotle
• "I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul." — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
• "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
• "I love you, not because of who you are but because of who I am when I am with you." — Roy Croft
• "If I know what love is, it is because of you." — Hermann Hesse
• "The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough." — Yoko Ono
• "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving." — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
• "We're all a little weird, and life's a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them, and fall in mutual weirdness, and call it love." — Dr. Seuss

• "The love we give away is the only love we keep." — Elbert Hubbard
• "You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die." — Marc Norman, Shakespeare in Love
• "Love understands love; it needs no talk." — Frances Ridley Havergal
• "You make me want to be a better man." — Melvin Udall, As Good As It Gets
• "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
• "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
• "Love is not love until love’s vulnerable." – Theodore Roethke
• "Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity." — Unknown
• "The art of love is largely the art of persistence." — Albert Ellis
• "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." — Andre Breton, Mad Love

• "True love is putting someone else before yourself." — Olaf, Frozen
• "If the path be beautiful, let us not question where it leads." — Anatole France
• "There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love." — Adele, "Make You Feel My Love"
• "You are the best thing that’s ever been mine." — Taylor Swift, "Mine"
• "I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day." — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
• "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while." — William Goldman, The Princess Bride
• "I have not slept for fear I would wake to find all this a dream." — Prince Henry, Ever After: A Cinderella Story
• "I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes." — Unknown
• ​​"You are so beautiful, it hurts." — Rafe McCawley, Pearl Harbor
• "Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds." — Boyd K. Packer
• "A true love story never ends." — Unknown

• "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." — David Viscott
• "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." — Victor Hugo
• "Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you." — Loretta Young
• "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." — Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
• "Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around." — Bob Marley
• "Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life." — Leo Buscaglia
• "Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality." — Emily Dickinson, "Unable Are The Loved to Die"
• "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star." — Sinclair Lewis
• "Love’s gift cannot be given. It waits to be accepted." — Rabindranath Tagore
• "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop." — H. L. Mencken
• "Tell me who you love, and I’ll tell you who you are." — Unknown

• "Love is a friendship set to music." — Joseph Campbell
• "The best proof of love is trust." — Joyce Brothers
• "I like you very much. Just as you are." — Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
• "I love you more than my own skin." — Frida Kahlo
• "From the moment I saw her, I knew this one was worth the broken heart." ― Atticus
• "A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." — Max Muller
• "Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own." — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
• "Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred." — Barbara De Angelis
• "You can’t blame gravity for falling in love." — Albert Einstein
• "We are born of love; Love is our mother." — Rumi
• "Sometimes, the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

• "I will be a poet, and you will be poetry." — François Coppée
• "A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea." — Honore de Balzac
• "I love you right up to the moon — and back." — Sam McBratney, To the Moon and Back: Guess How Much I Love You
• "I do know some things. I know I love you. I know you love me." — Jon Snow, Game of Thrones
• "So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you." – Paulo Coelho , The Alchemist
• "You think you're one of millions, but you're one in a million to me." — Brad Paisley , "The World"
• "I could start a fire with what I feel for you." — Unknown
• "You give me the kind of feelings people write novels about." — Unknown
• " I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes." — Unknown
• "Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive. But most of all, loving you keeps me happy." — Unknown
• "Love is something eternal. The aspect may change but not the essence." – Vincent van Gogh

• "The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love." — Jean de la Bruyère
• "I look at the sky and stare at a star, but as beautiful as it is, it will never be like mine. You are mine, and I will never leave you again. I love you!" — Unknown
• "You are one of those people who meet when life decides to give you a gift." — Charles Dickens
• "Your eyes are cisterns that quench my torments." — Charles Baudelaire
• "I know no other reason to love you than to love you." — Fernando Pessoa
• "Your eyes make me shy." — Anaïs Nin
• "I love you the way a drowning man loves air, and it would destroy me to have you just a little." — Rae Carson, The Crown of Embers
• "Come live in my heart, and pay no rent." — Samuel Lover
• "Forever is never long enough when it’s spent with you." — Ralph
• "I will love you truly, forever and a day!" — William Rose Benét
• "Gifts are temporary and often forgotten; love is forever and always remembered." — Ken Poirot
• "I will love you all my life and when I die, I will still love you through eternity and beyond." — LeAnn Rimes

• "Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul that you never knew was missing." — Torquato Tasso
• "For you see, each day, I love you more. Today, more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." — Rosemonde Gerard
• "To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with." — Mark Twain
• "Love is a game that two can play, and both win." — Eva Gabor
• "Love never claims, it ever gives. Love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself." — Mahatma Gandhi
• "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." — Mother Teresa
• "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." — Plato
• "When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you, and I'm home." — Dory, Finding Nemo
• "They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything." — Bil Keane
• "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time." — Julia Child
• "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin P. Jones

• "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
• "True love stories never have endings." — Richard Bach
• "She knew she loved him when 'home' went from being a place to being a person." – Eric Leventhal
• "The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind I was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." — Rumi
• "One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love!" — Sophocles
• "If I tell you I love you, can I keep you forever?" — Casper
• "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." — Lao Tzu
• "There is no limit to the power of loving." — John Morton
• "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn
• "Stolen kisses are always sweetest." — Leigh Hunt
• "Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." — Karl A. Menninger

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Famous Abstract Poems About Life and Love Examples

We have got some Poems of Abstract type for you which emphasizes on the feeling and meaning of words instead of the impression of sound. Let’s read some abstract poetry.

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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

The Argument.

Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep

Once meek, and in a perilous path, The just man kept his course along The vale of death.

Roses are planted where thorns grow.

And on the barren heath Sing the honey bees.

Then the perilous path was planted: And a river, and a spring On every cliff and tomb; And on the bleached bones Red clay brought forth.

Till the villain left the paths of ease, To walk in perilous paths, and drive The just man into barren climes.

Now the sneaking serpent walks In mild humility.

And the just man rages in the wilds Where lions roam.

Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep.

****—-****—-****

Evolutionary Hymn by C S Lewis

Lead us, Evolution, lead us Up the future’s endless stair; Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.

For stagnation is despair: Groping, guessing, yet progressing, Lead us nobody knows where.

Wrong or justice, joy or sorrow, In the present what are they while there’s always jam-tomorrow, While we tread the onward way? Never knowing where we’re going, We can never go astray.

To whatever variation Our posterity may turn Hairy, squashy, or crustacean, Bulbous-eyed or square of stern, Tusked or toothless, mild or ruthless, Towards that unknown god we yearn.

Ask not if it’s god or devil, Brethren, lest your words imply Static norms of good and evil (As in Plato) throned on high; Such scholastic, inelastic, Abstract yardsticks we deny.

Far too long have sages vainly Glossed great Nature’s simple text; He who runs can read it plainly, ‘Goodness = what comes next. ‘ By evolving, Life is solving All the questions we perplexed.

Oh then! Value means survival- Value. If our progeny Spreads and spawns and licks each rival, That will prove its deity.

The Science Of The Night by Stanley Kunitz

I touch you in the night, whose gift was you, My careless sprawler, And I touch you cold, unstirring, star-bemused, That have become the land of your self-strangeness.

What long seduction of the bone has led you Down the imploring roads I cannot take Into the arms of ghosts I never knew, Leaving my manhood on a rumpled field To guard you where you lie so deep In absent-mindedness, Caught in the calcium snows of sleep?

And even should I track you to your birth Through all the cities of your mortal trial, As in my jealous thought I try to do, You would escape me–from the brink of earth Take off to where the lawless auroras run, You with your wild and metaphysic heart.

My touch is on you, who are light-years gone.

We are not souls but systems, and we move In clouds of our unknowing like great nebulae.

Our very motives swirl and have their start With father lion and with mother crab.

Dreamer, my own lost rib, Whose planetary dust is blowing Past archipelagoes of myth and light What far Magellans are you mistress of To whom you speed the pleasure of your art? As through a glass that magnifies my loss I see the lines of your spectrum shifting red, The universe expanding, thinning out, Our worlds flying, oh flying, fast apart.

From hooded powers and from abstract flight I summon you, your person and your pride.

Fall to me now from outer space, Still fastened desperately to my side; Through gulfs of streaming air Bring me the mornings of the milky ways Down to my threshold in your drowsy eyes; And by the virtue of your honeyed word Restore the liquid language of the moon, That in gold mines of secrecy you delve.

Awake! My whirling hands stay at the noon, Each cell within my body holds a heart And all my hearts in unison strike twelve.

Death by Frank O’hara

If half of me is skewered by grey crested birds in the middle of the vines of my promise and the very fact that I’m a poet suffers my eyes to be filled with vermilion tears

how much greater danger from occasion and pain is my vitality yielding like a tree on fire!– for every day is another view of the tentative past grown secure in its foundry of shimmering that’s not even historical;it’s just me.

And the other half of me where I master the root of my every idiosyncrasy and fit my ribs like a glove

is that me who accepts betrayal in the abstract as if it were insight? and draws its knuckles across the much-lined eyes in the most knowing manner of our time?

The wind that smiles through the wires isn’t vague enough for an assertion of a personal nature it’s not for me

I’m not dead. Nothing remains let alone “to be said “ except that when I fall backwards I am trying something new and shall succeed as in the past.

Eye and Tooth by Robert Lowell

My whole eye was sunset red, the old cut cornea throbbed, I saw things darkly, as through an unwashed goldfish globe.

I lay all day on my bed.

I chain-smoked through the night, learning to flinch at the flash of the matchlight.

Outside, the summer rain, a simmer of rot and renewal, fell in pinpricks.

Even new life is fuel.

My eyes throb.

Nothing can dislodge the house with my first tooth noosed in a knot to the doorknob.

Nothing can dislodge the triangular blotch of rot on the red roof, a cedar hedge, or the shade of a hedge.

No ease from the eye of the sharp-shinned hawk in the birdbook there, with reddish-brown buffalo hair on its shanks, one asectic talon

clasping the abstract imperial sky.

It says: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

No ease for the boy at the keyhole, his telescope, when the women’s white bodies flashed in the bathroom. Young, my eyes began to fail.

Nothing! No oil for the eye, nothing to pour on those waters or flames.

I am tired. Everyone’s tired of my turmoil.

Whispers of Immortality by T S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

WEBSTER was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin.

Daffodil bulbs instead of balls Stared from the sockets of the eyes! He knew that thought clings round dead limbs Tightening its lusts and luxuries.

Donne, I suppose, was such another Who found no substitute for sense, To seize and clutch and penetrate; Expert beyond experience,

He knew the anguish of the marrow The ague of the skeleton; No contact possible to flesh Allayed the fever of the bone.

Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye Is underlined for emphasis; Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

The couched Brazilian jaguar Compels the scampering marmoset With subtle effluence of cat; Grishkin has a maisonette;

The sleek Brazilian jaguar Does not in its arboreal gloom Distil so rank a feline smell As Grishkin in a drawing-room.

And even the Abstract Entities Circumambulate her charm; But our lot crawls between dry ribs To keep our metaphysics warm.

The Country of the Blind by C S Lewis

Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men, Dark bipeds not aware how they were maimed. A long Process, clearly, a slow curse, Drained through centuries, left them thus.

At some transitional stage, then, a luckless few, No doubt, must have had eyes after the up-to-date, Normal type had achieved snug Darkness, safe from the guns of heavn;

Whose blind mouths would abuse words that belonged to their Great-grandsires, unabashed, talking of light in some Eunuch’d, etiolated, Fungoid sense, as a symbol of

Abstract thoughts. If a man, one that had eyes, a poor Misfit, spoke of the grey dawn or the stars or green- Sloped sea waves, or admired how Warm tints change in a lady’s cheek,

None complained he had used words from an alien tongue, None question’d. It was worse. All would agree ‘Of course,’ Came their answer. “We’ve all felt Just like that. ” They were wrong. And he

Knew too much to be clear, could not explain. The words — Sold, raped flung to the dogs — now could avail no more; Hence silence. But the mouldwarps, With glib confidence, easily

Showed how tricks of the phrase, sheer metaphors could set Fools concocting a myth, taking the worlds for things.

Do you think this a far-fetched Picture? Go then about among

Men now famous; attempt speech on the truths that once, Opaque, carved in divine forms, irremovable, Dear but dear as a mountain- Mass, stood plain to the inward eye.

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Quotes and Sayings

60 famous abstract quotes sayings on art, and life.

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Below, you will find our collection of famous quotes about abstract art , photography, and design .

There is always a mystical pull to abstract paintings. It’s very subjective as an onlooker and makes one ponder more about the appeal of art.

The abstract art form gained prominence at the beginning of the twentieth century and differs significantly from traditional art forms.

Unlike accurately representing the image, the abstract form is about artistic independence to go wild on imagination.

Abstract paintings are famously called the purest form of expression to create far deeper visuals than representing an objective reality.

But art genius Pablo Picasso’s statement makes us wonder even more.

He quotes, There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward, you can remove all traces of reality.’

Best Abstract Quotes and Sayings

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. – Lucian Freud

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. – Eric Cantona

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life – rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. – Robert Motherwell

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. – Gerard Way

It abstract art should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not. – Jackson Pollock

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it. – Mahatma Gandhi

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. – Theodor Adorno

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness. – Willem de Kooning

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. – Gerhard Richter

The abstract has no emotional content, the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is. – Cecil Balmond

Abstract literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts. – Richard Diebenkorn

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. – Pablo Picasso

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. – Sol Lewitt

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality. – Mike Svob

Colorful Abstract Quotes

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. – Julian Jaynes

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity. – Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

You can’t look at abstract art without thinking. – Patricia Cole

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form. – Anton Ehrenzweig

The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought. – John Bargh

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. – Theodor Adorno

The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment… it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given. – Paul Dirac

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality. – Jim Hodges

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers’ sensitivities into action. – Robert Genn

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them. – Ben Shahn

I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal than we actually see. – Giorgio Morandi

The nature of what we call democracy is sadly no longer an abstract discussion beloved of political science professors. – Richard Wolfe

Objective painting is not a good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. – Georgia O’Keeffe

What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so-called figurative artists insist that what they really care about is the abstract qualities of life. – Marlene Dumas

Life Abstract Quotes

I’ve been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it. – Steven Wright

To bring my own prejudice into the open, abstract expressionism is a genre I have always distrusted, mainly because so much of it seems to me to express violent reactionary anarchism, a repudiating not so much of the traditions as of the community of painting. – Northyrop Frye

The difference between non-objective and abstract painting may be suggested by the difference between mathematics and music. – Northrop Frye

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. – Edmund Burke

A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. – Al Capp

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. – Paul Klee

I think the greatest feature of a lot of the images is that they’re not completely explainable and that they can have different meanings for different people. – Keith Haring

The kind of images I’m drawing has changed a lot. I’ve become much more conscious of who’s seeing them and thinking about them: realizing that the drawings are a great vehicle for getting ideas across, not just abstract ideas, but actual ideas or philosophies. – Keith Haring

I’d gone from the abstract drawings to the word pieces, but I decided that I was going to draw again. But if I was going to draw again, I couldn’t go back to the abstract drawings; they had to have some connection to the real world. – Keith Haring

I have found another kind of enjoyment through illness that is more important and unmeasurable. I have found that I am closer to abstract things in my sickness than in health. – Khalil Gibran

Black and white are abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. – Joel Sternfeld

One of the things I like about music is its abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing. – Bernard Sumner

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms is the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. – Joseph Joubert

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. – Salvador Dali

Intriguing Quotes About Abstract Art

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting. – Max Beckmann

Life is abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it. – Talismanist Giebra

The form itself, even if completely abstract has its own inner sound. – Wassily Kandinsky

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes. – Arshile Gorky

Abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. – Piet Mondrian

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion, and mystery, rather than obvious description. – Robert Genn

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. – Jackson Pollock

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout. – Lawren Harris

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed the imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. – Jean Helion

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. – Roger Scruton

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative. – Piet Mondrian

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words. – Debasish Mridha

Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common. – Rudolf Flesch

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. – Denis Diderot

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later. – Robert A. Heinlein

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abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

There is no must in art because art is free.

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas.

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

Every good painter paints what he is.

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