25 of The Greatest Love Quotes

Love and Romance

My favorite love quote of all times is :

“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees – My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath – a source of little visible delight,but necessary.”

The protagonist Catherine tells this to Nelly in what is considered to be one of the greatest love stories ever told – Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Bronte.

It is one of the most uninhibited and powerful expressions of love that I have ever come across.

Here is a collection of the greatest love quotes of all times:

• “Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry”

                                                                             Erich Segal – Love Story (1970)

• ” Is it prickly to touch as a hedge is

            Or soft as eiderdown fluff?

            Is it sharp or quite smooth at the edges?

            O tell me the truth about love.”

                                                                W.H.Auden- ‘Oh Tell Me the Truth about Love’(1938)

• “How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That’s what love does,it changes everything.”

                                                                 Lauren Bacall – By Myself (1978)

• “Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex”

                                                                  Julian Barnes – Talking It Over (1991)

• “The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much”

                                                                   Amelia E.Barr – The Belle of Bolling Green (1904)

• “To love someone is to isolate him from the world,wipe out every trace of him,dispossess him of his shadow,drag him into a murderous future.It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.”

                                                                    Jean Baudrillard – Fatal Strategies (1983)

• “The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end”

                                                                     Benjamin Disraeli – Henrietta Temple (1837)  

• “For God’s sake hold your tongue,and let me love.”

                                                                            John Donne – ‘The Canonization’

• “Love is a universal migraine.

           A bright stain on the vision

           Blotting out reason.”

                                     Robert Graves – ‘Symptoms of Love’      

• “O,my Luve’s like a red,red rose

           That’s newly sprung in June;

           O my Luve’s like the melodie

           That’s sweetly play’d in tune.”

                                      Robert Burns - ‘A Red Red Rose’ (1796)

• “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

                                       William Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595-6)

• “Love seeketh not itself to please,

           Nor for itself hath any care;

           But for another gives its ease,

           And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.”

                                        William Blake – ‘The Clod and the Pebble’ (1794)

• “Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.”

                                         Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Wind,Sand and Stars (1939)

• “Omnia vincit Amor:et nos cedamus Amori.”-

           Love conquers all things:let us too give in to Love.

                                         Virgil – Eclogues

• “‘Tis better to have loved and lost

            Than never to have loved at all.”

                                           Alfred Lord Tennyson – ‘Locksley Hall’(1842)

• “Let me not to the marriage of true minds

           Admit impediments.Love is not love

            Which alters when it alteration finds.”

                                           William Shakespeare – Sonnet 116

• “To be wise,and love,

            Exceeds man’s might.”

                                            William Shakespeare – Troilus and Cressida (1602)

• When asked if he was ‘in love’:

          “Yes…whatever that may mean.”

                                   After the announcement of his engagement, Charles, Prince of Wales (1981)

• “If grass can grow through cement,love can find you at every time in your life.”

                                   Cher – in The Times  30 May 1998

• “Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”

                                   Ice-T – The Ice Opinion (1994)

• “Love’s like the measles – all the worse when it comes late in life.”

                                   Douglas Jerrold – The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (1859)

• “Love is one of the answers humankind invented to stare death in the face: time ceases to be a measure, and we can briefly know paradise.”

                                    Octavio Paz – The Double Flame (1995)

• “Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it”

                                    Boris Pasternak – Doctor Zhivago (1958)

• “The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”

                                     W.Somerset Maugham – A Writer’s Notebook (1949)