Ah, love. It’s that one thing that makes us feel like we’re walking on clouds or like we’ve just been run over by a bus. I’ve been there. You’ve been there.
One minute you’re in love, and the next you’re trying to block them on every social media platform before they post some cryptic, passive-aggressive status update.
But in the middle of all this chaos, there’s something universal about love: it makes for some damn good quotes.
Whether you’re deep in the honeymoon phase or staring down the wreckage of a breakup, there’s always a quote that just gets it.
I mean, I’ve sent more than a few of these out after getting hit with a breakup text. And trust me, nothing slaps harder than words that tell the truth about love, in all its ridiculous glory.
So, let’s dive into 99 quotes that sum up love and relationships better than we ever could in a 2 a.m. “what are we?” text.
That “I’m Falling Hard and I Love It” Kind of Love
- “We are most alive when we’re in love.” — John Updike
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
- “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” — Jodi Picoult
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell
- “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” — Albert Einstein
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
- “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones
- “First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” — Arthur Rubinstein
- “Love is the flower; you’ve got to let it grow.” — John Lennon
- “The course of true love never did run smooth.” — William Shakespeare
- “Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.” — Helen Rowland
- “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Henry David Thoreau
Trust Issues? More Like Trust Goals
- “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.” — William P. Young
- “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” — William Shakespeare
- “You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible.” — Anton Chekhov
- “The best proof of love is trust.” — Joyce Brothers
- “To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.” — George MacDonald
- “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” — Albert Einstein
- “Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.” — Julianne Moore
- “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication.” — Stephen Covey
- “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” — Warren Buffett
- “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” — Benjamin Spock
- “To be trusted is to be responsible.” — Pierre Corneille
- “A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust and solid friendship.” — Taylor Swift
- “Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.” — Santosh Kalwar
- “Love cannot live where there is no trust.” — Edith Hamilton
Heartbreaks & Hangovers: Love’s Worst Hits
- “The heart was made to be broken.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” — Khalil Gibran
- “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” — Nicholas Sparks
- “Hearts live by being wounded.” — Oscar Wilde
- “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” — Henry Miller
- “There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.” — Tennessee Williams
- “The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” — William Faulkner
- “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
- “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” — Steve Maraboli
- “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” — Mandy Hale
- “Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.” — Saint Augustine
- “Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” — Dale Evans
- “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” — G.K. Chesterton
When Love Gets Real (and Sometimes Ugly)
- “Love is a serious mental disease.” — Plato
- “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” — Albert Einstein
- “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” — H.L. Mencken
- “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” — Margaret Mitchell
- “Where there is love, there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” — Loretta Young
- “To love and be loved is to the feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
- “You always gain by giving love.” — Reese Witherspoon
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Love isn’t complicated, people are.” — Unknown
Ride-or-Die Love: The Commitment Chronicles
- “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.” — Peter Drucker
- “The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but still hold hands.” — Alexandra Penney
- “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” — T. Tolis
- “Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” — Mignon McLaughlin
- “True love stories never have endings.” — Richard Bach
- “Love recognizes no barriers.” — Maya Angelou
- “In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” — Paul McCartney
- “Love is a better teacher than duty.” — Albert Einstein
- “Commitment is an act, not a word.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
- “I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” — Helen Keller
- “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
- “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” — Henry Miller
Burning With Passion (And Maybe a Little Obsession)
- “Love is a burning thing, and it makes a fiery ring.” — Johnny Cash
- “To love is to burn, to be on fire.” — Jane Austen
- “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
- “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” — Ingrid Bergman
- “Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without.” — William Parrish (from Meet Joe Black)
- “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” — Jane Austen
- “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” — Oscar Wilde
- “We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allan Poe
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
- “In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities.” — Janos Arnay
- “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.” — E.E. Cummings
- “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” — Rabindranath Tagore
Moving On Up: Love’s Next Chapter
- “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” — Mother Teresa
- “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” — Rumi
- “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” — Julia Roberts
- “Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
- “Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.” — Euripides
- “Love is an act of endless forgiveness.” — Peter Ustinov
- “True love is not a hide-and-seek game; in true love, both lovers seek each other.” — Michael Bassey Johnson
- “The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things.” — Woody Allen
- “Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity.” — Truth Devour
- “To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.” — Karen Sunde
- “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” — Andre Breton
- “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” — Paul McCartney
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