Top 101 Love Quotes

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Love is a beautiful things. However, sometimes it can be very difficult to express to the ones you love. Check out below for the top 101 love quotes for the romantics out there.

#101 – 90. Love Quotes

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

100. “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry

99. “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” — H. L. Mencken

98. “Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.” – Elbert Hubbard

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

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

95. “I love that you are my person and I am yours, that whatever door we come to, we will open it together.” — A.R. Asher

94. “Love understands love; it needs no talk.” – Francis Havergal

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

92. “What I write comes from a place of deep love, and a deep understanding of all kinds of otherness.” – Jacqueline Woodson

91. It was the way you laughed, I knew I wanted that in my life. – R. M. Drake

90. “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen

#89 – 80. Love Quotes

89. “When love is not madness it is not love.” ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca

88. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well

87. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard

86. “It’s a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that’s been important to you. It’s actually not all that pleasurable. I don’t know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can’t bear an hour without somebody’s company.” — Colin Firth

85. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey

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

83. “Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.” – Jenn Proske

82. “All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.” — Leo Tolstoy

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

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

#79 – 70. Love Quotes

79. “I was, and I remain, utterly and completely and totally in love with you.” — J.R. Ward

78. “To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” – Bill Wilson

77. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.” – Pablo Neruda

76. “I never want to stop making memories with you.” — Pierre Jeanty

75. “Maybe the only vow we ever need to offer the one we love is this: I will never, not for a sliver of a second, make you feel alone.” — Tyler Knott Gregson

74. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

73. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele

72. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo

71. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” — Bette Davis

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

#69 – 60. Love Quotes

69. “Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it’s something rare and beautiful when people can confide in each other without fearing what the other person will think.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri

68. “My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.” – Boris Kodjoe

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

66. “I love you past the moon and miss you beyond the stars.” — J.M. Storm

65. “Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.” – Thomas Merton

64. “There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table.'” — Tom Hanks

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

62. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo

61. “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – Paulo Coelho

60. “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

#59 – 50. Love Quotes

59. “You know its love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”— Julia Roberts

58. “Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent love protects you from age.” – Jeanne Moreau

57. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

56. “There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.” — Leo Christopher

55. “She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person.” — E. Leventhal

54. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

53. “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

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

51. “Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.” — Ernest Hemingway

50. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller

#49 – 40. Love Quotes

49. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” ― Sophocles

48. “In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.” – Theodor Reik

47. “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel

46. “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden

45. “You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.” – Nicolas Sparks

44. “It was always you.” — Maroon 5, “It Was Always You”

43. “P.S. I love you.” — Cecelia Ahern

42. “I love you and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

41. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” ― Marilyn Monroe

40. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft

#39 – 30. Love Quotes

39. “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” ― Pablo Neruda

38. “Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.” — J.D. Salinger

37. “We are shaped and fashioned by those we love.” — Geothe

36. “The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention.” – Richard Warren

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

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

33. “My heart is and always will be yours.” – Jane Austen

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

31. “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

30. “I love you right up to the moon—and back.” – Sam McBratney

#29 – 20. Love Quotes

29. “I will never be perfect for you, but I will always imperfectly try to be.” – Atticus

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

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

26. “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” — Leo Christopher

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

24. “All of me loves all of you.” — John Legend, “All of Me”

23. “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Pablo Coelho

22. “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo

21. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse

20. “We were together. I forget the rest.” — Walt Whitman

#19 – 10. Love Quotes

19. “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” – Albert Ellis

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

17. “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

16. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse

15. “A truly sensual woman is the kind of woman only a man with a deep soul can intoxicate and satiate.” ― Lebo Grand

14. “Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi

13. “Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” – Erica Baican

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

11. “I still haven’t figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do.” — William C. Hannan

10. “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

#9 – 1. Love Quotes

9. “If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” – Maya Angelou

8. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

7. “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

6. “We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.” – George W. Melville

5. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

4. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand

3. “And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.” — Sir Paul McCartney, “The End” (by The Beatles)

2. “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” — T. Tolis

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

Ideas for the top 101 love quotes were taken from the following sources. ^[1]Everyday Power – Deep Love Quotes: For When You Can’t Find The Words To Express How You Feel^[2]develop good habits – 78 Wise Quotes on Life, Love and Friendship^[3]goodreads – Love Quote^[4]your tango – 100 Love Quote That Say Exactly What ‘I Love You’ Means^[5]Brainy Quotes – Love Quote