Romantic Love Quotes to Inspire Your Heart

Immerse yourself in romantic and heartfelt love quotes. Celebrate love in all its forms from poets and authors around the world.

Image of Mark Van Doren
To fail to love is not to exist at all.
- Mark Van Doren
Collection: Love
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image of Khalil Gibran
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
- Khalil Gibran
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Image of George Washington Carver
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
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Image of Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Lou Holtz
When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
- Lou Holtz
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Image of Rumi
I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'
- Rumi
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Image of Taylor Swift
Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
- Taylor Swift
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Audrey Hepburn
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
- Audrey Hepburn
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Maya Angelou
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.
- Maya Angelou
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Image of Bertrand Russell
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Lawrence Durrell
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
- Lawrence Durrell
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Image of Mother Teresa
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
- Mother Teresa
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Image of Lao Tzu
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
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Image of William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not show their love.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Image of Rumi
Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.
- Rumi
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Image of Iris Apfel
I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.
- Iris Apfel
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image of Saint Augustine
Love, and do what you like.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Jesus Christ
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
- Jesus Christ
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Image of Vincent Van Gogh
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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Image of Taylor Swift
No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
- Taylor Swift
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Image of Oscar Wilde
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Rumi
The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
- Rumi
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Image of Victor Hugo
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
- Victor Hugo
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Image of Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
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Image of Tracy Morgan
They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me.
- Tracy Morgan
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Image of Taylor Swift
I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.
- Taylor Swift
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Image of Douglas William Jerrold
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
- Douglas William Jerrold
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Image of Robert Browning
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
- Robert Browning
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Image of A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Everybody should start listening to love songs.
- A Boogie wit da Hoodie
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Image of Adrianne Palicki
I love a sandwich that you can barely fit in your mouth because there's so much stuff on it. The bread should not be the main thing on a sandwich.
- Adrianne Palicki
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Image of A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Not everyone's really got the heart to talk about what's going on with their love in their music.
- A Boogie wit da Hoodie
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Image of A Boogie wit da Hoodie
This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.
- A Boogie wit da Hoodie
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Image of Peter Ustinov
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov
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Image of Rabindranath Tagore
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
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Image of Elbert Hubbard
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Image of Alphonse de Lamartine
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
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Image of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you wished to be loved, love.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Image of e. e. cummings
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
- e. e. cummings
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Image of Paul Valery
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
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Image of Marcel Proust
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
- Marcel Proust
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Image of Leo Buscaglia
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
- Leo Buscaglia
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Image of Thomas a Kempis
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
- Thomas a Kempis
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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