Best Quotes About True Love (Top 53)
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
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You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
Jodi Picoult
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
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True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
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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
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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
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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
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
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Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
Margery Williams
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
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True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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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
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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
Oscar Wilde
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We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch
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I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
Robert Browning
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Barbara de Angelis
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.
Swedish Proverb
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
Josephine Baker
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
Peace Pilgrim
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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
Philip Pullman
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it
François de La Rochefoucauld
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When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.
Joss Whedon
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The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other
Ashleigh Brilliant
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True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
Julia Roberts
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True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
Jim Bishop
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Love conquers all things.
Virgil
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan
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I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.
Meat Loaf
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You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
Keith Sweat
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
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I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.
John Lennon
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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Honore de Balzac
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Love is the only gold.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
George Farquhar
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The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
Israel Zangwill
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The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity
Helen Hayes
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde
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A relationship is like a rose,
How long it lasts, no one knows;
Love can erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you'll see at last;
To feel that love, it makes you sigh,
To have it leave, you'd rather die;
You hope you've found that special rose,
'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
Rob Cella
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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
Jennifer Aniston
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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
Kahlil Gibran
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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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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery