64 Real love quotes
1-Romance is the glamour which turns
the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
Elinor Glyn
2-“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you
fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
Albert Einstein
3-“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories,
that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two
beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in
this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
Victor Hugo, Les
Misérables
4-“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea:
what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
Percy Bysshe
Shelley
5-“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into
giving.”
Mother Theresa
6-“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
William
Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
7-“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love
should be.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna
Karenina
8-“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a
unique and irreplaceable being.”
Tom Robbins,
Jitterbug Perfume
9-“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
Mitch Albom
10-“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my
sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
e. e. cummings
11-“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that
the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is
nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes
before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to
hell in a matter of seconds.”
Paulo Coelho,
Eleven Minutes
12-“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby-
awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
Lemony Snicket,
Horseradish
13-“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
14-“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We
are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can
break open the sky.”
Walter Mosley,
Blue Light
15-“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby-
awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
Lemony Snicket,
Horseradish
16-“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for
sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand
words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while
you sleep & there are no words for that.”
Brian Andreas,
Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas
17-“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.”
Sarah Dessen, The
Truth About Forever
18-“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to
love them when they are there in front of you.”
John Updike, My
Father's Tears and Other Stories
19-“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's
all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move
them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens.
Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance
with it.”
Mitch Albom
20-“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you
knew.”
Arrigo Boito
21-“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels
loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
22- “What she had realized was that love was that moment when
your heart was about to burst.”
Stieg Larsson, The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
23-“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
E.E. Cummings
“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a
heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
Rainbow Rowell,
Eleanor & Park
24-“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
Julio Cortázar
25-“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking.
It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it
holds.”
Rita Mae Brown,
Riding Shotgun
26-“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
Honoré de Balzac,
Physiologie Du Mariage
27-“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the
purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are
so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and,
giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere
living death.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
28-“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on
tighter.”
Melissa Marr, Ink
Exchange
29-“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone.
They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”
Mitch Albom, For
One More Day
30-“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but
end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
Fannie Flagg,
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
31-“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
Lauren Conrad
32-“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as
the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
Francois Duc de la
Rochefoucauld, Maxims
33-“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to
make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I
do, and that sight becomes this art.”
Rumi
34-“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the
point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the
fighting for?”
Stephanie Lennox,
I Don't Remember You
35-“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the
trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get
over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new
people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone
who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in
my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want
them to?”
Jeanette
Winterson, Written on the Body
36- “I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will
still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate
softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full
of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen
flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark
upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it
all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the
last breath leaves your body or mine.”
Laurell K.
Hamilton, A Lick of Frost
37-“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always
seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts
someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling
smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
Jodi Picoult,
Mercy
38-“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with.
The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world
you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who
will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say
them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body.
I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to
touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do
want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”
Tahereh Mafi,
Unravel Me
39-“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like
unrequited love.”
Charles M. Schulz
40-“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
41-“I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving
me.”
Audrey Niffenegger,
The Time Traveler's Wife
42-“The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken
by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful
or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as
I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine.”
Stephenie Meyer,
New Moon
43-“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly,
between the shadow and the soul.”
Pablo Neruda, 100
Love Sonnets
44-“About all you can do in life is being who you are. Some
people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them,
and some won't like you at all.”
Rita Mae Brown
45-“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in
my life.”
Nicholas Sparks,
The Choice
46-“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
William
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
47-“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If
love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each
other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay
forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
Erich Fromm, The
Art of Loving
48-“Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly
knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it
from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty
chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you”
stephenie meyer,
Twilight
49-“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer
days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty
common years could ever contain.”
John Keats, Bright
Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
50-“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one
person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with
that person.”
Haruki Murakami,
1Q84
51-“Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think
even when you heal, you're never what you were before".
Cassandra Clare,
City of Fallen Angels
52-“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can
change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time
on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with
people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
53-“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as
you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you
know he will strangle you with his panic.”
Anais Nin
54-“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms
around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”
Deb Caletti
55-“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry,
or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses,
because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
Ellen Goodman
56-“Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy
57--Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love.
Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common
sense. Dignity.”
Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
58-“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being
to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to
know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's
essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we
really know anything important about anyone?”
Haruki Murakami,
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
59-“People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and
even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an
expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you
to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their
happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that
responsibility.”
Katja Millay, The
Sea of Tranquility
60- “I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to
someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they
expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
Jodi Picoult, My
Sister's Keeper
61-“I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or
their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your
heart can understand.”
L.J. Smith
62-“You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a
future worth having.”
Simone Elkeles,
Perfect Chemistry
51-“When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll
suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
Ian McEwan,
Enduring Love
63-“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and
that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in
the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Sharon Salzberg
64-“Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They
never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”
Whitney Otto, How
to Make an American Quilt