64 Real love quotes

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

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

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