Love, in its myriad forms, has always been a profound source of inspiration for poets, authors, and thinkers throughout history. It is a universal language that transcends borders, cultures, and eras, embodying the deepest emotions and connections that humans can experience. Quotes about love, whether they capture its joy, its pain, or its transformative power, offer us glimpses into the essence of what it means to feel deeply connected to someone else.
These snippets of wisdom, extracted from the hearts and minds of those who have pondered love’s mysteries, serve as beacons guiding us through our own relationships and emotional journeys. They remind us that love, despite its complexities and challenges, remains one of the most compelling and cherished aspects of human life. As we delve into these quotes, we engage in a conversation with the ages, exploring the timeless and universal nature of love, and perhaps, uncovering new layers of understanding about our own hearts.
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? Katharine Anthony
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. Marc Chagall
Arsenal fans are real lovers of the game. They don’t miss anything in the stadium and are there for the team and the individual players. I have to admit I love banners like ‘We don’t need Batman, we’ve got Robin’ and stuff like that. Robin Van Persie
The pleasure in lovers’ gifts is that they are often covert and secretive, worn next to the skin, hidden under pillows. A. A. Gill
I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA. Kellie Pickler
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. Giovanni Boccaccio
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. Maurice Blanchot
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. Elizabeth Bowen
Some people love money, and some people love other things. I love music, and we are all lovers. Ilaiyaraaja
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. George Santayana
Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind. John Burroughs
Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home. Tony Snow
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. Jean de la Bruyere
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. Nicolas Chamfort
I’m definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves. Connie Nielsen
The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love. Rumi
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. John Cheever
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings – stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. Tom Hiddleston
Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters. Eden Ahbez
Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers. Ovid
It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing. Helen Rowland
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. Plato
Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere. Ivor Novello
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. Rumi
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers. Piers Anthony
Lovers may be – and indeed generally are – enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. Lord Byron
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. Alexander Chase
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! Marie de France
Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. Honore de Balzac
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. Lewis Mumford
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance. Minna Antrim
Eventually you love people – friends or lovers – because of their flaws. Karen Allen
You’re going to have haters and you’re going to have lovers. Nicole Polizzi
The anger of lovers renews their love. Terence
People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of ‘Wired’ magazine. Then things began to change. In the early ’80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy. Sherry Turkle
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? Jacques Lacan
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. Florence King
To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him. Saint Basil
I had a lovers quarrel with the world. Robert Frost
I’ve been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I’ve loved and the ideas I’ve embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it. Eve Babitz
Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today’s 3D movies. Ridley Scott
I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries. M. J. Rose
I have gone out with younger men, and they’re great fun; they’ve got enthusiasm. Stamina! But I think older men are much better lovers. Jerry Hall
Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love. Terence
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. Soren Kierkegaard
Though lovers be lost, love shall not. Dylan Thomas
The movies saved my life. I grew up in the great depression, the only child of a pair of star crossed lovers. My father lost his job. My mother drank. They fought. The movies were my escape. Orson Bean
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. Josef Skvorecky
It’s impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers. Dave Navarro
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? John Donne
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. Cyril Connolly
There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa. Alice Walton
Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing. Helen Rowland
In the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, there were many gay men who were unable to come out about the fact that their lovers were ill, A, and then dead, B. They were unable to get access to the hospital to see their lover, unable to call their parents and say, ‘I have just lost the love of my life.’ Judith Butler
If LGBT people can identify with our story, if they think, ‘The Golden Lovers are my team,’ I’m good with that. Kenny Omega
Sita and Ram were two strong individuals, and their love for each other is an example for lovers across the globe. Ashish Sharma
If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you’re brother and sister. That’s what intimacy is, if you’re with your soulmate. Cate Blanchett
Even fake news tries to convince us of its reality, but it does so mostly by appealing to your preconceived notions, your shared biases, or your prejudice. How to do the opposite? To create a sense of the real and then challenge your biases. I think that is my favourite aspect of writing, and that is what I’ve tried to do in ‘The Lovers.’ Amitava Kumar
Even in the deepest love relationship – when lovers say ‘I love you’ to each other – we don’t really know what we’re saying, because language isn’t equal to the complexity of human emotions. Duane Michals
I come from a family of greedy food lovers. Sophie Dahl
In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger’s brow, the muggy air stifles – one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act. Michael Dirda
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers. Denis Diderot
I’m more interested in interpersonal relationships – between lovers families, siblings. That’s why I write about how we treat each other. Terry McMillan
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Thucydides
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. Leonard Cohen
For someone who doesn’t even like love stories, I’ve played an awful lot of lovers. Shah Rukh Khan
Lovers should also have their days off. Natalie Clifford Barney
My mom, my dad, my two brothers – we’re all animal lovers. I think we love animals more than most people. Beth Ostrosky Stern
If it’s true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. Doris Day
‘Under the Poppy’ is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who’ve been parted by jealousy – and a secret betrayal by Istvan’s sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar. Kathe Koja
My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. Boz Scaggs
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations… Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers. Rumi
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. Lord Byron
Film lovers are sick people. Francois Truffaut
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Stephen King
Christians should not be the ones dividing over race in a racially charged environment. We are the peacemakers and the lovers of all men. We don’t seek vengeance. We forgive seventy times seven. John MacArthur
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. Mae West
I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me. Maya Angelou
We’re told that independent film lovers… folks that are used to watching art house films, won’t come out and see a film with black people in it – I’ve been told that in rooms, big rooms, studio rooms, and I know that’s not true. Ava DuVernay
Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star. Oscar Hammerstein II
Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love. Andy Gibb
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. Marilyn Monroe
I met Jim Jarmusch when I started recording my album ‘Ya Nass.’ He was writing the script for ‘Only Lovers Left Alive.’ Jarmusch was always a great inspiration to me, way before meeting him. Working with him was fantastic. Yasmine Hamdan
We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else’s Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude. Justine Musk
Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday. Christopher Hitchens
Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better. Sextus Propertius
I’ve always loved the ’40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers’ misunderstandings. Pearl Cleage
My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don’t know how I would have lived without animals around me. I’m fascinated by them – both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it’s made such a difference in my lifetime. Betty White
Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time. Axl Rose
A betrayal in a family is much more devastating than a betrayal among friends, or even lovers. Ari Aster
When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of ’em. Evan Dando
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. Sydney J. Harris
Lovers come back. Styles come back. But time? It never comes back. Juan Gabriel
There is no such thing as a lovers’ oath. Plato
We recognise that, with time, every human being will cease being, will only have been. And so we seek to resist time. We rebel against it. We are drawn like lovers to the unreachable past, to imagined memories, to nostalgia. Mohsin Hamid
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. Boethius
Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender. Nathan Myhrvold
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. Marya Mannes
