Authors, poets and playwrights have been trying to capture love in words for thousands of years. Their work speaks to the enduring power of love across the ages of human history.
Check out this collection of quotes about love from some of the world’s most famous personalities :
1. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
2. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
3. My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
4. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
5. Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
- Henry Ward Beecher
6. Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
7. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
8. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
9. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.
- Leo Tolstoy
10. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
- Pablo Neruda, “Love Sonnet XVII”
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