100 Best Love Quotes For Him And Her

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” ― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…” ― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” ― Blaise Pascal

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach” ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“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

“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

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” ― Gautama Buddha

“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“As if you were on fire from within.  The moon lives in the lining of your skin.” ― Pablo Neruda

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“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

“I’m not sentimental–I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last–the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.” ― David Nicholls, One Day

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.” ― Lauren Conrad

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” ― José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love

“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

“Being with you never felt wrong. It’s the one thing I did right. You’re the one thing I did right.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn’t even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.” ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“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

“If you stay, I’ll do whatever you want. I’ll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I’ll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it’d be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I’d do it. I can lose you like that if I don’t lose you today. I’ll let you go. If you stay.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“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

“If you love and get hurt, love more.  If you love more and hurt more, love even more.  If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more…” ― William Shakespeare

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.” ― John Henry Newman

“From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

“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 Cafe

“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

“Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.” ― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” ― Charles M. Schulz

“If you love something set it free, but don’t be surprised if it comes back with herpes.” ― Chuck Palahniuk

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.” ― André Breton, What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer

“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“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

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.” ― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“Sometimes when I’m alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.” ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“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

“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

“Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.” ― Fred Rogers

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ” ― Elinor Glyn

“sometimes you don’t need a goal in life, you don’t need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you’re going to do next!” ― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“Come sleep with me: We won’t make Love,Love will make us.” ― Julio Cortázar

“When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“About all you can do in life is be 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

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” ― E.E. Cummings

“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.” ― Scott Westerfeld

“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren’t having any of those.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.” ― D.H. Lawrence

“love, I’ve come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.” ― Nicholas Sparks

“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

“Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“I’m oxygen and he’s dying to breathe.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller’s felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ― Khalil Gibran

“You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince” ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“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

“It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” ― Mary Oliver

“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

“I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. ” ― Marilyn Monroe

“I’m about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word “busy” is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you’re going to find is a man who didn’t care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.” ― Greg Behrendt

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” ― Anaïs Nin

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves” ― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.” ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“I’d learned that some things are best kept secret.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I’m sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.” ― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us

“Just because you’re beautiful and perfect, it’s made you conceited.” ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“And next time you’re planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart” ― Tammara Webber, Easy

“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.” ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ― Mother Teresa

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything” ― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.” ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.” ― Mitch Albom

“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

“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

“You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.” ― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.” ― Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love

“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.” ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Someday you’ll find someone special again. People who’ve been in love once usually do. It’s in their nature.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” ― Mother Teresa

“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.” ― Nicholas Sparks

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” ― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature

“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

“I’ll fight it. I’ll fight it for you. Don’t you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I’m okay. I’ll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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