Love has inspired many a novel, film, speech and other art forms. Quotations and sayings about love can be inspirational, humorous or even sad.
Valentines Day, wedding anniversaries, birthdays and the holidays are occasions when a funny or inspiring quotation about love may come in handy. In fact, there's lots of quotes about Valentines Day in particular - a holiday that inspires cynicism among both single and married people alike.
The following love quotes, Valentines Day sayings and quotations on affection will make the perfect addition to a holiday greeting card or scrapbook, among many other things.
- "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~ Robert Frost
- "Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." ~ Robert Heinlin
- "If you ever think of me out of the blue, just remember it's all the kisses I've blown in the air finally catching up with you." ~ Unknown
- "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." ~ Plato
- "Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved." ~ Victor Hugo
- "Love is grand. Divorce is a hundred grand." ~ Unknown
- "I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love." ~ Mother Teresa
- "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." ~ Franklin P. Jones
- "Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love." ~ Albert Einstein
- "Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life." ~ Lord Byron
- "When you're in love with someone, it inspires you and gives you hope. You have faith that even if you can't be with them on earth, that if God wills, you will be with them one day in heaven." ~ Unknown
- "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." ~ Henry Louis Mencken
- "The hottest love has the coldest end." ~ Socrates
- "Immature love says, ' love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.'" ~ Erich Fromm
- "Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love." ~ St. Francis of Assisi
- "You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it." ~ Henny Youngman
- "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing." ~ Anais Nin
- "A life without love is like a year without summer." ~ Sweedish Proverb
- "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." ~ Helen Keller
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