Best Love Quotes (Top 100)

Top 1–20: Short & Sweet Love Quotes (Easy Captions)

Perfect for Instagram, cards, and quick "thinking of you" texts, these are timeless love lines you can copy/paste in seconds.

1. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies".

   — Aristotle

2. "Where there is love there is life".

   — Mahatma Gandhi

3. "We accept the love we think we deserve".

   — Stephen Chbosky

4. "Love is friendship that has caught fire".

   — Ann Landers

5. "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other".

   — Audrey Hepburn

6. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides".

   — David Viscott

7. "Love recognizes no barriers".

   — Maya Angelou

8. "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds".

   — William Shakespeare

9. "If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets".

   — Haruki Murakami

10. "The giving of love is an education in itself".

    — Eleanor Roosevelt

11. "Love is the greatest refreshment in life".

    — Pablo Picasso

12. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet".

    — Plato

13. "Love is the flower you've got to let grow".

    — John Lennon

14. "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs".

    — William Shakespeare

15. "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be".

    — Robert Browning

16. "We loved with a love that was more than love".

    — Edgar Allan Poe

17. "There is always some madness in love".

    — Friedrich Nietzsche

18. "Love does not dominate; it cultivates".

    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

19. "Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat".

    — Ben Hecht

20. "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing".

    — Blaise Pascal

Top 21–40: Deep Love Quotes (Meaningful & Real)

Use these when you want your message to feel honest, grown-up, and lasting, great for letters, vows, and serious anniversaries.

21. "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend".

    — Martin Luther King Jr.

22. "The more one judges, the less one loves".

    — Honoré de Balzac

23. "Love is an act of endless forgiveness".

    — Peter Ustinov

24. "We can only learn to love by loving".

    — Iris Murdoch

25. "To love someone means to see him as God intended him".

    — Fyodor Dostoevsky

26. "Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution".

    — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

27. "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence".

    — Erich Fromm

28. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return".

    — Eden Ahbez

29. "Love is an action, never simply a feeling".

    — bell hooks

30. "Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own".

    — Robert A. Heinlein

31. "There is no remedy for love but to love more".

    — Henry David Thoreau

32. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love".

    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

33. "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone, we find it with another".

    — Thomas Merton

34. "Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it".

    — Nicholas Sparks

35. "Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself".

    — Kahlil Gibran

36. "Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear".

    — e.e. cummings

37. "To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow, this is a human offering that can border on miraculous".

    — Elizabeth Gilbert

38. "Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good".

    — C.S. Lewis

39. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages".

    — Friedrich Nietzsche

40. "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within".

    — James Baldwin

Top 41–60: Funny Love Quotes (Playful & Flirty)

For couples who laugh together. These are great for lighthearted cards, wedding speeches, and "I like you a lot" captions.

41. "Love is sharing your popcorn".

    — Charles M. Schulz

42. "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt".

    — Charles M. Schulz

43. "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"

    — Groucho Marx

44. "My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met".

    — Rodney Dangerfield

45. "Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke".

    — Lynda Barry

46. "The heart has its reasons, and the reason has its excuses".

    — Mignon McLaughlin

47. "A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him".

    — Brendan Behan

48. "Love is a lot like a backache: it doesn't show up on X-rays".

    — George Burns

49. "Love is blind".

    — Geoffrey Chaucer

50. "To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving".

    — Woody Allen

51. "The course of true love never did run smooth".

    — William Shakespeare

52. "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it".

    — Lyndon B. Johnson

53. "Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage".

    — Ambrose Bierce

54. "A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear".

    — Edmond Rostand

55. "If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"

    — Lily Tomlin

56. "Love is a serious mental disease".

    — Plato

57. "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop".

    — H. L. Mencken

58. "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished".

    — Zsa Zsa Gabor

59. "Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence".

    — Oscar Wilde

60. "Husbands are like fires, they go out when unattended".

    — Zsa Zsa Gabor

Top 61–80: Poetic & Classic Love Quotes (Literature's Greatest Lines)

These romantic classics are perfect for weddings, anniversary notes, and anyone who wants love to sound beautifully said.

61. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways".

    — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

62. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate".

    — William Shakespeare

63. "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind".

    — William Shakespeare

64. "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep".

    — William Shakespeare

65. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same".

    — Emily Brontë

66. "If I loved you less— I might be able to talk about it more".

    — Jane Austen

67. "You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope".

    — Jane Austen

68. "In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine".

    — Maya Angelou

69. "Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole".

    — Plato

70. "I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love".

    — Gabriel García Márquez

71. "You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love".

    — Franz Kafka

72. "Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides".

    — Louis de Bernières

73. "If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me".

    — W. H. Auden

74. "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)".

    — e.e. cummings

75. "I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul".

    — Pablo Neruda

76. "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination".

    — Voltaire

77. "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart".

    — Jane Austen

78. "Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it".

    — Rabindranath Tagore

79. "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine".

    — Song of Solomon

80. "To love another person is to see the face of God".

    — Victor Hugo

Top 81–100: Soulmate & Forever Love Quotes (Commitment & Destiny)

For long-term love, vows, engagements, and "you're my person" moments, these quotes focus on commitment, faithfulness, and forever.

81. "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction".

    — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

82. "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person".

    — Mignon McLaughlin

83. "I would not wish any companion in the world but you".

    — William Shakespeare

84. "If I know what love is, it is because of you".

    — Hermann Hesse

85. "Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time".

    — Germaine de Staël

86. "I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day".

    — Nicholas Sparks

87. "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed".

    — Jane Austen

88. "To love at all is to be vulnerable".

    — C.S. Lewis

89. "I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever".

    — Rabindranath Tagore

90. "Love is life. All, everything that I understand— I understand only because I love".

    — Leo Tolstoy

91. "If you live to be a hundred— I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you".

    — A. A. Milne

92. "For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love".

    — Carl Sagan

93. "Love is a game that two can play and both win".

    — Eva Gabor

94. "Love is patient, love is kind".

    — 1 Corinthians 13:4

95. "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it".

    — Song of Solomon

96. "Real love stories never have endings".

    — Richard Bach

97. "Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you".

    — Kahlil Gibran

98. "Love and a cough cannot be hid".

    — George Herbert

99. "you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars".

    — e.e. cummings

100. "This is true love. You think this happens every day?"

     — William Goldman

Quick Tips for Using These Love Quotes (Copy— Paste— Personalize)

For a message that feels truly yours, pair a quote with one personal line: why it reminded you of them, what you appreciate, or when you felt it most.