30 Of Our Favorite Quotes About Love

   30 Of Our Favorite Quotes About Love

If you're looking for the best way to express yourself, these sayings may give you fodder to the best Valentine's Day card of all time.

Ah, love. The elusive and ephemeral chemical experience that all humans want and crave. It's so powerful that it can be hard to describe. It's no wonder then that the topic may seem daunting for that very reason. But what better time than Valentine's Day to make an attempt at a grand gesture and expression of affection to the apple of your eye? Challenging as it may be, the task becomes much easier if you look to the love letters and sayings of some of the most famous writers, actors, and even philosophers from history. After all, they made names for themselves emoting and putting into words what most of us can't.

Whether you're looking to get yourself in the spirit for the love holiday, or need some inspiration for your Valentine's Day card, here are 30 of the very best quotes about love to guide you with some inspiration. Now all you have left to do is get a gift for that special someone.

1. "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

2. "Where there is love there is life." –Mahatma Gandhi

3. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."-Emily Brontë

4. "It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them." –Agatha Christie

5. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."–Victor Hugo

6. "In love there are two things– bodies and words." –Joyce Carol Oates

7. "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."–Zora Neale Hurston

8. "There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." –Friedrich Nietzsche

9. "Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold." –Zelda Fitzgerald

10. "Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."–Maya Angelou

11. "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."–Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

12. "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."–Joan Crawford

13. "I love her and it is the beginning of everything." –F. Scott Fitzgerald

14. "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."–Nora Ephron

15. "Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary."–Oscar Wilde

16. "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."— Oprah Winfrey

17. "Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you."— Dolly Parton

18. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.”— Jane Austen

19. "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."— Robert Frost

20. "The giving of love is an education in itself."— Eleanor Roosevelt

21. "Life is the flower for which love is the honey."— Victor Hugo

22. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."—Lao Tzu

23. "We are most alive when we are in love."—John Updike

24. "The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love."—Henry Miller

25. "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." —George Sand

26. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." —David Viscott

27. "Love does not dominate; it cultivates." —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

28. "Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces."—Rumi

29. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."—Aristotle

30. "There is no charm equal to tenderness of the heart."—Jane Austen

Thank you for reading. Wish you all a long happy love!