Valentine's Day Love Quotations: The Best Love Quotes of All Time

This is a collection of some of the most lovely quotes about love that I know just in time for Valentine's Day (but wonderful at any time of year).

Romantic love quotes on a handmade greeting card can make a beautiful romantic gesture towards your loved one.

I think what makes many of these love quotes famous is how they so fully capture that loving feeling. We all need to feel loved, after all.

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No... don't blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn't sound very exciting, does it? But it is!
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
-Victor Hugo

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
-Mahatma Gandhi

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it
flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
- Matt Groening

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but
for another give it ease, and build a Heaven in Hell's despair.
- William Blake

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
- John 13:34-35

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
- Anton Chekhov

And think not you can Direct the course of love, For love, If it finds you worthy, Directs your course.
- Kahlil Gibran

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
- W. H. Auden

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
- Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
- Charles Dickens

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
Willa Cather

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
Alexandria Penney

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal

The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
Douglas Yates

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu

Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
-Elizabeth Browning

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I
am with you.
- Roy Croft

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if
you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
- Sir James M. Barrie

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and
soften and purify the heart.
-Washington Irving

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden
to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the grail, and the journey is always towards the other soul, not away from it... To love you have to learn to understand the other, more than she understands herself, and to submit to her understanding of you. It is damnably difficult and painful, but it is the only thing which endures.
-D. H. Lawrence

There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio.
What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth
living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each
is the same: only love.
- Don Juan (Johnny Depp), Don Juan de Marco

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
-John Keats

Westley: I told you I would always come for you.
Why didn't you wait for me?
Buttercup: Well...You were dead.
Westley: Death cannot stop true love. The worst
it can do is delay it for a while.
Buttercup: I will never doubt again.
Westley: There will never be a need
- The Princess Bride

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just,
as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of
kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind
blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
- Francis Duc de la Rochefoucauld