Famous love quotes – What the stars have to say about love!!
“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” -St. Augustine
No doubt, this is probably one of the most famous love quotes of all time.
Incidentally it was also one of the first love quotes that I ever heard and I can still visualise my Mother reciting this famous phrase when I was just 13 years old.
Is it fair to say that a 13 year old could relate to such a phrase at this tender age?
Most probably not but at the time I truly believed I knew everything that there was to know about love or famous love quotes; no doubt like most 13 year olds believe.
To bring a long story to an end without dragging you unnecessarily through the quagmire of pain and misery that my first relationship transpired to be, I had been dumped.
To add insult to injury, I had been dumped by first ever girlfriend because she fancied my best mate more than she fancied me.
I know what your thinking. Another typical ‘Greek tragedy’ unfolding in a regular adolescent upbringing.
But no pain is alike when we lose in love and each loss is alike to the mourning stages of death. It doesn’t matter if your 13 or 73, love is love and the loss leads to an emotional upheaval.
So with my heart truly broken and with big sad tears streaming my face I asked my Mother ‘Why’?
“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”
It is only now, 25 years since that day that I understand the meaning of this famous love quote.
We all lose and gain when it comes to love. Being famous doesn’t mean you are immune to this fact. In most instances the chances for happiness and ever lasting love can sometimes become even rarer for the famous as there are more tempting factors that may lead them astray.
Read on to find a wealth or quotes, pictures, speeches and poems some of them famous, some of them not. What you will find are moments of your own life echoed in the words of these famous love quotes.
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
-Franklin P. Jones
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
-Plato
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
-Robert Frost
“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 the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
-Henry Louis Mencken
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
-E. Joseph Cossman
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
-Erich Segal
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” –Voltaire
“They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.”
-William Shakespeare
“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”
-Lord Byron
“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.”
-Abraham Crowley
“So much of what we know of love we learn at home.”
-unknown
“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.”
-unknown
“Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.”
-unknown
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
-Saint-Exupery
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
-Ingrid Bergman
“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
-John Donne
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.”
-Joseph Conrad
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
-La Rochefoucauld
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
-Christopher Marlowe
“Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.”
-Houssaye
“We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.”
-La Bruyere
“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”
-St. Augustine
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
-Les Miserables
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
-Alexander Smith
“When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.”
-La Rochefoucauld
“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.”
-Charles Caleb Colton
“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”
-Lawrence Durrell
“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”
-La Rochefoucauld
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
-Stendhal
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
-Thoreau
“Blushing is the color of virtue.”
-Diogenes
“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”
-Leo F. Buscaglia
“Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
-Dr. Karl Menninger
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbour… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”
-Mother Theresa
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