101 Love Quotes Everyone Should Know

We don’t care if you call us cheesy, love quotes are awesome. Whether it’s a particularly poignant moment from a celebrity, a memorable line from a book, or a poet speaking the honest truth, a good love quote can shift the way you think about the world. Here are the love quotes that strike us as remarkably true.

101. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

100. “We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.” – Tom Robbins

99. “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” – Lady Gaga

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

97.”The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.” – Woody Allen

96. “You deserve love, and you’ll get it.” – Amy Poehler

95.”Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” – C.S. Lewis

94.”I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart).” – ee cummings

93.”Give in to love, or live in fear.” – Jonathan Larson, “Rent”

92.”If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.” – Johnny Depp

91. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” – Pablo Neruda 

90.”Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

89.”Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein

88.”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

87.”To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis

86.”Love cannot save you from your own fate.” – Jim Morrison

85.”When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it—always.” – Mahatma Gandhi

84.”I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” – Pablo Neruda

83. “If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare

82.”Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” – John Lennon

81.”Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” – Oscar Wilde

80.”Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (The New Jerusalem Bible)

79.”Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne

78.”Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde

77. “Love is blind. And it will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.” – Eve

76.”You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Oscar Wilde

75. “Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.” – Dolly Parton

74.”There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

73.”I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.” – Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

72.”It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – André Gide

71.”What is love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.” – Victor Hugo

70.”Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn’t breaking. It hurts because it’s getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.” – Rita Mae Brown

69.”You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.” – Jane Austen

68.”It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

67.”Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.” – Haruki Murakami

66. “Men are a luxury. Not a necessity.” – Cher

65.”Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” – François de La Rochefoucauld

64.”What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

63. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna

62.”How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

61.”I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald (on his wife, Zelda)

60.”Piglet: ‘How do you spell ‘love’?’ Winnie the Pooh: ‘You don’t spell it…you feel it.’” – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

59.”Love can make even nice people do awful things.” – Jude Deveraux

58. “Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” – Oprah

57.”Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou

56. “No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along.” – Joyce Brothers

55.”My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.” – André Breton (What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings)

54.”A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Kurt Vonnegut

53.”Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” – Elinor Glyn

52.”‘You’ll get over it…’ It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it’ is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?” – Jeanette Winterson

51.”About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.” – Rita Mae Brown

50.”The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.” – Tom Robbins

49.”To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

48.”This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.” – Paulo Coelho

47.”I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” – Pablo Neruda

46.”There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.” – Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife)

45. “You only learn to love again when you fall in love again.” – Adele

44. “The greater your capacity to feel love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.” – Jennifer Aniston

43. “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” – Thomas Carlyle

42. “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” – Brendan Francis

41. “Do not seek the because—in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” – Anais Nin

40. “You know when you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

39. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball

38. “‘Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you’re making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don’t care who sees, ’cause baby you got me so crazy.” – Beyonce, “Crazy in Love”