The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Timeless Love Quotes to Express Passion, Connection & Romance
Love is a universal emotion—timeless, powerful, and profoundly transformative. Love Quotes capture the essence of this feeling in its many forms: romantic love, unconditional and self-love, and even heartbreak. These heartfelt expressions speak to the soul, offering words that echo what we often feel but can’t quite articulate.
From poetic lines to passionate declarations, these quotes come from philosophers, poets, writers, and everyday people who’ve experienced love in all its beauty and complexity. One unforgettable example:
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle.
This line beautifully encapsulates the depth and unity love can bring.
Whether in love, missing someone, or reflecting on the meaning of relationships, this collection offers comfort and connection. These timeless words remind us of love’s enduring power to heal, unite, and uplift. Use them in wedding vows, Valentine’s Day cards, or to express your feelings.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
Who, being loved, is poor?
Hearts are made to be broken.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
True love stories never have endings.
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.
We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Love is the only gold.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.