Love is a universal emotion, and true love is something that each of us wishes to find.
But even if you haven’t found “The One” just yet, engaging in love-related things, such as movies, books, songs, quotes, and sayings can make you feel the love. No matter how fleeting, the feeling you get is still a heartwarming experience.
That being said, continue reading as we share 90 amazing true love quotes that will make your hopeless romantic heart sing.
Some of these quotes are inspirational and powerful, while others are humorous or deeply romantic. Each relationship is unique, so keep reading to see which one best describes your situation.
90 True Love Quotes
Quotes on True Love
You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.
– Jodi Picoult
When I say I love you more, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most.
– Unknown
I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.
– J.R.R. Tolkien
True love – that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy – is a choice. It’s a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances.
– Mark Manson
To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.
– T. Tolis
True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
– Ricardo Montalban
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
– Mortimer Adler
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.
– Ellen G. White
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
– Honore de Balzac
You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
– Karen Salmansohn
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
– The Princess Bride
I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.
– Angelita Lim
True love stories never have endings.
– Richard Bach
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
– Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
– Sadhu Vaswani
The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else’s flaws, so of course you’re gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, ‘If you loved me, you wouldn’t criticise me.’ Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.
– Alain de Botton
The course of true love never did run smooth.
– William Shakespeare
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that’s it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.
– Joan Chen
Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.
– Gwendoline Christie
Best quotes for love
To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.
– Valerie Lombardo
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.
– Leo Christopher
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
– Moliere
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.
– Morrie Schwartz
Love understands love; it needs no talk.
– Francis Havergal
Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.
– Margaret Walker
Love brings to life whatever is dead around us.
– Franz Rosenzweig
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
– Khalil Gibran
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
– James Baldwin
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
– Oscar Wilde
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
– Plato
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
– Judy Garland
For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
– Rosemonde Gérard
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
– Robert Frost
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
– Henry David Thoreau
Powerful love quotes
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
– Hermann Hesse
Ask me to define my love for you and I’ll say it’s captured in every beautiful memory of our past, detailed out in vivid visions of our dreams and future plans, but most of all it’s right now, at the moment where everything I’ve ever wanted in my life is standing right in front of me.
– Leo Christopher
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
– Nicholas Sparks
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
– Sophocles
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.
– Lao Tzu
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
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
– Sinclair Lewis
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
I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.
– Song of Solomon 6:3
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
– Lao Tzu
Romantic love quotes
I am very indecisive and always have trouble picking my favorite anything. But, without a doubt, you are my favorite everything.
– Unknown
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
– A. A. Milne
When I tell you I love you, I am not saying it out of habit; I am reminding you that you are my life.
– Unknown
Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.
– Inconnu
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said to have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
– George Moore
I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.
– Unknown
A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.
– Henry Wadsworth
Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
– Franklin P. Jones
No matter what happens, I will never, not in a thousand tragic outcomes, ever regret loving you.
– Sara Raasch, Frost Like Night
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
– Dr. Seuss
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.
– Alfred Tennyson
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
– Maya Angelou
If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you.
– DeAnna Anderson
Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth.
– Eleanor Di Guillo
I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.
– Coco J. Ginger
Funny love quotes
I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.
– Elizabeth Evans
You stole my heart, but I’ll let you keep it.
– Unknown
Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.
– George Burns
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
– Samuel Lover
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
– Charles Schulz
If you love ’em in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love ’em at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
– Miles Davis
Romantic love is a mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one.
– Fran Lebowitz
A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.
– Tim Allen
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
– Socrates
Behind every angry woman stands a man who has absolutely no idea what he did wrong.
– Unknown
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
– Jules Renard
You can’t put a price tag on love. But if you could, I’d wait for it to go on sale.
– Hussein Nishah
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.
– Sharon Stone
Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in.
– Richard Jeni
When you’re in love, it’s the most glorious two-and-a-half days of your life.
– Richard Lewis
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
– Henry Youngman
Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
– Christopher Marlowe
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
– Lily Tomlin
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
– Mae West
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
– Benjamin Franklin
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby — awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
– Lemony Snicket
If you can stay in love for more than two years, you’re on something.
– Fran Lebowitz
Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.
– Carroll Bryant
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
– Erich Segal
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
– Francois de la Rochefoucauld
What are the signs of true love
While books, movies, and songs can say a lot about love, from being passionate to being damn romantic, love in real life is a lot more subdued.
This is not to say that true love does not exist. It’s just that in real life, true love is not about grand gestures or epic adventures. It’s more of putting up with each other’s weirdness.
It’s about sticking together through fires, floods, laundry, boring dishes, bills, failures, and setbacks. Accepting them for who they are and what they are capable of becoming. Helping each other to develop into their best selves.
True love is not something you can label. True love is a relationship that you build, work on, fight for, deepen, strengthen, and keep. It’s not just about passion. It is facing life and all of its uncertainties together and living it to the fullest.
So, given all of this, how can you tell if your feelings for your partner are genuine? What are the signs? Well, you can relax knowing that have found true love, when in your relationship you:
- want to improve yourself,
- want to be there for your partner in good times or bad,
- are confident in your relationship,
- are your true self with your partner with no pretensions,
- show your vulnerable side,
- feel that the love is just natural and so right,
- are willing to sacrifice,
- share each other’s success,
- fight, talk it out, kiss, and make-up,
- know that your happiness is not reliant on your partner,
- want to make your partner happy,
- open up, share your thoughts and feelings,
- let go of any preconceived notions or biases you have about what true love should be. Things that have traditionally been the most important in a relationship — great sex, good hair, a good job — can appear insignificant.
Conclusion
To conclude, true love is hard to define, only felt. And what a truly magnificent feeling it can be.
As such, true love is something that each of us wishes to find. It’s a feeling that transcends time, personalities, egos, and ideas. Something that makes the world a better place.
For those in a relationship, the quotes we shared can help remind you on a daily basis why you fell in love with your partner. Read them every day and use them to show your partner how much you care.
For you who are still looking for “The One”, read the quotes each time you want your romantic heart to feel alive. And when you find yourself in a relationship, come back to this article to check if what you feel are signs of true love.
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