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Love is not just one thing, it’s many things. It’s sacrifice, courage, warmth, friendship, heartbreak, and healing. The Greeks had multiple words for love for a reason: love wears many faces, and each one tells a story about who we are and what we care about most.
In this collection of quotes about love, true love, friendship, and self-love, you’ll find insights from great minds across time, philosophers, poets, scientists, and artists, who all tried to capture what makes love so powerful and so necessary.
Whether you’re reflecting on romantic love, deep friendships, or the journey to loving yourself, these quotes offer a multidimensional view of love that is as raw as it is beautiful.
Quotes About the Power and Nature of Love
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” – Leo Tolstoy, Fruits of Culture
“They do not love, that do not show their love.” – William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
“Love without sacrifice is theft (Procrustes). This applies to any form of love, particularly the love of God.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.” – Sigmund Freud
“The love problem is part of mankind’s heavy toll of suffering, and nobody should be ashamed of having to pay his or her tribute.” – Carl Jung
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love
Quotes About True Love and Deep Connection
“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
“True love stories never have endings.” ― Richard Bach
“To good and true love fear is forever affixed.” ― Francois Rabelais
“True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.” ― Sadhu Vaswani
“Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.” ― Tom Freston
“True love is forever.” ― Fabio Lanzoni
“True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!” ― Dada Vaswani
“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
“Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.” ― Billy Graham
“True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.” ― Justin Timberlake
“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” ―
“Life is a game and true love is a trophy.” ― Rufus Wainwright
Quotes About Self-Love and Loving Others Better
“Love yourself first and everything falls into line.” – Lucille Ball
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
“Be worthy love, and love will come.” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“Whose love did you crave most? What did you feel like you had to do or be to get it?” – Tony Robbins
Quotes About Friendship and Platonic Love
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu