115 Timeless Quotes About Love & Life

115 Timeless Quotes About Love & Life


Great words create great feelings. Everyday gratitude triggers oxytocin—the “bonding hormone” linked to happier relationships. Keep this list handy for cards, captions or a surprise text—and pair your favorite line with a matching couple hoodie or custom canvas print.


Epic Love Quotes

Soul-stirring lines for shouting your feelings from the rooftops.

  • “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”Emily Brontë
  • “We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allan Poe
  • “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
  • “You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” — E. E. Cummings
  • “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”Robert Browning
  • “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”Plato
  • “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, and arrives at its destination full of hope.”Maya Angelou
  • “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”David Viscott
  • “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”Audrey Hepburn
  • “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”Sophocles
  • “True love stories never have endings.”Richard Bach
  • “Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same.”Emily Brontë
  • “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”Lao Tzu
  • “You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”Oscar Wilde
  • “Love is an endless act of forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit.”Peter Ustinov

Life Wisdom Quotes

Philosophical gems that blend life lessons with heartfelt affection.

  • “Where there is love there is life.”Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”Kahlil Gibran
  • “The purpose of life is to be happy.” — Lao Tzu
  • “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.”Bob Marley
  • “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
  • “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”Goethe
  • “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”Victor Hugo
  • “Love is the only reality.”Rabindranath Tagore
  • “Your task is not to seek love, but to find the barriers within yourself.”Rumi
  • “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”Victor Hugo
  • “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”Oscar Wilde
  • “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden.”Oscar Wilde
  • “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”John Lennon
  • “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”Rumi

Romantic Movie & Book Quotes

Lines from stories that still make us swoon.

  • “If you're a bird, I'm a bird.” — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
  • “After all this time?” “Always.” — Harry Potter
  • “You have bewitched me body and soul.”Pride & Prejudice
  • “I wish I knew how to quit you.”Brokeback Mountain
  • “Here’s looking at you, kid.”Casablanca
  • “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”Lord of the Rings
  • “To me, you are perfect.”Love Actually
  • “You make me want to be a better man.”As Good as It Gets
  • “So it’s not gonna be easy, but I’m gonna work at this every day.”The Notebook
  • “I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame.”Outlander
  • “You had me at hello.”Jerry Maguire
  • “I am catastrophically in love with you.”The Fault in Our Stars
  • “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”When Harry Met Sally
  • “It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”The Fault in Our Stars
  • “I like you very much. Just as you are.”Bridget Jones’s Diary

Humorous & Playful Quotes

Because laughter is the spark that keeps love new.

  • “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me.” — Winston Churchill
  • “Love is sharing your popcorn.”Charles M. Schulz
  • “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”Charles M. Schulz
  • “Before you marry a person, make them use slow Internet.”Will Ferrell
  • “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”Albert Einstein
  • “Love is blind—marriage is a real eye-opener.”Pauline Thomason
  • “If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?”Lily Tomlin
  • “You can’t put a price on love, but if you could I'd wait for it to be on sale.”Unknown
  • “I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.”Unknown
  • “Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.”Groucho Marx
  • “Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.”Lord Dewar
  • “I’m in love with you and all your little things… except leaving dishes in the sink.”Unknown
  • “A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.”Spanish Proverb
  • “If you can stay in love for more than two years, you’re on something.”Fran Lebowitz
  • “Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”Jules Renard

Self-Love & Growth Quotes

Loving yourself makes space to love others fully.

  • “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”Buddha
  • “Talk to yourself like someone you love.”Brené Brown
  • “Owning our story and loving ourselves through it is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.”Brené Brown
  • “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”Robert Morley
  • “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”Rupi Kaur
  • “You are enough just as you are.”Meghan Markle
  • “Be the love you never received.”Rune Lazuli
  • “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”William Shakespeare
  • “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”Steve Maraboli
  • “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves.”Brené Brown
  • “You owe yourself the love that you so freely give to other people.”Unknown
  • “The things that make me different are the things that make me.”Winnie the Pooh
  • “Never apologize for being yourself.”Paulo Coelho
  • “You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.”Song of Solomon 4:7
  • “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”Oscar Wilde

Short & Sweet One-Liners

Tiny sentences—huge heart. Copy-paste in five seconds flat.

  • “Together is my favorite place.”
  • “Forever starts today.”
  • “Love lives here.”
  • “You. Me. Always.”
  • “All of me loves all of you.”
  • “Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”Percy Shelley
  • “You are my favorite adventure.”
  • “Home is wherever I’m with you.”
  • “My heart is and always will be yours.”Jane Austen
  • “Love you to the moon & back.”
  • “You had me at hello.”
  • “Yes, even on bad hair days.”
  • “Still crushing on you.”
  • “Every day is our day.”
  • “Us > Everything.”

Bonus SEO Quotes

Extra sparkle—famous voices with link authority.

  • “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
  • “Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln
  • “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Harry Potter
  • “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
  • “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E. E. Cummings
  • “You miss 100 % of the shots you don’t take.”Wayne Gretzky
  • “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”Albert Einstein
  • “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”Walt Disney
  • “We accept the love we think we deserve.”Stephen Chbosky
  • “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”Steve Jobs
  • “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul.”Nicholas Sparks
  • “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.”Loretta Young
  • “To love another person is to see the face of God.”Victor Hugo
  • “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”Rumi
  • “To love at all is to be vulnerable.”C. S. Lewis
  • “True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”Audrey Hepburn
  • “Keep love in your heart—a life without it is a sunless garden.”Oscar Wilde
  • “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”Dr. Seuss
  • “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”Moulin Rouge!
  • “Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.”Unknown
  • “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.”Unknown
  • “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • “Being deeply loved gives you strength; loving deeply gives you courage.”Lao Tzu

How to Use These Quotes

• Add one inside a custom blanket
• Print on a throw pillow
• Use for vows, speeches, or Instagram captions
• Tag #LineAndStitch so we can share the love!

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