April 21, 2025
1. Sappho (c. 600 BC)
“Love shook my heart like a mountain wind falling on oaks.”
2. Plato (4th Century BC)
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
3. Aristotle (4th Century BC)
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
4. Virgil (1st Century BC)
“Love conquers all; let us yield to love.”
5. Ovid (1st Century BC)
“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”
6. Seneca (1st Century AD)
“If you wish to be loved, love.”
7. Plutarch (1st–2nd Century AD)
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
8. Lucius Apuleius (2nd Century AD)
“Love cannot be forced.”
9. St. Augustine (4th–5th Century AD)
“Love, and do what you will.”
10. Rumi (13th Century)
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
11. Ibn Arabi (13th Century)
“My heart has become capable of every form.”
12. Dante Alighieri (13th–14th Century)
“Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart.”
13. Petrarch (14th Century)
“Love is the crowning grace of humanity.”
14. Geoffrey Chaucer (14th Century)
“Love is blind.”
15. Christine de Pizan (15th Century)
“I love so strongly that no sorrow can destroy it.”
16. William Shakespeare (16th–17th Century)
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
17. John Donne (17th Century)
“Love’s mysteries in souls do grow.”
18. Robert Herrick (17th Century)
“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.”
19. Andrew Marvell (17th Century)
“Though we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run.”
20. Molière (17th Century)
“Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.”
21. Blaise Pascal (17th Century)
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
22. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (18th Century)
“To love is to be made of the same stuff as the beloved.”
23. Voltaire (18th Century)
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
24. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (18th–19th Century)
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
25. William Blake (18th–19th Century)
“And we are put on earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love.”
26. Jane Austen (18th–19th Century)
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
27. Lord Byron (19th Century)
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
28. Percy Bysshe Shelley (19th Century)
“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”
29. John Keats (19th Century)
“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake.”
30. Victor Hugo (19th Century)
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
31. Ralph Waldo Emerson (19th Century)
“Love, and you shall be loved.”
32. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (19th Century)
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
33. Edgar Allan Poe (19th Century)
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
34. Emily Brontë (19th Century)
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
35. Charlotte Brontë (19th Century)
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own.”
36. Charles Dickens (19th Century)
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
37. Walt Whitman (19th Century)
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
38. Robert Browning (19th Century)
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”
39. Henry David Thoreau (19th Century)
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
40. Leo Tolstoy (19th–20th Century)
“If you love me as I love you, nothing but death can part us two.”
41. Oscar Wilde (19th Century)
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
42. Mark Twain (19th–20th Century)
“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths.”
43. Rabindranath Tagore (19th–20th Century)
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
44. Khalil Gibran (19th–20th Century)
“Love knows not its depth until the hour of separation.”
45. Rainer Maria Rilke (19th–20th Century)
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.”
46. D.H. Lawrence (20th Century)
“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly.”
47. E.M. Forster (20th Century)
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
48. James Joyce (20th Century)
“Love loves to love love.”
49. Virginia Woolf (20th Century)
“Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.”
50. F. Scott Fitzgerald (20th Century)
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
51. Ernest Hemingway (20th Century)
“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
52. E.E. Cummings (20th Century)
“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born.”
53. Ayn Rand (20th Century)
“To say ‘I love you,’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’”
54. William Faulkner (20th Century)
“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”
55. C.S. Lewis (20th Century)
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
56. George Bernard Shaw (19th–20th Century)
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”
57. Bertrand Russell (20th Century)
“To fear love is to fear life.”
58. W.B. Yeats (19th–20th Century)
“Hearts are not had as a gift, but hearts are earned.”
59. Pablo Neruda (20th Century)
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.”
60. Frida Kahlo (20th Century)
“I love you more than my own skin.”
61. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (20th Century)
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together.”
62. Albert Camus (20th Century)
“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
63. Maya Angelou (20th–21st Century)
“Love recognizes no barriers.”
64. John Lennon (20th Century)
“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.”
65. Bob Marley (20th Century)
“One love, one heart.”
66. Martin Luther King Jr. (20th Century)
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
67. Audrey Hepburn (20th Century)
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
68. Princess Diana (20th Century)
“Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward.”
69. Dolly Parton (20th–21st Century)
“Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.”
70. Helen Keller (20th Century)
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.”
71. Lucille Ball (20th Century)
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”
72. Marilyn Monroe (20th Century)
“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil.”
73. Judy Garland (20th Century)
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart.”
74. Bob Dylan (20th–21st Century)
“I gave her my heart, but she wanted my soul.”
75. Stevie Wonder (20th–21st Century)
“You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.”
76. Elton John (20th–21st Century)
“Live for each second without hesitation.”
77. Billy Joel (20th–21st Century)
“I love you just the way you are.”
78. Paul McCartney (20th–21st Century)
“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
79. Oprah Winfrey (20th–21st Century)
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”
80. J.K. Rowling (21st Century)
“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
81. Nicholas Sparks (21st Century)
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
82. John Green (21st Century)
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
83. Stephen Chbosky (21st Century)
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
84. Taylor Swift (21st Century)
“You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.”
85. Ariana Grande (21st Century)
“Be happy with the beautiful things that make you you.”
86. Selena Gomez (21st Century)
“If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it’s yours forever.”
87. Ed Sheeran (21st Century)
“All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.”
88. Adele (21st Century)
“Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.”
89. Beyoncé (21st Century)
“If there’s any secret to love, it’s about giving.”
90. Shawn Mendes (21st Century)
“I know I can treat you better.”
91. Camila Cabello (21st Century)
“Love is the most powerful thing in the world.”
92. Meghan Markle (21st Century)
“With strength and love, anything is possible.”
93. Prince Harry (21st Century)
“I’ve found the love of my life, and I know we’ll be together forever.”
94. Michelle Obama (21st Century)
“Choosing to love is never a risk.”
95. Barack Obama (21st Century)
“Love and hope can conquer hate.”
96. Malala Yousafzai (21st Century)
“I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through love.”
97. Moulin Rouge! (2001 Film)
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
98. “Love Actually” (2003 Film)
“To me, you are perfect.”
99. “The Notebook” (Film/Novel)
“You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had.”
100. Anonymous (21st Century)
“I love you more today than I did yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow.”
