The Best Classic Love Quotes from Literature
There is something so pure and eternal about love. It grounds us and reminds us to be present in every moment. It encourages and nurtures new life and new experiences. It accompanies your happiest and fullest memories. It can erupt at first glance or develop over time.
Love can be difficult to put into words.
The following love quotes are brought to you by literature pros to help you express your feelings with words. Whether you are writing your vows, a Valentine, anniversary letter, or an everyday love note, these classic love quotes should help inspire you.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan
“I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.”
WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
THE PRINCESS BRIDE by William Goldman
“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love; I have found you.”
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel Garcia MÃrquez
“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”
WINNIE THE POOH by A.A. Milne
“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.”
ADAM BEDE by George Eliot
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you – is not that strange?”
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LES MISERABLES by Victor Hugo
“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
“The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, the inexhaustible is requisite.”
“Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven.”
by Alice Walker
“I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it’s coming with all my heart.”
by Mark Twain
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
by Anais Nin
“You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.”
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