My top 10 Favourite Quotes About Love

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to collect useful wisdom that I could share in short, inspiring phrases. I hope you enjoy these quotes about love.

Under each inspirational quote, you can find the source of the quote. Scroll down to browse them all.

Quotes about love

Here are 6 pieces of writing wisdom from some of the greatest authors and thinkers of all time. I consider these my favourite love quotes:

I.

Writer and activist James Baldwin on what love looks like:

‘The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.’

Source: James Baldwin in Nothing Personal. Also featured in the Tiny Bits Newsletter.

II.

Brandon Bays on loving without strings attached:

‘You have to love with an open hand. The heart is like a bird and you have to let this bird fly freely, you cannot possess it.’

Source: Brandon Bays. Also featured in the Tiny Bits Newsletter.

III.

Frida Kahlo on taking time to understand yourself and your needs before entering a relationship:

‘Fall in love with yourself, with life, and then with whomever you want.’

Source: Frida Kahlo. Also featured in the Tiny Bits Newsletter.

IV.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky puts it even more forcefully:

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Source: Fyodor Dostoyevsky in The Brothers Karamazov. Also featured in the Tiny Bits Newsletter.

V.

Haruki Murakami about the essence of love:

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.

Source: Haruki Murakami in Kafka on the Shore.

VI.

Faraway about the reciprocity of love:

‘I think true love is when two people make each other love themselves more.’

Source: Faraway

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Last note

Thank you for reading! On this list were just a handful of quotes that I’ve also featured in my Tiny Bits newsletter. It was a pleasure to hand-pick these inspirational quotes about love for you. In my newsletter, I share a thoughtful and inspirational quote every month, as I’ve collected many of them along the way. Sign up for this newsletter if you haven’t yet.

Lisanne