If you know me, you likely are aware of one of my strongest guiding principles: I love love.
As far as I’m concerned, love is always in the air. It’s everlasting, poignant, and rooted in our lives far beyond the confines of a commercial holiday, or even a romantic relationship. That’s a big reason why I started this blog in the first place: I wanted a space to write creatively and frankly about the ins and outs of love—how it’s a foundation within my own marriage, throughout all relationships, and how to seek it out in joyful forms across nature and adventure.
To me, love and sunshine are pretty interchangeable.
So, in the name of seeing, naming, identifying, sharing, embracing, and spreading, here are my favorite quotes about love.
20 quotes about love
Here are 20 of my very favorite quotes about love—iconic words that stir my heart and leave me wondering and agreeing and pondering all about what love is and does and means.
Cheers!
“I am grateful that you were born, that your love is mine, and our two lives are woven and welded together.”
— Mark Twain
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
— Henry Miller
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson
“We are most alive when we are in love.”
— John Updike
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“I will be a poet, and you will be poetry.”
— François Coppée
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”
— Max Muller
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
— David Viscott
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost
Established in 2018, Sunshine with Savannah is a catch-all blog with an emphasis on weekend travel, millennial-style marriage and fun, reflection-based musings, outdoor adventure, home design, and all things lifestyle.
Though the content is diverse and varied, the heart of this space stays true to a single, guiding principle: a simple pursuit to find sunshine, wherever I go.
Awakening Wonders says
Love your lovely quotes about LOVE. I just could not pick a favorite!💖