159 True Lovers Quotes

Following is our list of true lovers quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about what is true love in a relationship.

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Famous True Lovers Quotes

The star-crossed lovers - Suzanne Collins

The star-crossed lovers — Suzanne Collins

A pair of star-crossed lovers. — William Shakespeare

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. — Rumi

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. — Honore de Balzac

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure. — Honore de Balzac

Those who love each other shall become invincible. — Walt Whitman

True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach

Though lovers be lost love shall not. — Dylan Thomas

True love is born from understanding. — Buddha

Every lover is a soldier. — Ovid

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves — Ralph Washington Sockman

True love never dies; it only gets stronger with time. — Edward Barber

We that are true lovers run into strange capers. - William Shakespeare

We that are true lovers run into strange capers. — William Shakespeare

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. — Walter Raleigh

Short True Lovers Quotes

  • True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another. — Owen Wilson
  • To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Lovers remember everything. [Lat., Meminerunt omnia amantes.] — Ovid
  • For those who love... time is eternity. — Henry Van Dyke
  • Whoever lives true life, will love true love. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Love insists the loved loves back — Dante Alighieri
  • Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match. — Erich Fromm
  • Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel. — Neil Gaiman

True Lovers Image Quotes

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead. - Marilyn Monroe quote

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead. — Marilyn Monroe

True lovers quote The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, he
The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lover of all kinds.

True Quotes

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. — Socrates

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. — Friedrich Nietzsche

True lovers quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

A memory lasts forever. Never does it die. True friends stay together. And never say goodbye. — Anonymous

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself. — Maya Angelou

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. — Haile Selassie

True lovers quote A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compas
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.

A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. — Jonathan Edwards

If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep. - Yiddish Proverbs

If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep. — Yiddish Proverbs

Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion. — T. D. Jakes

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

True Love Quotes

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. — Ellen G. White

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. - Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa

True lovers quote You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. Tru
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. - Che Guevara

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. — Che Guevara

True lovers quote Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.

You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. — Bob Marley

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

Great True Love Quotes

There is no difficulty that enough LOVE will not conquer, no disease that enough LOVE will not heal, no door that enough LOVE will not open, no gulf that enough LOVE will not bridge, no wall that enough LOVE will not throw down, no sin that enough LOVE will not redeem. — Emmet Fox

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. — Douglas Pagels

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. — Che Guevara

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. - Big Pun

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. — Big Pun

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. — Charles Simmons

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer. — Emmet Fox

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are. - Martin Heidegger

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are. — Martin Heidegger

Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match. — Lysa TerKeurst

True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. That is Christ's great atoning example for us, and it ought to be more evident in the kindness we show, the respect we give, and the selflessness and courtesy we employ in our personal relationships. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are. — Carl Schmitt

Two Lovers Quotes

My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language." — Morey Amsterdam

Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love. — Mechthild of Magdeburg

It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss. — African Proverbs

True lovers quote Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you. — Liz Phair

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. — Jean De La Bruyere

True lovers quote Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people
Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. — Fulton J. Sheen

If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach. — Richard Brautigan

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters. — Woody Allen

There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass. — Dan Devine

What Is True Love Quotes

I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. — Shana Abe

If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end. — Michel Foucault

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way......What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything....Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything. — Pedro Arrupe

True lovers quote True love has a habit of coming back.
True love has a habit of coming back.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. — Nicholas Sparks

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. — Jim Morrison

True lovers quote Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with condit
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. — W. T. Purkiser

Love is what we are; we don't get it from somebody, we can't give it to anybody, we can't fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being. — Krishna Das

What is done in love is done well. — Vincent Van Gogh

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

True Love Is Forever Quotes

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts

My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite. — William Shakespeare

True lovers quote True friendship isn't about being inseparable, it's being separated
True friendship isn't about being inseparable, it's being separated

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. — Francois Mauriac

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. — Rumi

If I know what love is, it is because of you. — Hermann Hesse

True lovers quote A friend is not a true friend unless he protects his friend in his misfortune, in his absence, and a
A friend is not a true friend unless he protects his friend in his misfortune, in his absence, and at his death.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. — Stendhal

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. — Janos Arany

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. — Helen Hayes

True Love Never Ends Quotes

You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. — Jessica Jung

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. — Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you. — Alan Zweibel

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you. — Barbara Johnson

We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. — Robert Breault

So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life. — John Milton

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. — Theodor Reik

Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true. — Amit Abraham

True Meaning Of Love Quotes

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. — Elif Safak

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. — Thomas Merton

The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God. — Martin Buber

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. — Leo Buscaglia

Love isn't love until you give it away. - Michael W. Smith

Love isn't love until you give it away. — Michael W. Smith

True love, in the evolutionary sense, means peace of mind. ‘Still waters run deep’ is a good way of characterizing it. — Amir Levine

The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes of my heart, which, I trust, will be gratified by the help of the Grand Architect of the Universe. — William Howard Taft

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. — Charles Dickens

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. — Tom Flynn

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time. — Paulo Coelho

My True Love Quotes

You are my sunrise. Your smile lights up my world. I could give anything just to see you happy. True love is not in getting things from others but in giving and sharing more and more. — William Bernhardt

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. — Diane von Furstenberg

The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love. — Kevin Gates

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. - Mencius

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. — Mencius

Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. — Sayings

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love! — Mikhail Bulgakov

One thing people often want me to talk about is my public love life. When it comes to my love life, the perception seems as though I am a player. But that’s not true. Love is something I am still learning. It’s just an obstacle that I haven’t yet mastered. I think that’s my biggest hurdle in life. — Chris Brown

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. - Byron Katie

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. — Byron Katie

Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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More True Lovers Quotes

No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. — Frederick Douglass

You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for Him: in the heart of a true lover. — Shams Tabrizi

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier

Love, when it is pure, has a revitalizing effect upon others, and in the presence of a truly loving person others grow and expand into a healthier state of being. Without deep reverence for the beloved, such a refreshing stream cannot flow from the heart of the lover. — Vatsyayana

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things. — Plato

Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without. — Raphael Montanez Ortiz

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. — Doris Day

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. — William Shakespeare

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life. — Leo Buscaglia

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person. — Albert Camus

True love in Mexico isn't between lovers; it's between a parent and a child. Mexico is a very intense culture of sons adoring their mothers, and this is why I claim that Mexican culture is matriarchal. Because the one constant, faithful, inviolable, holy love of loves - the love of your life - is not your wife or your lover; it's your mother. — Sandra Cisneros

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world. — Ruth Rendell

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. — Celia Thaxter

The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there. And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner. — Byron Katie

With faces like dead lovers who died true. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I have no dog, but it must be Somewhere there's one belongs to me-- A little chap with wagging tail, And dark brown eyes that never quail, But look you through, and through, and through, With love unspeakable and true. — John Kendrick Bangs

Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. — Oscar Wilde

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar! — Lord Byron

True liars never love. True lovers never lie. — Jeffree Star

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem? — Oscar Hammerstein II

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life — James A. Baldwin

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together. — Nicholas Sparks

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness." — Sylvester Stallone

A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart! No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!! — Rumi

Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness in this vale of tears, to a certain amount of the purest joy that earth can giver her children, joy that is tranquil, innocent, uplifting, unfailing. — Celia Thaxter

You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. — Steve Jobs

Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and nightmares - Listening for a knock, Waiting for a sign: For a touch of her fingers In a darkened room, For a searching look. Take courage, lover! Could you endure such pain At any hand but hers? — Robert Graves

I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me now that I can scarcely tell true from false: dreams like light imprisoned in bright mineral caves; hot, heavy dreams; ice-age dreams; dreams like machines in the head. — Anna Kavan

People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life. — Bette Davis

Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors. — Rumi

And as he held his first true lover against him, feeling that familiar difference in their heights and smelling that wonderful cologne, part of him wanted to debate this break up until they both gave in and kept trying. But that wasn’t fair. — J.R. Ward

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes. — George Orwell

Forever is not a word...rather a place where two lovers go when true love takes them there. — Stephanie

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved. — Rabindranath Tagore

If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else Save in the constant image of the creature That is beloved. — William Shakespeare

A true chocolate lover finds ways to accommodate his passion and make it work with his lifestyle. One key, not just to keeping weight down and staying guilt-free, but also to keeping taste buds sharp (essential for the professionals who evaluate new products as well as judge recipes), Is being discriminating. — Julie Davis

All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond? — Ursula K. Le Guin

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over. — Eugene Field

Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be. — Walter Scott

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