Whether you are in love or falling in love, there’s just something about love that makes us all want to turn to the sages for some quotes about love to explain our condition.
Here are some of the quirkiest quotes about love we could find from the lovers, the poets, the philosophers, the literary geniuses, and even the scientists among us. Instead of chocolates, give your special Valentine the words of love.
20 Offbeat Quotes About Love
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. – Albert Einstein
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. – Audrey Hepburn
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. – Charles M. Schulz
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – Erich Fromm
Love is space and time measured by the heart. – Marcel Proust
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
“Pooh!” he whispered.
“Yes, Piglet?”
“Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw.
“I just wanted to be sure of you.” – A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. – Maya Angelou
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. – Ken Kesey
The course of true love never did run smooth. – William Shakespeare
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. – Zelda Fitzgerald
Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. – Oscar Wilde
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. – Zora Neale Hurston
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost
Who loves, raves. – Lord Byron
My dear, find what you love and let it kill you. – Charles Bukowski
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. – Tom Robbins
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