The Most Beautiful Love Quotes of All Time

What makes a beautiful love quote? Is it the way it makes you feel? Is it the poetry? Is it the depth behing the words that makes you think of someone precious in your life? Is it the images it brings to mind? Is it the person who said it? Here I will share with you what I believe to be the most beautiful love quotes of all time. Of course there are likely to be many more, however these are my particular favourites.

"Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate… When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." - William Shakespeare

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

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life, that word is Love." - Socrates

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well." - Vincent Van Gogh

"If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever." - Winnie The Pooh (A.A. Milne)

"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others." - Francois Mauriac

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." - Saint Augustine

"Love is always bestowed as a gift — freely, willingly, and without expectation … We don’t love to be loved; we love to love." - Leo Buscaglia

"Intense love does not measure, it just gives." - Mother Teresa

"It was not into my ear you whispered, but my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." - Judy Garland

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." - Charles Dickens

"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart." - Henry Ward Beecher

"There is no remedy for love but to love more." - Henry David Thoreau

"In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged." - Hans Nouwens

"Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love." - Erich Fromm

“Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.” - Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return." - Nat King Cole

"True love is like a butterfly. Once it is gone it has flown away and it is nearly impossible to recapture it." - Anonymous

"Love is the only gold" - Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle

"I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." - Roy Croft

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr Seuss

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo

"Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart." - Alphonse Marie De Lamartine

What is your most beautiful love quote of all time and why?