Famous Love Quotes

'I love you' - Probably the most important three words you'll ever utter to your loved one... But 'how' you say it can make that moment even more special.Have you ever been lost for words to express the way you feel about that special someone in your life? 'I love you' just doesn't come near to the way that person makes you feel, does it?

In this section, we've gathered together some of the greatest love quotes, love letters, and poems ever written, as well as some suggestions from fellow Smoochers, to help give you inspiration.

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts" Charles Dickens

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love" Leo Tolstoy

"Wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure" Paul Coelho

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge" Thomas Carlyle

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

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost.That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence" Edmond & Jules de Goncourt

"What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories." George Eliot

"You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength." Henry Brooks Adams

"Love is when you look into someone's eyes and go all the way inside, to their soul and you both know... instantly." Angela Chase

"For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile." David Myers

"True love is like a ghost; everyone talks of it, few have seen it" La Rochefoucauld

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

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." Thomas Fuller

"Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock." Mary Parrish