29 Stunning Literary Quotes That Will Make You Believe In The Love We All Hope For

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world…”

— Frank O’Hara, amazon.com

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”

— Robert Browning, amazon.com

“If it weren’t for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.”

— Nicole Krause, amazon.com

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Each time, you happen to me all over again.”

— Edith Wharton, amazon.com

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, amazon.com

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”

— Emily Brontà, amazon.com

“If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.”

— Michelle Hodkin, amazon.com

“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”

— Victor Hugo, amazon.com

“I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”

— A.A. Milne, amazon.com

“He was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week and my Sunday rest.”

— W.H. Auden, amazon.com

“Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.”

— E. M. Forster, amazon.com

“And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy.”

— Plato, amazon.com

“I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.”

— E. M. Forster, amazon.com

“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”

— Gabriel Garcà­a Mà¡rquez, amazon.com

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Brontà, amazon.com

“You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.”

— Margaret Mitchell, amazon.com

“You are my sympathy—my better self—my good angel—I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my center and spring of life, wrap my existence about you—and, kindling in pure, powerful…”

— Charlotte Brontà, amazon.com

“When you love something, it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.”

— John Knowles, amazon.com

“Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”

— William Goldman,, amazon.com

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“When I am old and alone, I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.”

— Joe Dunthorne, amazon.com