18 Timeless Love Quotes That'll Never Grow Old

“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to end…”

— 2 Corinthians 13:4, amazon.com

“Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“If there’s love, dear… those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever. All my love to you, poppet. You’re going to be all right. Bye bye.”

— Robin Williams, amazon.com

“So if I asked you about art you could give me the skinny on every art book ever written... Michelangelo? You know a lot about him I bet. Life's work, criticisms, political aspirations. But you couldn't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never stood there and looked up at that…”

— Robin Williams, amazon.com

“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.”

— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com

“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”

— William Faulkner, amazon.com

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

“Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.”

— William Shakespeare, Romeo, Juliet, amazon.com

“To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

— Mark Twain, barnesandnoble.com

“Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.”

— Ray Bradbury, barnesandnoble.com

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.”

— E. E Cummings, amazon.com

“Love loves to love love.”

— James Joyce, barnesandnoble.com

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

— Robert Frost, amazon.com

“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty…you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”

— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com

“True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring—once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome…except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen a…”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”

— Alice Walker, amazon.com

“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”

— Roald Dahl, amazon.com