Free Love Quotes: Love Sayings and Quotes

Use love sayings and quotes to help you create personalized valentine, anniversary or romantic cards for any occasion. Love is the most elusive, the most common, the most examined and the most misunderstood of all the emotions. Love is bliss; love is torture. But above all, love inspires great men and women to new heights and greater creative achievements.

Use these free love quotes to rekindle a suffering romance with a letter a day campaign, allowing the quotes to inspire your own declarations of love. Ignite a new romance with thoughtful introspection and new found understanding of love, or simply enjoy the romantic notions found in simple, inspirational and imaginative love quotes.

Romantic free love quotes dress up a personalized Valentine's Day card, sentimentalize an anniversary card and add an emotional punch to any standard greeting card. Allow these love quotes to help you relive that feeling of love at first sight and inspire you to reflect and remember the special person in your own life.

• Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, /'Tis woman's whole existence. ~Byron, Don Juan,
• With all thy faults, I love thee still. ~Cowper, The Task, II
• Who ever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight! ~Marlowe, Hero and Leander,I
• Two souls with but a single thought, / Two hearts that beat as one.~Von Munch-Bellinghausen, Ingomar the Barbarian
• But love is blind, and lovers cannot see...~Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, II, 6
• Doubt thou the stars are fire; / Doubt that the sun doth move; / Doubt truth to be a liar; /But never doubt I love. ~Shakespeare, Hamlet, II, 2
• Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. ~Marcus Aurelius
• When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master. ~Robert Bridges
• It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing. ~Helen Rowland
• You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ~Anon
• In her first passion woman loves her lover; / In all the others, all she loves is love. ~Byron, Don Juan, III

Funny free love quotes for the comedian in your life. Love makes us do ridiculous, impulsive acts. If you are not a fool, you are not in love, so learn to laugh at the absurd and to appreciate the laughter. Relationships easily get bogged down with responsibilities and assumed duties. Release the baggage with laughter to preserve the love. Love and lust are twin emotions, so enjoy them while they last. 

• Ah! a Man's love is strong / When fain he comes a-mating. / But a woman's love is long / And grows when it is waiting. ~Laurence Housman, The Two Loves
• In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. ~Jane Austen
• Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ~Joan Crawford
• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Robert Frost
• Love is staying up all night with a sick child -- or a healthy adult. ~Sir David Paradine Frost
• Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. ~Baltasar Gracian
• Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high. ~Adrienne Gusoff
• Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. ~Iris Murdoch
• Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~Franklin P. Jones
• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ~S.J. Perelman
• Love is a serious mental disease. ~Plato
• Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. ~Jules Renard

Most of the greatest achievements of the human race have been inspired by the pursuit of unrequited love or the heartbreak of a lost love. Troubled relationships can heal if mended properly and broken hearts arouse great things. Whatever happens, you will be a better person when it passes.

• I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and I am in torment. ~Catullus, Odes, LXXXV
• The night has a thousand eyes, / And the day but one; / Yet the light of the bright world dies / With the dying sun. / The mind has a thousand eyes, / And the heart but one; / Yet the light of the whole life dies / When love is done. ~F. W. Bourdillon, Light
• I hold it true, whate'er befall; / I feel it, when I sorrow most; / 'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.~Tennyson, In Memoriam, XXVII
• Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ~Leo Buscaglia
• It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. ~Emmet Fox

Inspirational love quotes are about the raw emotion of true love. Be inspired to throw yourself fully into the emotion, or just appreciate the glowing beauty of a person in love.

• Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything. ~Anon
• Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ~Ray Stannard
• Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. ~Pierre De Beaumarchais
• I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. ~Henry Ward Beecher
• We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... ~Bible, 1 John 3:14
• For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ~Bible, Matthew 6:21
• A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ~Ambrose Bierce
• Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. ~Bulwer-Lytton, Rienzi
• Perhaps they were right in putting love into books,... / Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. ~William Faulkner, Light in August
• It was many and many a year ago, / In a Kingdom by the sea, / That a maiden there lived whom you may know / By the name of Annabel Lee; / And this maiden she lived with no other thought / Than to love and be loved by me. ~Poe, Annabel Lee