Love Story is a 1970 romance novel by American writer Erich Segal. The book’s origins lay in a screenplay that Segal wrote, and that was subsequently approved for production by Paramount Pictures. Paramount requested that Segal adapt the story into novel form as a preview of sorts for the film. Profoundly inspirational Love Story quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
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Famous Love Story Quotes
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. John Green
I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more. Angelita Lim
Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will. Elaine Davis
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss
I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more. Angelita Lim
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn
The real lover is a man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. Marilyn Monroe
I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had. The Notebook
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. Maya Angelou
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever. Alfred Tennyson
I’ll be loving you, always with a love that’s true. Patsy Cline
Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you. Elvis Presley
I need you like a heart needs a beat. One Republic
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
If I know what love is, it is because of you. Hermann Hesse
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I will never stop trying. Because when you find the one you never give up. Crazy
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. Leo Christopher
It’s always better when we’re together. Jack Johnson
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
I wasn’t expecting you. I didn’t think that we would end up together. The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you. I’ve never been seen so completely, loved so passionately and protected so fiercely. This Is Us
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. Brendan Francis
I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you. Zelda Fitzgerald
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. Pablo Neruda
I love you and that’s the beginning and end of everything. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. Oscar Wilde
If I know what love is, it is because of you. Hermann Hesse
You make me want to be a better man. Melvin Udall
My soul and your soul are forever tangled. N.R. Hart
Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you. Elvis Presley
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you. Ben Folds
Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be. Robert Browning
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. Maya Angelou
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment. Sarah Dessen
If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets. Haruki Murakami
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein
He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Bronte
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anais Nin
You are, and always have been, my dream. Nicholas Sparks
He is not a lover who does not love forever. Euripides
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
To love is to burn, to be on fire. Jane Austen
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. Princess Diana
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin
Our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it. A Walk to Remember
In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing. Jack Kornfield
Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity. Truth Devour
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. Bette Davis
It’s always better when we’re together. Jack Johnson
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. C.S. Lewis
I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone. J.K.K. Tolken
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. Paulo Coelho
My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever expanding. Christina White
Love is so short, forgetting is so long. Pablo Neruda
When I see your face, there’s not a thing that I would change, cause you’re amazing just the way you are. Bruno Mars
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears. Ovid
Because of you, I can feel myself slowly, but surely, becoming the me I have always dreamed of being. Tyler Knott Gregson
Love is not love until love’s vulnerable. Theodore Roethke
We loved with a love that was more than love. Edgar Allen Poe
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss
True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning. Nicholas Sparks
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. Pablo Neruda
I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more. Angelita Lim
Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it. Nicholas Sparks
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. Vladimir Nabokov
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. Ben Hecht
In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person. Margaret Anderson
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever. Noah from The Notebook
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint Exupery
I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone. J.R.R. Tolkien
You’re always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I’m thinking of you. Dierks Bentley
To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed. Valerie Lombardo
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. Arrigo Boito
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. André Breton
If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you. DeAnna Anderson
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut
All that you are is all that I’ll ever need. Ed Sheeran
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Elinor Glyn
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. Marilyn Monroe
Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery
Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person. James Thurber
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Elinor Glyn
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. Sophocles
To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed. Valerie Lombardo
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. William Arthur Ward
When I look into your eyes, I know I have found the mirror of my soul. Joey W. Hill
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. Paulo Coelho
A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight. Edward VIII
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide
Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away. Hitch
This has been my life; I found it worth living. Bertrand Russell
You’re nothing short of my everything. Ralph Block
We must be our own before we can be another’s. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love you begins by I, but it ends up by you. Charles de Leusse
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. Nicholas Sparks
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi
Your hand touching mine. This is how galaxies collide. Sanober Khan
Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you. Tom Freston
The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone. Jane Aust
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
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. Bertrand Russell
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald
Love is a force more formidable than any other. Barbara de Angelis
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. Henry David Thoreau
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world. Judy Collins
I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. The Alchemist
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha
I’ve been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn’t anyone else in my life, and the reason is you. Julie James
Self love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self neglecting. William Shakespeare
There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. Marilyn Monroe
You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. Oscar Wilde
I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear. Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless. Leo Christopher
