158+ Timeless Quotes About True And Real Love

If you are in love, you already know that it’s hard to put into words, but these true love thoughts and love phrases make saying what you’re really feeling a whole lot easier. These famous true love quotes and sayings can help you describe your emotions in words. These real love quotes are admired and  adored throughout the history, not only because they rhyme but also they exactly express what we know, feel and believe in our hearts and souls.

When you’re in love, you cannot spend even a minute without beloved one. Since you constantly miss and think about him or her; miss you quotes and soulmate quotes means a lot to you. When starting the day, you can send good morning text to let him/her know that s/he is the first thing that you think of when you wake up.

I believe that the real meaning of true love can be different for each person. Essentially, true love means that you have an unbreakable bond, fondness and devotion for your partner without having expectations. I hope these romantic true love quotes help you build deeper connection and make your heart skip a beat.

Inspirational True Love Quotes

“And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God.” – Les Miserables

“True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.” – Sadhu Vaswani

“A true relationship is with someone who accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future.”

“You have replaced my nightmares with dreams, my worries with happiness, and my fears with love.”

“True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.” – Jennifer Aniston

“True love never dies. It lives on in the people who believe in it.”

“I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

”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 endure whatever comes.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

“You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.” – Karen Salmansohn

“Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.” – Nhat Hanh

“True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.” – Ricardo Montalban

“I believe in true love, and I believe in happy endings. And I believe.” – Christie Brinkley

“In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.” – Margaret Anderson

“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” – Honore de Balzac

“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” – François de La Rochefoucauld

most famous quotes on true love

“True love – that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy – is a choice. It’s a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances.” – Mark Manson

“Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.” – Gwendoline Christie

“To good and true love fear is forever affixed.” – Francois Rabelais

“I think when we truly love something, we get the same true love in return.” – Diljit Dosanjh

“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it has merely shown me that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.” – Doug Fetherling

“Before you came into my life, I never knew what true love felt like.”

True Love Quotes You Should Know

“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.” – The Notebook

“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach

“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” – Mandy Hale

“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.” – Torquato Tasso

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin

“I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.”

“True love is knowing a person’s faults, and loving them even more for them.”

“I believe that dreams come true because mine did when I met you. I will always love you.”

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball

“We simply can’t abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.” – Seth Adam Smith

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo

“True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.” – John Green

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy

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“I’m much more me when I’m with you.”

“True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!” – Dada Vaswani

“Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.” – M. Scott Peck

“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” – Blaise Pascal

“It’s a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that’s been important to you. It’s actually not all that pleasurable. I don’t know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can’t bear an hour without somebody’s company.” – Colin Firth

True Love Relationship Quotes

“You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.”

“Let’s, let’s stay together.”

“Affection is when you see someone’s strengths; love is when you accept someone’s flaws.”

“Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.”

“True love is choosing the many things a person did right rather than the one thing he did wrong. True love does not keep the record of wrongs.”

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.” – Shannon L. Alder

“All of me loves all of you.” – John Legend

“Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.” – Carroll Bryant

“Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth.” – Eleanor Di Guillo

“True love is not how you forgive, but how you forget, not what you see but what you feel, not how you listen but how you understand, and not how you let go but how you hold on.”

quotes about true love

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.” – Kiera Cass

“True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.”

“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” – T. Tolis

“A true relationship is two unperfect people refusing to give up on each other.”

“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” – Lao Tzu

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” – Erich Segal

“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

Real Love Quotes

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.” – Oscar Wilde

“True love is not the number of kisses, or how often you get them, true love is the feeling that still lingers long after the kiss is over.”

“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.” – Theodor Reik

“Real love was gritty. The real kind of love never quit. Someone who loved you would do what’s best for you; they’d stand up for you and sacrifice. Someone who loved you would face any inconvenience willingly. You didn’t know what love was until someone was willing to give up what they loved the most for you. But it was also never letting them make that choice, either.” – Mariana Zapata

real love quotes

“They say you only fall in love once, but that can’t be true. Every time I look at you, I fall in love all over again.”

“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

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare

“Real love means remaining truthful, even when you have all the opportunity in the world to hurt someone.” – Michael Hayssus

“And in the middle of my chaos, there was you.”

“The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.” – Woody Allen

“Real love is seeing that the one you love is happy even when you do things for them that makes you unhappy. Because their happiness is paramount.” – Jerry Elijah

“True love lasts forever.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson

“If someone truly loves you, they won’t tell you love stories, they will make a love story with you.”

“Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.” – Anita Brookner

“There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table.'” – Tom Hanks

“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.” – Harry Palmer

“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” – Leo Christopher

“true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.” – Jodi Picoult

quotes on true love

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” –  Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“Always remember true love never fades away even if it is not reciprocated. It remains in the heart to purify and soften the soul.”

“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 the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.” – James O’Barr

“True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.” – Holliday Grainger

“Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.” – Don Miguel Ruiz

“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” – David Wilkerson

“I may not be your first date, kiss or love…but I want to be your last everything.”

“The real love is the one that makes you forget all the others.” – Marty Rubin

“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.” – Billy Graham

“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 withering, of tarnishing.” – Anaïs Nin

quotes about real love

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” – Lord of The Rings

“When you truly love someone, you give everything you can and never expect a return.”

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – When Harry Met Sally

“I don`t need the whole world to love me. I just need one person. You know this person well: it`s you!”

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato

“Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” – Rosemonde Gerard

Best Quotes About True Love

“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.” – William Goldman

“When we`re together, I don`t need other people and things. Everything I need is the time…”

“True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they’ve gotta match.”

“I realized I was thinking of you, and I began to wonder how long you’d been on my mind. Then it occurred to me: Since I met you, you’ve never left.”

“True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.” – Ellen G. White

true love thoughts

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis

“From time to time I dream about not knowing you because I cannot sleep at night, thinking about you!”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao-Tzu

“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” — H. L. Mencken

“When you miss me, look at the sky: we have the common moon and the sun!”

“I love true love, and I’m a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want.” – Ali Larter

“We are shaped and fashioned by those we love.” – Geothe

“You know you truly love somebody when they hurt you so badly, but all you can think about it is the times when they made you smile.”

“When your love is true, you see all your partner`s faults, but still, love them. I don`t mean you have faults, I mean I love you despite them!”

“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.” – Cassandra Clare

“True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“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

“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.” – Henry Wadsworth

“Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.” – Tori Spelling

Cute True Love Quotes

“True love is not easy. It arises only after shared ups and downs, common sufferings and the fun you have together.”

“True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.” – Julia Roberts

“True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.” – Justin Timberlake

“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” – Julia Roberts

“Love cannot be in doubt. When you find true love, you know it for sure. If you are not certain, it`s not real love.”

“It may be an old cliché, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.” – Bruce Forsyth

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return.” – “Unforgettable with Love” by Natalie Cole

“It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they’re destined to be.” – Michelle Yeoh

true love quotes and sayings

“When the time passes, true love becomes stronger, but false love breaks down.”

“I hope you know that every time I tell you to get home safe, stay warm, have a good day, or sleep well what I am really saying is I love you. I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words’ meanings. “

“True love isn’t without problem, it has many obstacles, true love is working through all of them and coming out happy with that someone on the other side.”

“I love you not because you`re the best. It’s because you make me better.”

“Life is a game and true love is a trophy.” – Rufus Wainwright

“Maybe true love isn’t out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.” – Roxane Gay

“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love… I love… I love you.” – Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.” – Paul McCartney

“None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can’t teach people that – they have to learn by experience.” – Dorothy L. Sayers

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“I`m not waiting that you`ll make me happy. I`m sure you`ll be happy with me.”

“Tell him I’m going to the back seat of my car with the woman I love, and I won’t be back for 10 minutes!” – Homer Simpson

“Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.” – Tom Freston

“True love can not be found where it does not truly exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.”

“The purpose of the life is to find true love, not meaning. It`s easier to find the meaning of life together, not alone.”

“It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.” – LaToya Jackson

“Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.” – Wislawa Szymborska

Heart Touching True Love Quotes

“The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else’s flaws, so of course you’re gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, ‘If you loved me, you wouldn’t criticise me.’ Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.” – Alain de Botton

“True love is not about the hugs and kisses, the ‘I love you’s’ or the ‘I miss you’s’, but about the chills that hit every part of your spine when you think about him.”

“True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.” – Monica Johnson

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de La Fontaine

“You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.” – Courtney Thorne-Smith

“I do believe in one true love.” – Michelle Dockery

“True love that lasts forever… yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.” – Zooey Deschanel

“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved.” – C. JoyBell C.

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

“True love never dies even after your death; It will exist in the air.”

“True love is like an air. We can’t see it, but we can feel it.”

“When I look into your eyes, I know I have found the mirror of my soul.”

“I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.” – Pablo Neruda

“In love there are two things: bodies and words.” – Joyce Carol Oates

“You may hold my hand for a while, but you hold my heart forever.”

“True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.” – Emily Giffin

“True love does not stifle you, it’s not a cage hiding you from the world. True love is a platform, it’s the wings that you need to fly, the fuel for your dreams.”

“True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

Some Fact About True Love

What real love means according to famous quotes?

“Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.” – Nhat Hanh

What true love really means?

True love means trust, acceptance, and support. It’s an ever-growing process

What is true love in a relationship?

True love in a relationship includes respect, admiration, care and both of you feel connected, attached, and happy.

What are signs of being in love?

You keep thinking about her/him and you can’t manage to get them out of your head.
You wanna try to help her/him or you wanna try something new together
You find yourself as planning a future with her/him .

Is it healthy to be in love?

Of course. When you are together with someone you basically feel less stress in your life. You plan your future together and you can enjoy a more satisfying life.

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