Sayings and Reflections on Love

Sayings and Reflections on Love

Love is among the noblest human feelings, through which people express affection and passion for one another. Writers and lovers have long spoken about its sweetness and bitterness. This article gathers sayings and reflections about love.

Sayings about Love

  • Work as though you do not need money. Love as though no one has ever hurt you. Dance as though no one is watching. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though paradise is beneath your feet.
  • The comfort of feeling safe with someone cannot be precisely described, measured in thoughts, or expressed in words. It is an outpouring from the soul, flowing through thoughts and words.
  • Love your brother with your heart and forgive him even while he stabs you; perhaps, as you fall bleeding, you will need to place your hand on his shoulder.
  • The easiest and most fruitful lie is to make someone who lies to you believe that you believe them.
  • Medicine can treat physical illness, but only love can treat loneliness and despair.
  • Many people in the world die because they have no bread, but many also die thirsting for a little love.
  • With every second, a new life begins. Let us go joyfully to meet it: looking ahead is always better than looking back.
  • Speak softly when you speak of love. —William Shakespeare
  • Love is a bearable hell; life without love is an unbearable paradise. —Kamel El-Shennawi
  • Friendship may grow into love, but love does not retreat into friendship. —Byron
  • Love is a living experience known only to those who live it. —Simone de
  • Love is sovereign, and therefore above the law.
  • Love is like war: easy to start and difficult to extinguish.
  • Love is the only game in which two people take part and both win or both lose.
  • Love is part of a man’s existence, but the whole of a woman’s. —Byron
  • A man loves to enjoy life; a woman lives to enjoy love. —Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Love may be born from a word, but it can never die from a word.
  • Love does not kill lovers; it merely leaves them suspended between life and death.
  • A person in love believes everything or believes nothing.
  • The young wish for love, then money, then health. A day will come when they wish for health, then money, then love. —Giraldi
  • The tragedy of love is that a man wants to be the first to enter a woman’s heart, while a woman wants to be the last to enter a man’s. —Byron
  • O heart, a love that does not make you forget the beloved’s beauty is a weak love. —Mahmoud Abbas Al-Aqqad