Love Quotes

The love quotes here come largely from poets who wrote about love as something larger than romance. Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet (1923) supplies several, including his advice to couples to “let there be spaces in your togetherness” and his observation that love “knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, wrote of love as a search that begins by removing our own defences.

Others look at love from unexpected angles. Oscar Wilde called loving oneself “the beginning of a lifelong romance.” Toni Morrison, in Beloved, insisted that “thin love ain’t love at all.” Aristotle, as Diogenes Laertius reports, described a true friend as “a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” These are words for weddings and anniversaries, and for the harder moments too.