Love phrases in English: the most beautiful quotes with Italian translation

There are those who seek him all his life, those who passively wait for him, those who are afraid of him and those who, on the other hand, do not believe in it, but no one can be indifferent to love. This multi-faceted feeling is the protagonist of songs, paintings, poems and other works so much it has been able to fascinate and conquer over the years. Precisely for this reason we have collected the most beautiful phrases of love in English - with an Italian translation - which try to explain what this wonderful affection towards one's neighbor is and how it manifests itself.

The aphorisms that explain what love is

Many have tried to define what love really is, giving different versions and explanations. Here are the most beautiful phrases that try to explain what this feeling consists of.

Love is the wisest of madness, able to suppress bitterness, sweetness able to heal.
Love is the wisest of follies, a bitterness capable of suffocating, a sweetness capable of healing.
William Shakespeare

To love is to burn, to be on fire.
To love is to burn, to be on fire.
Jane Austen

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Love is that condition in which another person's happiness is essential to yours.
Robert A. Heinlein

Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel Proust

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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect each other, touch each other, greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
Love is the only thing we can take with us when we leave, and it makes the end so simple.
Louisa May Alcott

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
Love is not just something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
Love is not something natural. It requires discipline, focus, patience, faith and overcoming narcissism. It is not a feeling, it is a practice.
Erich Fromm

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is friendship set on fire.
Love is a fiery friendship.
Jeremy Taylor

The best proof of love is trust.
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers

Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.
Love is like a butterfly, a rare and delicate thing.
Dolly Parton

The best quotes about when you are in love

When you are in love, you experience unique and almost always indescribable emotions. In this section we have collected the most famous phrases about when you really feel this feeling.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
If you love someone, let them go, because if they come back, they have always been yours. And if it doesn't come back, it never has been.
Kahlil Gibran

I know I am in love with you because my reality is finally better than my dreams.
You know you are in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Keep love in your heart. A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving.
There are no formulas or methods: only by loving do we learn to love.
Aldous Huxley

Who so loves believes the impossible.
Those who love believe in the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine. That all the world will be in love with night.
When he dies, take him and cut him into little stars, and he will make the face of the sky so beautiful that everyone will fall in love with the night.
William Shakespeare

I have always loved everything about you. Even what I didn’t understand.
I've always loved everything about you. Even what I never understood.
Albert Camus

To love is to be vulnerable.
To love is to be vulnerable.
C. S. Lewis

The most beautiful phrases about true love

Many have focused on true love, trying to define what it is and how it can be recognized. Here are the best aphorisms of the great authors on this subject.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
He doubts the stars are fire, he doubts the sun moves, he doubts the truth is a liar, but never doubt my love.
William Shakespeare

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
Love has no age, no limits; and does not die.
John Galsworthy

Love is sweet when it's new. But it is sweeter when it's true.
Love is sweet when it is new. But it's sweeter when it's true.
Anonymous

Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing.
Love will bear everything; love will go beyond death; love fears nothing.
Maria Faustina Kowalska

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
True love is the man who excites you by kissing your forehead, smiling in your eyes or simply staring into space.
Marylin Monroe

The more one judges, the less one loves.
Many judge, few love.
Honore de Balzac

If thou remember’st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov’d.
If you don't remember that love has ever made you commit the smallest folly, then you have not loved.
William Shakespeare

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton

Author aphorisms to dedicate to the partner

There is nothing more romantic than dedicating a famous phrase to the person you love. Here are the most beautiful quotes with both English and Italian versions, for an unforgettable dedication to your partner!

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
It wasn't in my ear that you whispered, but in my heart. You did not kiss my lips, but my soul.
Judy Garland

I'm much more me when I'm with you.
I feel more like myself when I'm with you.
Anonymous

I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
I love you because the whole universe has conspired to make me reach you.
Paulo Coelho

If I know what love is, it is because of you.
If I know what love is, it is thanks to you.
Herman Hesse

You are like nobody since I love you.
You look like no one since I love you.
Pablo Neruda

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Oh, you are more beautiful than the evening air that dresses the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe

All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.
Everything, everything I know, I know because I love.
Lev Tolstoy

You're something between a dream and a miracle.
You are something between a dream and a miracle.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.
I love you without knowing how, when, or where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.
Pablo Neruda

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you I could walk through my garden forever.
If I had a flower every time I think of you I could walk in my garden forever.
Alfred Tennyson

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. If you love me, I’ll always be in your heart ... If you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind.
Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. If you love me, I will always be in your heart ... if you hate me, I will always be in your mind.
William Shakespeare

For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Because, you see, I love you more every day. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard

I have crossed oceans of time to find you.
I crossed the oceans of time to find you.
Bram Stoker

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known — and even that is an understatement.
You are the most graceful, sweet, tender and beautiful person I have ever met. And all this is not enough to describe you.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.
I love you for all you are, all you have been, all you have yet to be.
Ernest Hemingway

You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
AND AND. Cummings

Funny and ironic phrases about love in English

Finally, there have been authors who have provided an ironic and irreverent version of love. Here are some examples.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
All you need is love. But a little bit of chocolate, every now and then, doesn't hurt.
Charles M. Schulz

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Love is like measles: the later it arrives in life, the more dangerous it is.
Douglas William Jerrold

The only difference between a flirtation and eternal love is that a flirtation lasts longer.
The only difference between a flirt and eternal love is that a flirt lasts longer.
Oscar Wilde

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
There is no more sincere love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw

Love phrases in English