Quotes about true love: the most beautiful quotes about truly loving

What is love? A strong feeling of affection and goodness that one feels towards another person.But when can we talk about true love? Is it a matter of time, of the intensity of the bond between the two lovers or dictated even a little by destiny that allows us to find our soul mate? Even today it is difficult to put into words and give a definition of this pure, disinterested feeling that seems so difficult to find. The great authors have tried to explain it in their texts and in their poems, so we have selected the most beautiful phrases about true love.

Before discovering all the aphorisms and quotes on this issue, do you know the signs to understand if you are truly in love? Here they are summarized in this short video!

Aphorisms about true love and its characteristics

In this first section, we let ourselves be guided by the words of the most illustrious authors who show us what true love means to them.

True love must always hurt. It must be painful to love someone, painful to leave someone behind. Only then does one love sincerely.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

True love is neither physical nor romantic. True love is the acceptance of all that is, has been, will be and will not be.
Khalil Gibran

If you expect some form of reward, it is not love: true love is to love without conditions and without expectations.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

True love being infinite and eternal, it can only be consumed in eternity.
Aldous Huxley

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True love makes the thought of death familiar, easy, without terror: a simple term of comparison, the price one would pay for so many things.
Stendhal

But love, true love, whole love, wants one thing and the other; he wants the perfect fusion of sensuality and tenderness: this is also why it is rare.
Umberto Saba

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life alone. We find it together with someone else.
Thomas Merton

True love despairs or goes into ecstasy over a lost glove or a found handkerchief, and needs eternity for its devotion and hopes. It is made up of both the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
Victor Hugo

True love is like a lighted window on a dark night. True love is a lit stillness.
Giuseppe Ungaretti

Love is the poetry of the senses. Either it is sublime or it doesn't exist. When it exists, it exists forever and grows day by day.
Honore de Balzac

Love is always new. It does not matter that we love once, twice, ten times in life: we are always faced with a situation that we do not know.
Paulo Coelho

Love is the origin, cause and purpose of all that is great, noble and beautiful.
Alphonse Karr

There are many women who live in the memory of a fantastic love and true love is for them a great and elusive mystery like that of divinity.
Grace Deledda

There are loves that will never disappoint you, because they didn't promise you anything, but they will give you everything.
Augustin Degas

The best quotes on when you truly love

What does it feel like when you're really in love? And above all, how does this strong feeling manifest itself? Here are the most beautiful phrases on this topic.

True love is manifested in small gestures, in attentive gazes, in unexpected caresses, in the silent presence that says more than a thousand words.
Stephen Littleword

This is what true love is about: letting a person be who they really are. Most people love you for who they claim you are.
Jim Morrison

When you love someone, you always think: one of us will have to die before the other and they will be alone. If you don't think so, you don't really love.
Erich Maria Remarque

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

Love is the confidence to tell him everything about yourself, including things that could make us ashamed. Love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but even more is feeling your legs give way when that someone walks into a room and smiles at you.
Albert Einstein

Love is the most beautiful of oxymorons. You love to death only those who make you feel alive.
Anonymous

Oh love, it is being two and being only one person. A man and a woman who merge into an angel. It is the sky.
Victor Hugo

All love is made up of hidden sacrifices, gestures that the other does not immediately know, and that sometimes he will never know directly.
Jonah Lynch

The most beautiful short phrases about true love

Sometimes it doesn't take many words to describe true love. Here are the best short author quotes on this topic.

True love is recognized not by what it asks for, but by what it offers.
Jacinto Benavente

Life is a sleep, love is its dream, and you will have lived if you have loved.
Alfred de Musset

True love consists in accepting others as they are without trying to change them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A true love cannot speak.
William Shakespeare

True love does not wait to be invited, it offers itself first.
Fray Luis de León

There is nothing impossible for a true love.
Alexandre Dumas - father

True love thinks of instant and eternity, never of duration.
Friedrich Nietzsche

True love has never known measure.
Sesto Properzio

They really love, those who tremble when they say they love.
Philip Sidney

True love stories never end.
Richard Bach

True love will never stop binding those it once bound.
Lucio Anneo Seneca

True love is like ghosts: everyone talks about them, but very few have seen them.
François de La Rochefoucauld

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than you can express.
Charlie Chaplin

True love is when you get as much pleasure from giving pleasure as you do from receiving it.
Paul Auster

True love begins when nothing is expected in return.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Aphorisms about the search for true love

There are those who think that true love is similar to that at first sight and therefore should not be searched for anxiously, while others believe that waiting for the right person will then be rewarded. Let's find out about the opinions of the great authors in this regard.

I don't want a love in half, torn apart, split in two. I have struggled and suffered so much that I deserve something complex, intense, indestructible.
Frida Kahlo

The love? It is not sought. He does not expect. You don't choose. It was born by chance, when you least expect it. It just comes! It comes on the saddest day, in the darkest period or even when you have lost hope and no longer want it. That's right, love never warns.
Fabio Volo

If there is a love that is pure and free from our other passions, it is what is hidden in the depths of our hearts and which we ourselves do not know.
François De La Rochefoucauld

If you want to be loved, love.
Lucio Anneo Seneca

Author's phrases to dedicate to your loved one

It often happens to look at your partner and look for words in the mind that are capable of expressing what we feel towards him, but not always succeed. Here are the most famous aphorisms to dedicate to those you love, to make your partner feel special and at the center of your world!

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

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

I love you not for who you are but for who I am when I am with you.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I don't know where my path goes, but I walk better when my hand holds yours.
Alfred de Musset

I love you with the breath, the smiles and the tears of my whole life.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love you but not the good like that, the simple one. I like the Good, the one made of colors and right smiles and hands extended to help and ears that listen and steps that when you are lost bring you back on the right path.
Fabrizio Caramagna

True love is walking hand in hand in the daily life of this world.
James Russell Lowell

Everything I love loses half of its pleasure if you are not there to share it with me.
José Ortega y Gasset

I love you as another woman will never be able to love you.
Frédéric Dard

Take away my bread, if you want, take away the air, but don't take away your smile.
Pablo Neruda

The most beautiful place to be is inside your heart.
Anonymous

If you don't love me, I'll never be loved. If I don't love you, I will never love.
Samuel Beckett

I love you with a love that is more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe

You are my most beautiful love
my favorite poem
the words I search for
the new colors.
Cristiana Tognazzi

You are my best friend, my human diary and my other half. You mean the world to me and I love you.
Anonymous

Since I fell in love with you, everything has transformed and is so full of beauty ... Love is like a perfume, like a current, like rain. You know, my heaven, you are like rain and I, like the earth, receive and welcome you.
Frida Kahlo

You were made to be loved, and I have certainly loved you, in your essence, all my life.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reason can be found. I am here thanks to you. You are the reason I exist. You are all my reasons.
From the movie A beautiful Mind

A glance from you, a single word from you, tells me more than all the wisdom of this world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can't tell how every time I put my arms around you, I feel at home.
Ernest Hemingway

My heart is and will always be yours.
Jane Austen

The funniest quotes about true love

Finally, we conclude with some ironic and irreverent phrases that always have love as their theme. D, on the other hand, loving each other means knowing how to take yourself a little seriously and even a little bit around, right?

Love is like measles, we all have to go through it. And, again like measles, we only take it once.
Jerome Klapka Jerome

It is necessary for a woman to leave a sign of herself, of her soul, to a man because we are all good at making love!
Alda Merini

Love is an inexperienced surgeon: forget the butterflies in your stomach, put your heart in your throat, move your head in the clouds.
Anonymous

Love is a fire. But you can never tell if it will warm your heart or if it will burn your house.
Joan Crawford

Love is the closest thing to psychosis. Love is madness
Sigmund Freud

Love is that thing that leaves its marks on you, takes your sleep away and whispers its thoughts in your ear. Love is a mosquito.
Anonymous

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.
Taraji P. Henson

Love is like linen: the sweeter the more often you change.
Phineas Fletcher

Phrases about true love