Love Quotes for Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is the official Day of Love, and the day for lovers to speak what their hearts whisper. And for centuries, people have spoken or written about the love they long for, how it fills their heart, or how it hurts when it is lost.

Since love can be examined from many angles, it is the most popular subject in books, songs, movies and television. And often, it is what philosophical quotes are made of.

Love is that one simple word that is a noun and a verb, lifts up and lets down. It touches the poor and the rich alike. It can flood over us like a tsunami, or cover us like a fine mist until we are drenched. And it doesn't matter how love happens, the reality is that after it does, we are never the same.

Valentine Quotes for the Family

The kind of love that we feel for family is probably the most pure and enduring. No matter what happens, that genetic DNA provides an everlasting heart to heart bond so aptly explained in these quotes:

"You never get over being a child as long as you have a mother to go to." -Sarah Orne Jewett

"A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life." -Isadora James

"Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet." - Vietnamese Proverb

"Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old." -Mary H. Waldrip

"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life." - Sophocles

"Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps." - Joe Murray

"Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad." -Author Unknown

Valentine Quotes for Lovers

When it comes to lovers, love is credited for some of the most phenomenal miracles, and blamed for some of the worst disasters!

"A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be." -Nicholas de Chamfort

"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine." -EduardoGaleano "The book of Embraces".

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." -Plato

"When love is not madness, it is not love." -Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." -Albert Einstein

"Two things only a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love." -Antiphanes

"I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." -Roy Croft

"No one worth possessing can be quite possessed". -Sara Teasdale

"Love is a game that two can play and both win." -Eva Gabor

Valentine Quotes about Love in General

The Beatles sang in 1967, "All You Need is Love", but then in 1984, Tina Turner sang, "What's Love Got to do with It". Two songs that exemplify the opposite ends of the spectrum to which love can send us.

"Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold." -Zelda Fitzgerald

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb." -Robert Browning

"Some People, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts." -Martin Buxbaum in National Enquirer

"The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable." -Gabrielle Roy

"You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories." -Melanie Clark

"Love and time - those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent." -Gary Jennings Aztec

"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." -Franklin P Jones

"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work." -Pearl Bailey

February 14^th is the official day of love, and a perfect occasion to tell the people you care about how you feel. This Valentine's Day, whether you say it in your own words or borrow a line from someone else, the important thing is, that you say it!.

Reference:

Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes, published 1997 by The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.

The Quote Garden website

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