25 Love Quotes From Books

Isn’t love the greatest feeling in the world? Probably that’s why the world’s most genius minds have written and sung about it.

I have always enjoyed reading books about love, be it a happy ending love story or tragedy.

I find it impressive and ready to introduce me into a world of imagination, into the author’s world. I get there really deep and irreversible.

Therefore, enjoy my dear friends, these 25 stunning love quotes from books. Books that you or at least someone near you have heard of at least once.

1. “Who, being loved, is poor?” —Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

2. “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” —Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

3. “Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.” —Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Bound

4. “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” —Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

5. “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” —Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

6. “If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.” —Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

7. “Doubt thou that the sun is fire, Doubt that that the sun does move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt that I love.” —William Shakespeare, Hamlet

8. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

9. “I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” —Gabriel García Márquez, Love In The Time Of Cholera

10. “Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.” —Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries

11. “Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.” —Neil Gaiman, Stardust

12. “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” –Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

13. “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” —Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

14. “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same . . .” —Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

15. “I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?” —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

16. “He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.” —  W.H. Auden, Stop All The Clocks

17. “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further.” —  Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

18. “The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.” — George Orwell, 1984

19. “Each time you happen to me all over again.” — Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

20. “You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.” — Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

21. “Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

22. “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” —  Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

23. “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” —  Jane Austen, Emma

24. “He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.” — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

25. “You are the friend to whom my soul is attached as to its better half. You are dearer to me than language has the power of telling.” — Frances Burney, Evelina