Finding true love is the number one goal for many people. So, if you are looking for true love quotes you have come to the right place. We gathered a list of the best soul mate quotes here about real love that are cute, funny or short. Hopefully you will find the perfect quote to use for inspiration or to help you let your loved one know how much you love them.
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Our Favorite True Love Quotes
“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.” – Torquato Tasso
“True love lasts forever.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.” – Gwendoline Christie
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” – Erich Segal
“Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.” – Tom Freston
“True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.” – Ricardo Montalban
“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
“True love – that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy – is a choice. It’s a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances.” – Mark Manson
“True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.” – Julia Roberts
“I think that true love, fairy tales, the positive messages of positive stories – I don’t think those ever die.” – Jon M. Chu
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Cute Couple Quotes, Cute Love Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Cute Couple Captions and Short Cute Quotes.
Real Love Quotes
“I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don’t let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that’s real love.” – Idina Menzel
“Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.” ― Sarah Cross
“I’m looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love.” ― Candace Bushnell
“If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.” ― Shannon Alder
“Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.” ― Jonathan Carroll
“Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.” ― Stephen King
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
“I think when we truly love something, we get the same true love in return.” – Diljit Dosanjh
“True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!” – Dada Vaswani
“I’ve been in love. I believe in destiny and true love.” – Michael Sorrentino
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare
“Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.” – Tori Spelling
“I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age.” – Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
“I’m looking for the unexplainable connection and spark – real, true love.” – Rachel Lindsay
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We all love a bit of ‘true love conquers all.’” – Sarah Pinborough
“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.“ – Henry Wadsworth
“We are most alive when we’re in love.“ – John Updike
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.“ – Charles Schulz
“Real love was dangerous. It got you from inside and held on tight. And if you didn’t let go fast enough you might be willing to do anything for its sake.” ― Alice Hoffman
True Love Quotes for Soul Mates
“The beautiful gift of my husband is that he saw me the way I’ve always wanted to be seen and there’s something really powerful to that. When you find true love I really believe that that’s what it is at its core.” – Jeremiah Brent
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de La Fontaine
“I love you… I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life.” – The Notebook
“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.” – Lauren Oliver
“I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” —Angelita Lim
“I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.” —Zelda Fitzgerald
“I promise to love you forever; every single day of forever.” – Stephenie Meyer
“Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
“I am catastrophically in love with you.” – Cassandra Clare
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor
“I love you more than I think I should.” – Becca Fitzpatrick
“I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express.” – Jude Morgan
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.” – Pablo Neruda
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you.” – Jane Eyre
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“My soul and your soul are forever tangled.” — N.R. Hart
“True love is putting someone else before yourself.” — Frozen
“True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.” – Justin Timberlake
“true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.” ― Jodi Picoult
“I want true love, because I don’t have so much time, and I want to spend my time with the right girl.” – Bill Kaulitz
“I still haven’t figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do.” – William C. Hannon
“I love you. You… you complete me.” — Jerry Maguire
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love… I love… I love you.” – Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
“I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you.” – John Legend
“I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person . You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever .” – David Gest
“I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” – Pablo Neruda
“Every day I’m convinced that I can’t possibly love you more… and every day I’m proven wrong.” – Steve Maraboli
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.“ – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.” – Paulo Coelho
“All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.“ – Leo Tolstoy
“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke
“You make me want to be a better man.” – Melvin Udall
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you are the world.” – Bill Wilson
“I love you very much, probably more than anybody could love another person.” – 50 First Dates
“I do love nothing in the world so much as you.” – William Shakespeare
“I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.” – Joe Dunthorne
“I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express.” – Jude Morgan
“I love you more today than yesterday. But, darling, not as much as tomorrow.” – Spiral Staircase
“Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.” – Samuel Lover
“I cannot imagine a life in your absence. You are like the breathe of air that I need to live, the drop of water in a thirsty desert. I need you like a bird needs the skies to go higher” – Constantine Jake
“I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don’t take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That’s permanent. That’s true love.” – John Lydon
“I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” —Ben Folds
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost
“Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
“Love is sharing your popcorn.” – Charles Schultz
“Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” – The Princess Bride
“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” – Elinor Glyn
True Love Never Dies Quotes
“True love is forever.” – Fabio Lanzoni
“To good and true love fear is forever affixed.” – Francois Rabelais
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi
“Love is something eternal.” — Vincent Van Gogh
“True love that lasts forever… yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.” – Zooey Deschanel
“True love never dies. It lives on in the people who believe in it.”
“I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” — E.M. Forster
“They say that your first love never dies. You can put out the flames, but not the fire.” — Bonnie Tyler
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” — Henry Van Dyke
“True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.” — Alicia Barnhart
“The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she reflects his love.” – Jeffrey Fry
“Love never dies, and spirit knows no loss. Keep in mind that a broken heart is an open heart.” – Louise Hay & David Kessler
“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” — Madame de Staël
Inspirational Quotes for Soul Mates
“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” ― Mandy Hale
“True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.” – Jennifer Aniston
“Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.” – Kate Forsyth
“You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.” – Courtney Thorne-Smith
“I believe in true love, and I believe in happy endings. And I believe.” – Christie Brinkley
“I keep saying this, and I truly mean this: I think that when you experience true love, it never really goes away.” – Inbar Lavi
“It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they’re destined to be.” – Michelle Yeoh
“True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.” – Monica Johnson
“Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.” – Rod Stewart
“True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.” – Stendhal
“People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.” – Simon Cowell
“We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.” – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.” – Billy Graham
“True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.” – Bryant H. McGill
“I attract perfect beings whom I can love and will love me in return. God and Goddesses of Love guide me to find my true love.” – Walter Mercado
“It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.” – LaToya Jackson
“It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.” – Bruce Forsyth
“Stars that shine bling in the moon night, might I find true love sqirreled away tonight?” – Isabel Yosito
“You don’t have to dumb down – you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I’ve found a couple – I’ve been lucky – but it’s probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.” – Kimora Lee Simmons
“In a lot of ways, if I were ambitious about anything – besides my career – I’d be ambitious about love. Ambitious in the sense that I really hope to find true love.” – Sonam Kapoor
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.” – Sadhu Vaswani
“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” – Honore de Balzac
“The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.” – Israel Zangwill
“Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.” – Mortimer Adler
“True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.” – Ellen G. White
“I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.” – Lana Del Rey
“Life is a game and true love is a trophy.” – Rufus Wainwright
“I’d love to do a love story. I’ve never done a true love story, which would be awesome. But then again, I don’t think I’ve had a true love story, even in my own life. Maybe that’s something I want to explore in my own life first.” – Lucas Hedges
“I love true love, and I’m a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want.” – Ali Larter
“I believe you have three loves in your life and one true love. I really do.” – Michael Sorrentino
“I loved reading ‘Anne of Green Gables’ and ‘Little Women’ and Jane Austen. Those were times when people really did have only one true love in their life.” – Annaleigh Ashford
“I do believe in one true love.” – Michelle Dockery
“Catwoman is Batman’s one true love. She’s tremendously popular with women because she’s both a heroine and a villainess.” – Julie Newmar
“’Passion’ a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.” – Samuel Richardson
“Every life has one true love snapshot.” – Mitch Albom
“Take responsibility for finding your one true love” – Bo Sanchez
“I believe we all have one true love, somewhere in this world I do.” – Britney Spears
“shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.” – Edna O’Brien
“We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who’s going to be the perfect fit. It’s just not a reality.” – Ethan Hawke
“People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky for me, she found me right back.” – Jack Carter
“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.” – Katherine Mansfield
“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.” ― William Goldman
I’ll love you then.” ― Cassandra Clare
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Laynni Locke
I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.
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