19 Love and Mind Quotes

These quotes about love and mind prepares you to unite your rational mind with your romantic self for Valentine's Day.

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. -Nikos Kazantzakis

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. -William Shakespeare

A mind might ponder its thought for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with. -William James

The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one; yet the light of a whole life dies, when love is done. -Francis William Bourdillon

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride. -Bliss Carman

Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. -Ursula K. Le Guin

Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning. -Sir Walter Raleigh

Love is the mind's strong physic and the pill that leaves the heart sick and overturns the will. -Thomas Middleton

The fire of love and the cold of time, deprive my sweet love of his peace of mind. -Lope de Vega

Every conception of love inevitably depends on a view of the broader totality of the emotional mind. -Thomas Lewis

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake. -Aaron Hill

Only the free mind knows what Love is. -Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind - But how could I forget thee?     -William Wordsworth

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! -John Dryden

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity. -Giovanni Boccaccio

You may not love a person's ways, but you should always love the person. Separate the two in your mind and it will help you much. -Edward Eldridge

It is time, not the mind, that puts an end to love. -Publius Syrus

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. -Nathaniel Parker Willis

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True Love Quotes

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
-Henri Frédéric Amiel

True love is like a sigh from the heart; it teaches in a moment everything one ought to say. 
-Thomas Corneille

There is no hate that can lie alongside love in a true heart.
-Charles Reade

Love which economizes is never true love.
-Honoré de Balzac

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe’s conceit.
-Honoré de Balzac

True love can fear no one.
-Seneca

True love doesn't have a happy ending; true love doesn't have an ending.
-Anonymous

True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.
-Emanuel Geibel

True hearts that share one love, one life, will always know true joy.
-Jason Blake

True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.
-Susan Coolidge

I’ll just tell her she isn’t and never will be a true sailor’s true love until she takes a voyage with her husband.
-Peter B. Kyne

You believed you loved me, but I doubted my love, and I know now that no true love for you exists.
-Mark Rutherford

True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.
-Georg Moritz Ebers
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Love Quotes for Valentine's Day

It is time to sprinkle some romantic love dust over the person you love. Good love quotes are the best bits of the best romantic minds, suitable for you to spread around this Valentine’s Day. I was surprised how difficult it was to find suitable Valentines quotes. So many love quotes are too general, philosophical, and even sarcastic to go well with Valentine's Day. You don't want your loved one to wonder about the meaning of some word in quote. Hope these romantic love quotes will help you to convey your caring feeling to your love. Happy Valentine’s Day!

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.
-La Rochefoucald

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

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. -St. Augustine

My love most true has made me yours. -Juan del Encina

At one glance I love you with a thousand hearts. -Mihri Hatun

Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly, but flooding the river.
-Madagascan Proverb

I humbly do beseech you of your pardon for too much loving you.
-Shakespeare (Iago in Othello)

Your beauty’s form was shaped by God Himself, so are my feelings merely human love? -Amir Khusrau

Any time that is not spent on love is wasted. -Torquato Tasso

Youth’s for an hour, beauty’s a flower, but love is the jewel that wins the world. -Moira O’Neill

What’s the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth – compared with love found, gained, and kept? -Robert Browning

Stay, little Valentine, stay,
Each day is Valentine's day.
-Lorenz Hart: My Funny Valentine (1937 song)
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Rumi Quotes

Only he whose garment is rent by the violence of love is wholly pure from covetousness and sin.

Hail to thee, O Love, sweet madness! Thou who heal all our infirmities.

Love exalts our earthly bodies to heaven, and makes the very hills to dance with joy!

A true lover is proved such by his pain of heart; no sickness is there like sickness of heart.

The lover’s ailment is different from all ailments; Love is the astrolabe of God’s mysteries.

However much we describe and explain love, when we fall in love we are ashamed of our words.

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer.

When pen hasted to write, on reaching the subject of love it split in twain.

When the discourse touched on the matter of love, pen was broken and paper torn.

Only love itself can explain love and lovers.

The fertile garden of love, as it is boundless, contains other fruits besides joy and sorrow.

Love and tenderness are qualities of humanity, passion and lust are qualities of animality.

Woman is a ray of God, not a mere mistress, the Creator’s self, as it were, not a mere creature.

The lover’s love is visible but love depends not on outward form or face.

Through love bitter things seem sweet, through love bits of copper are made gold.

Through love thorns become roses, through love vinegar becomes sweet wine.

Through love burning fire is pleasing light.

Through love Ghouls turn into angels.

Kindle in thy heart the flame of love, and burn up utterly thoughts and fine expressions.

Love is fearless in the midst of the sea of fear.

One who is really loved is the single object of her lover, the Alpha and Omega of his desires.

With thee, my love, hell itself were heaven,

With thee a prison would be a rose garden.

With thee hell would be a mansion of delight,

Without thee lilies and roses would be as flames of fire.

The torch of love is all sweetness.

The love of the soul is for life and the living one, because its origin is the Soul not bound to place.

Love is as the ark appointed for the righteous, which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.

Love is a perfect muzzle of evil suggestions; without love who ever succeeded in stopping them?

Be a lover, and seek that fair beauty, hunt for that waterfowl in every stream.

The Way to Arcady

Love must kiss that mortal’s eyes
Who hopes to see fair Arcady.
No gold can buy you entrance there;
But beggared Love may go all bare—
No wisdom won with weariness;
But Love goes in with Folly’s dress—
No fame that wit could ever win;
But only Love may lead Love in.

-Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896)

Happiness from Loving

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.

-J.E. Buckrose

Tristram Shandy Quotes

Harsh and untuneful are the notes of love,
Unless my Julia strikes the key,
Her hand alone can touch the part,
Whose dulcet movement charms the heart,
And governs all the man with sympathetick sway.

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As the ancients agree, brother Toby, said my father, that there are two different and distinct kinds of love, according to the different parts which are affected by it — the Brain or Liver — I think when a man is in love, it behoves him a little to consider which of the two he is fallen into.

-Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1769)

I Loved You First - Christina Rossetti

I loved you first: but afterwards your love
Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song
As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove.
Which owes the other most? my love was long,
And yours one moment seemed to wax more strong;
I loved and guessed at you, you construed me
And loved me for what might or might not be –
Nay, weights and measures do us both a wrong.
For verily love knows not ‘mine’ or ‘thine;’
With separate ‘I’ and ‘thou’ free love has done,
For one is both and both are one in love:
Rich love knows nought of ‘thine that is not mine;’
Both have the strength and both the length thereof,
Both of us, of the love which makes us one.

-Christina Rossetti

When Love Is Done

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies,
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.

-F. W. Bourdillon: Among the Flowers

William Blake Love Quote - Tell Thy Love

Never pain to tell thy love
Love that never told can be
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

-William Blake: MS Note-Book

Philip Larkin - What Will Survive of Us

Time has transfigured them into
Untruth. The stone fidelity
They hardly meant has come to be
Their final blazon, and to prove
Our almost-instinct almost true:
What will survive of us is love.

-Philip Larkin: An Arundel Tomb

Adyashanti Quote - When True Love Arises

Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening.

-Adyashanti: Emptiness Dancing

Love Quote - I Loved You Once

I loved thee once. I’ll love no more,
Thine be the grief, as is the blame;
Thou art not what thou wast before,
What reason I should be the same?

-Sir Robert Aytoun (1570-1638)

Falling in Love

Falling in love often presents us with the opportunity of experiencing a deeper reality. Feeling that someone was fated to come into one’s life, having a sense that
someone is a soul mate, appeals to a level of reality not referred to by our
ongoing concerns with practical matters. It suggests that there is some meaning
in life that is not created by us, but is there to be found. Falling in love
also gives many people a sense that such powerful feelings have trans-human
origins, that somehow the divine is connected with the love they feel.

-Bonnelle Lewis Strickling: Dreaming about the Divine (2007)

Thomas Campion Quote - The Seasons

The Summer hath his joys,
And Winter his delights.
Through Love and all his pleasures are but toys,
They shorten tedious nights.

-Thomas Campion (1567-1620): Now Winter Nights Enlarge

Twilight Love Quotes

About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was part of him — and I didn't know how potent that part might be — that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
...

My head was spinning at the rapid change in direction our conversation had taken. From the cheerful topic of my impending demise, we were suddenly declaring ourselves. He waited, and even though I looked down to study our hands between us, I knew his golden eyes were on me. "You already know how I feel, of course," I finally said. "I'm here… which, roughly translated, means I would rather die than stay away from you." I frowned. "I'm an idiot."

"You are an idiot," he agreed with a laugh. Our eyes met, and I laughed, too. We laughed together at the idiocy and sheer impossibility of such a moment.

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
...

"Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?"
...

His gold eyes grew very soft. "You said you loved me."
"You knew that already," I reminded him, ducking my head.
"It was nice to hear, just the same."
I hid my face against his shoulder.
"I love you," I whispered.
"You are my life now," he answered simply.
There was nothing more to say for the moment. He rocked us back and forth as the room grew lighter.
...

"I love you," he said. "It's a poor excuse for what I'm doing, but it's still true."
It was the first time he'd said he loved me — in so many words. He might not realize it, but I certainly did.
"Now, please try to behave yourself," he continued, and he bent to softly brush his lips against mine.
I held properly still. Then I sighed.
...

I stopped on the porch and took hold of his face in my hands. I looked fiercely into his eyes.
"I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now."
"Nothing is going to happen to you, Bella," he said just as fiercely.
...

"Edward." I tried to tell him, but my voice was so heavy and slow. I couldn't understand myself.
"Bella, you're going to be fine. Can you hear me, Bella? I love you."
...

He sighed without returning my gaze. "It was impossible… to stop," he whispered. "Impossible. But I did." He looked up finally, with half a smile.
"I must love you."
...

-Stephenie Meyer: Twilight

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Matthew Arnold Quote - Love, let us be true to one another

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

-Matthew Arnold: from Dover Beach (1867)

Balzac Quotes - Honoré de Balzac on Love

Love has its own instinct. It knows how to find the road to the heart just as the weakest insect moves towards its flower by an irresistible will which fears nothing. Honoré de Balzac: La Femme de trente ans (1832)

To love without hope, to be disgusted with life, constitute, in these days, a social position. Ferragus

I love him for his own sake, the dear cherub. For four years his home has been in my heart. Cousin Betty

Women believe in men when they flavor their speeches with the word love. Colonel Chabert

Those in love either doubt nothing or doubt everything. 

To love without hope is still happiness. 

If light is the first love of life, is not love a light to the heart? 

Love is the gold, hatred the iron of the mine of feeling that lies buried in us. 

Love and vengeance, hunting together, will always strike down their prey.

Love is to the moral nature exactly what the sun is to the earth. 

Love is the only passion that cares not about the past or the future.

Love Quotes Romantic - Voltaire on Love

There are so many kinds of love, that in order to define it, we scarcely know which to direct our attention to. Some boldly apply the name of “love” to a caprice of a few days, a connection without attachment, passion without affection, the affectations of cicisbeism, a cold usage, a romantic fancy, a taste speedily followed by a distaste. They apply the name to a thousand chimeras.

If you wish to form an idea of love, look at the sparrows in your garden; behold your doves; contemplate the bull when introduced to the heifer; look at that powerful and spirited horse which two of your grooms are conducting to the mare that quietly awaits him, and is evidently pleased at his approach; observe the flashing of his eyes, notice the strength and loudness of his neighings, the boundings, the curvetings, the ears erect, the mouth opening with convulsive gaspings, the distended nostrils, the breath of fire, the raised and waving mane, and the impetuous movement with which he rushes towards the object which nature has destined for him; do not, however, be jealous of his happiness; but reflect on the advantages of the human species; they afford ample compensation in love for all those which nature has conferred on mere animals—strength, beauty, lightness, and rapidity.

As men have been endowed with the talent of perfecting whatever nature has bestowed upon them, they have accordingly perfected the gift of love. Cleanliness, personal attention, and regard to health render the frame more sensitive, and consequently increase its capacity of gratification. All the other amiable and valuable sentiments enter afterwards into that of love, like the metals which amalgamate with gold; friendship and esteem readily fly to its support; and talents both of body and of mind are new and strengthening bonds.

-Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary

Love Quotes Romantic - The Death of the Heart

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

-Elizabeth Bowen