The best thirty love phrases for Valentine´s Day

February 14th is when we celebrate the importance of love in our lives, those who make us better every day and share our happiness. We have compiled some love phrases for you to dedicate to that special person.

Love has been present in books, plays, songs, poems, and even episodes of history and has inspired great stories. But it has also been the source of numerous studies that seek to explain what it is and its role in our lives; from psychology to philosophy, this feeling has generated many theories.

For Erich Fromm, a German psychologist and humanist, love is an act of the will, in which each person decides to love, care, take responsibility, and care for another. He saw in this feeling an opportunity for the growth of those involved without giving up integrity and independence.

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These phrases that we selected for you recall the thoughts of writers, philosophers, and artists about love. Enjoy them!

“Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.” Dalai Lama, spiritual leader.
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” Lao Tzu, philosopher.
“It is love, and not reason, that is stronger than death.” Thomas Mann, writer.
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” David Viscott, psychiatrist.
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” A.A. Milne, writer.
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” Albert Einstein, physicist.
“When I saw you, I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.” William Shakespeare, playwright.
“I know I’m going to love you without questions; I know I am going to love you without answers.” Mario Benedetti, writer.
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched… they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller, writer.
“I can’t sleep. I have a woman pierced between my eyelids. If I could, I would tell her to go away; but I have a woman across the throat”. Eduardo Galeano, writer.

Love is the source of inspiration for many works, from literature to cinematography. Photo: Pixabay

“One is in love when one realizes that the other person is unique.” Jorge Luis Borges, writer.
“Love conquers all things; let surrender to love.” Virgil, poet.
“Love is an intensity, and for this reason, it is a distension of time: it stretches the minutes and lengthens them like centuries.” Octavio Paz, writer.
“The root of all passions is love. Sadness, joy, happiness, and despair are born from him.” Lope de Vega, playwright.
“What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.” Charles Baudelaire, poet.
“For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.” Albert Camus, novelist.
“Love is a wonderful flower, but it is necessary to have the courage to go and look for it on the edge of a horrible precipice.” Stendhal, writer.
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but looking outward together in the same direction.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, writer.
“A world without love would be no world.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, playwright.
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” Pablo Neruda, poet.

Phrases about love are a way of expressing what we feel for the loved one. Photo: Pixabay

“If you want to know what a woman really means –which, by the way, is always a dangerous thing to do—look at her, don’t listen to her.” Oscar Wilde, writer.
“I love how loves love. I know of no other reason to love than to love you. What do you want me to tell you besides that I love you if what I want to tell you is that I love you?” Fernando Pessoa, poet.
“Love has no cure, but it is the only medicine for all ills.” Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter.
“It is by separating when you feel and understand the strength with which you love yourself.” Fyodor Dostoevsky, novelist.
“One is in love when one realizes that the other person is unique.” Jorge Luis Borges, writer.
“Neither love is a cage, nor is freedom being alone. Love is the freedom to fly together; it is to let be without possessing”. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, writer.
“Life is the flower of which love is the honey.” Victor Hugo, playwright.
“I love you more than my own skin.” Frida Kahlo, painter.
“There is no instinct like that of the heart.” Lord Byron, poet.
“Love is a flower that you must let grow.” John Lennon, musician.