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Wonderful quotes and sayings

Quotes about love and romance. Words for those who are troubled by love or matters of the heart.

In every era, love profoundly shapes our lives, doesn’t it?

We hesitate over whether to confess our feelings to someone we like, feel overwhelmed by the pain of heartbreak, or decide to walk through life together with the one we love…

In this article, we introduce quotes that resonate with these many scenes of love.

We’ve gathered sayings that teach us what matters when we love, what it means to live alongside someone precious, and what love itself is.

If you’re struggling with love or dreaming of it, be sure to take a look!

Famous quotes about love: Words for those troubled by love and romance (21–30)

Being loved is not happiness; it is loving that is happiness.Hermann Hesse

Being loved is not happiness; it is loving that is happiness. — Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse was a leading German literary figure and writer.

His major works include “Beneath the Wheel,” “Demian,” and “The Glass Bead Game,” and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.

This quote may come as a surprise to many.

We tend to think that being loved equals happiness.

However, being loved by someone you don’t care for, or in circumstances you don’t desire, can hardly be called happiness.

Finding what you love and living alongside it—that is what can truly be called happiness.

Love is trust. When you love someone, you must believe in them completely.Marilyn Monroe

Love is trust. When you love someone, you must believe in them completely. —Marilyn Monroe

This famous quote speaks to the essence of love—what it truly means to love someone.

Its author is Marilyn Monroe, an actress adored across generations.

She said that love is about trusting the other person completely.

That may well be the very heart of being in love.

Known as a woman of many romances, she married and divorced three times and was rumored to have dated numerous notable figures.

These words, born from her own experiences, are ones we should keep close to our hearts.

To love is, for the most part, to believe.Victor Hugo

To love is, for the most part, to believe. — Victor Hugo

A French novelist also known as Hugo.

Above all, if you mention the author of Les Misérables, everyone will know who you mean.

Film, stage, anime—through which Les Misérables did you encounter it? I believe this phrase truly gets to the essence of love.

To believe can mean to care, to understand, to entrust—its interpretation shifts in many ways, and in any situation it connects to a feeling of compassion for the other person.

Love isn’t just about demanding this and that from the other person.

I don’t think love is a matter of chance. I believe it’s a matter of will.Osamu Dazai

I don’t think love is a matter of chance. I believe it’s a matter of will. — Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai, who left behind masterpieces like No Longer Human and Run, Melos!, works that seize the folds of the heart, is said—though there are various theories—to have ended his life by drowning with a woman, as if symbolizing a life filled with love.

These words resonate as if to teach us that love does not simply fall from the sky.

There is no such thing as “naturally coming to love someone”; it argues that all of it is a matter of human will.

I suspect this feeling would speak even to those who don’t have a particular attachment to literature.

How did it make you feel?

Romance is self-centered; love is other-centered.Akihiro Miwa

Romance is self-centered; love is other-centered. — Akihiro Miwa

Akihiro Miwa, known for his striking yellow hair, is a celebrated singer and actor.

Many know him from his signature work “Black Lizard” and for voicing Moro in Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke.

This is one of his many famous quotes about love.

As the saying goes, “Love is blind,” and when we’re in love, many of us tend to act from a self-centered perspective.

By contrast, love is something nurtured together with the other person.

It’s important not only to focus on your own demands, but also to see things from your partner’s point of view.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.Alfred Tennyson

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Tennyson

This famous quote by the British poet Alfred Tennyson tells us that while losing someone you love is deeply sad, it may be even sadder to go through life without ever loving anyone at all.

Heartbreak is painful and lonely, but the fact that you loved someone remains warmly in your heart.

Sometimes, it might be good not only to love yourself, but to try loving someone else as well.

Men fall in love with their eyes, and women fall in love with their ears.Woodrow Wyatt

Men fall in love with their eyes, and women fall in love with their ears. — Woodrow Wyatt

What makes you fall in love with someone? According to a famous quote by British journalist Woodrow Wyatt, men fall in love with their eyes, and women with their ears.

True to those words, it’s often said that men are drawn to someone’s appearance, while women are attracted by what they hear, such as the way someone speaks.

How about you? If there’s someone you’re interested in, it might be a good idea to pay attention to your appearance when it’s a man, and to work on your way of speaking when it’s a woman.