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!
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Famous quotes about love: Words for those troubled by love and romance (21–30)
To love is to layer your own happiness over another’s.Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz—often called an intellectual giant—wore many hats: philosopher, mathematician, thinker, politician, and diplomat.
He left us numerous maxims and famous sayings, and this one is a striking reflection on love.
I believe it is extremely difficult to align one’s own happiness with another’s.
Each person’s notion of happiness differs, and even two people in love are unlikely to have theirs overlap perfectly.
Yet perhaps it is precisely for that reason that our capacity to love is proven there.
Love is not about how much we give, but about how much compassion we pour into it.Mother Teresa
This is a quote from Mother Teresa, a saint of the Catholic Church, an honorary citizen of the United States, and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
It is wonderful to give something to others with love.
But if it is done for self-satisfaction, the other person will not receive your kindness as love.
To feel love, what matters is how much compassion is present.
The moment giving becomes the purpose or the means, what you give will no longer be joy or happiness, but loneliness and sorrow.
Quotes about love and romance: Words for those troubled by love (31–40)
Humans are endowed with a heart from heaven in order to love.Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
What is the reason we have a heart? The French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux said it is for loving.
It’s a very romantic way of thinking, but without a heart, you would never come to love someone.
Feeling fondness for someone or sensing that someone is special—all of that comes from your heart.
If you want to convey your feelings to someone important, it might be good not to overthink it, and to put your words into the world just as your heaven-given heart presents them.
Love is doing small things with great love.Mother Teresa
I would like to share words from Mother Teresa, a Catholic saint who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
This famous quote about love is among the best-known of her many sayings.
By “small things,” she meant gestures anyone can offer—smiling at a neighbor, helping with the cleaning, and other simple acts of kindness.
Each act may seem insignificant on its own, but when done with the greatest love, it can bring comfort and joy to others.
Expressing love is not actually so difficult; it’s something everyone can do.
I understand what it means to like someone, but I don’t understand the feeling of agonizing over it. I do understand why you’re troubled, but if you know the reason, that means you’ve already got your answer.Kazlaser
Falling for someone is perfectly natural.
It’s just as natural to feel torn, anxious, or stuck in your head, going in circles without finding a conclusion.
Even so, the moment you understand why you’re troubled, the answer is already within you.
Acknowledge your hesitation and anxiety as natural reactions, and then decide whether you will act on the reasons you’re struggling—what you choose will shape what comes next.
It’s wonderful to value the other person and those around you, but by honestly facing your own feelings, your heart will gradually settle, and you’ll get closer to your answer.
Loving someone, you know, is probably about praying that you yourself will change together with the person you love.Tatsuro Hoshino
Back in the Taisho and Showa eras, men walked ahead while women followed quietly three steps behind—thinking about it now, it feels a bit strange, but that was normal then.
There was also the bubble-era style of romance where the man took the lead assertively.
This line comes from a drama set in the Showa period, yet it exudes a timeless charm that fits our era, too.
It’s a refined line that captures the ideal shape of love: the two of us changing together, regardless of being a man or a woman.
When you fall for someone, no matter what they put you through, you just don’t feel any hatred or anger toward them at all.Tatsuro Hoshino
Hatsunori Hasegawa plays Kaoru’s late fiancé.
And of course, he also plays the character in the latter half of the drama who looks just like Kaoru’s former fiancé—the same Hatsunori Hasegawa, and both roles are incredibly cool! No wonder the heroine Kaoru falls for him…
Even with such powerful rivals in love in both the past and present, and even if he ends up being tossed around by Kaoru as a result, Tatsuro never blames her.
He’s just that big-hearted—tolerant in love, tolerant toward his partner.
“If I fall in love, I go all in” Tatsuro—honestly, you could almost revere him as a mentor in romance.