Short Love Quotes & Brief Romantic Sayings for Big Romances

Short Love Quotes: picture of yelllow spring flowers.

Looking for some powerful, short love quotes? Something to use in your love letter? Or maybe something that you can use in a SMS? Or in your essay about love? Or, indeed, just about anywhere else … 


• We’ve hand picked some of the best brief love quotes for you!
• Four bunches of them to be exact.
• They’re short, sweet love quotes which pack a punch.
• Please enjoy!

The Best Shortest Love Quotes

Picture of two statues kissing. Man and woman figures kissing.

With love being such an all-encompassing subject, isn’t it amazing how much can be said in just one or two brief sentences?

Please enjoy this mini-collection of the best (short) love quotes we have encountered so far:

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ~

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
~ Unknown ~

Love isn’t blind; it just only sees what matters.
~ William Curry ~

It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.
~ Glenway Wescott ~

Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
~ Karl Menninger ~

Saving love doesn’t bring any interest.
~ Mae West ~

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
~ Willa Cather ~

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
~ Søren Kierkegaard ~

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
~ Mother Teresa ~

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
~ Buddha ~

The Second Best

Here’s the second mini-collection:

Things are beautiful if you love them.
~ Jean Anouilh ~

3 love heart ballons

If you love life, life will love you back.
~ Norman Vincent Peale ~

Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
~ St. John of the Cross ~

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ~

Where there is love there is life.
~ Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi ~

Any time not spent on love is wasted.
~ Torquato Tasso ~

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
~ Unknown ~

All you need is love.
~ John Lennon ~

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
~ Oscar Wilde ~

It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not.
~ Andre Gide ~


The Third Best Short Love Quotes

Short Love Quotes: picture of a red rose with stalk on a black background.

And here’s the third mini-collection:

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
~ Duke Ellington ~

If you MUST love me for a REASON, then please let that reason be love.
~ Unknown ~

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
~ Robert Newton Anthony ~

Love is metaphysical gravity.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller ~

Love is a better master than duty.
~ Albert Einstein ~

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
~ Jean Anouilh ~

Man knows that love is, but not what it is.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg ~

True love stories never have endings.
~ Richard Bach ~

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
~ Albert Camus ~

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
~ John LeCarre (from The Secret Pilgrim) ~

The Fourth Best

Love heart drawing featuring two swans that make a heart.

And finally: The fourth and last mini-collection of short love quotes:

Love, true love, is that which can give the most without asking or demanding anything in return.
~ Mazie Hammond ~

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
~ Wayne Dyer ~

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
~ John Powell ~

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~ Thoreau ~

Without love our life is … a ship without a rudder … like a body without a soul.
~ Sholem Aleichem ~

We love being in love, that’s the truth on’t.
~ William Markepeace Thackery ~

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.
~ H.L. Mencken ~

Love has but one word and it never repeats itself.
~ Lacordaire ~

Love all, trust a few.
~ William Shakespeare ~

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