13 *Passionate* Definitions Of Love That Will Melt Your Heart!

Love is a lot of things. For some it’s as precious as gold, for others it’s as irreplaceable as a diamond… And many call it the tragedy you cannot avoid. Here are 13 passionate quotes about love if you too are trying to figure out what love is, like the rest of us! 

1. ‘Love is not some tool for manipulation. Love is a gift - love is from God. Love means everything.’ - Siri Mitchell, A Constant Heart 


2. ‘Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.’ - H. L. Mencken, Heliogabalus 

3. ‘What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.’ -  Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 

4. ‘Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.’ - Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature 


5. ‘Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.’ - Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life 

6. ‘Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.’ - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven 

7. ‘Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.’ - Paulo Coelho, The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession 


8. ‘Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.’ - Robert Frost, Source 

9. ‘Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being ‘in love’, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.’ - Louis de Bernières, Corelli's Mandolin 

10 ‘Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It’s just a little while, and then it burns away… Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.’ - Charles Bukowski, Source 


11. ‘Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.’ - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey 

12. ‘Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.’ - Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby 

13. ‘Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.’ - James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Non-fiction, 1948-1985