Falling in love is one of the most beautiful feelings in the world. But when it’s a secret affair or relationship, it can be even more thrilling and passionate. Secret love adds a sense of mystery, excitement and taboo to the mix. If you’re currently involved in a secret romance, these quotes will speak to your heart. Keep reading for 100+ of the best quotes about Secret love that perfectly capture the magic and complexities of your hidden bond.
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Quotes About Secret Love:
“Stolen glances, secret kisses. That’s all I’ve ever known with you.”
“In the secret space of dreams, we find ourselves solely. That is how the cosmos speaks, in the language of metamorphosis.”
– Rumi
“I may not get to see you as often as I like. I may not get to hold you in my arms all through the night. But deep in my heart I truly know, you’re the one that I love and I can’t let you go.”
– Anonymous
“The flame of forbidden love burns the hottest.”
– Anonymous
“Love means exposing yourself to the pain of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.”
– Anonymous
“For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.”
– Rosemonde Gerard
“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”
– J.K. Rowling
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Forbidden things have a secret charm.”
– Tacitus
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Bronte
“The forbiddenness made it sexy and dangerous.”
– Michelle Hodkin
“Moments forbidden are often the sweetest.”
– Victoria Holt
“Love in secret is always sweet.”
– Publilius Syrus
“Love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It’s also transgression and possession, but we tend to forget that.”
– Maggie Stiefvater
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
– Les Miserables
“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.”
– Pearl Bailey
“The heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.”
– Emily Dickinson
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Where there is great love, there are always wishes.”
– Willa Cather
“Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope.” – Anonymous
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
– Katharine Lee Bates
“Love is that irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
– Mark Twain
“I may not get to hold you close in public, but in my dreams you’re always near.”
– Unknown
“A love like ours must be concealed from prying eyes, for they could never understand the power and the glory of two souls destined to be together.”
– Mika Waltari
“forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest”
– Irish proverb
“The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.”
― Charles Henry Parkhurst
“Love is full of anxious fondness and fearful bliss.”
– Ovid
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
– William Shakespeare
“No matter how forbidden the dream, love will find a way.”
– Unknown
“True love stories never end”
– Unknown
“Secret love does not have anything to do with shame.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.”
– Mary Parrish
“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.”
– Mark Overby
“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars”
– Gilbert Parker
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
– Marilyn Monroe
“Love is when even before you touch, he makes your skin tingle.”
– Daniel Jones
“The heart has its reasons that reason knows not.”
Blaise Pascal
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
Katharine Lee Bates
“A heart in love with beauty never grows old.”
Turkish proverb
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
Oscar Wilde
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle
“The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.”
Albert Ellis
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’”
Erich Fromm
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
Voltaire
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
Elizabeth Browning
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau
“To love another is something like prayer and can’t be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.”
Anne Sexton
“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved.”
Thomas Merton
“Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Love doesn’t dominate; it cultivates.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
H. L. Mencken
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
“Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.”
Leo Buscaglia
“Love is not only something you feel. It’s something you do.”
David Wilkerson
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
Jane Austen
“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
James Russell Lowell
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Jeanne Moreau
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.”
Sophocles
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
Janos Arnay
“Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain, Unravelled from the tumbling main, And threading the eye of a yellow star: – So many times do I love again.”
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
“I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“We loved each other not for what we were, but for what we were becoming.”
Anaïs Nin
“Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.”
Alphonse de Lamartine
To love someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.”
Margaret Atwood
“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.”
Audre Lorde
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert Heinlein
“The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.”
Blaise Pascal
“Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love”
Leo Buscaglia
“True love stories never have endings.”
Richard Bach
“Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.”
Michael Novak
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
Unknown
“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
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert Heinlein
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
Audrey Hepburn
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it’s what you are expected to give — which is everything.”
Unknown
“Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion.”
Honore de Balzac
“The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.”
Og Mandino
“Love is always being given where it is not required.”
E. M. Forster
“Secret love does not have anything to do with shame.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.”
Ricardo Montalban
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
Peter Ustinov
“Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.”
Dolly Parton
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
Joan Crawford
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
David Viscott
“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.”
John Lennon
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
Nicholas Sparks
“Love is the melody, the rhythm, and the harmony of two hearts dancing to the same song.”
Kellie Elmore
“The heart was made to be broken.”
Oscar Wilde
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Conclusion:
Secret affairs of the heart can be bittersweet – full of passion and romance but also heartache and longing when you can’t be together. These beautiful quotes encapsulate the complex rollercoaster of emotions that come with clandestine love. So if you’re involved in a hidden relationship, treasure each stolen moment and keep these wise words close to your heart. A secret romance might not be conventional, but that doesn’t make it any less magical.
Emily Parker founded Quoteskit.com in 2023 as a place to share her love of inspirational quotes about love, life and happiness. As an avid reader, Emily has always turned to books, poems and famous sayings to boost her mood or gain new perspectives. She started Quoteskit as a passion project with the goal of spreading more joy, wisdom and positivity in the world.
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