Lily RoseYoung love is an exciting and emotional time. Those first feelings of attraction and the butterflies that come with a new crush or relationship are powerful at any age, but especially so in youth. The excitement, innocence, and openness that characterize young love make it special and memorable. Let’s explore some famous quotes that capture the essence of young love.
Quotes on Young Love
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”
– George Bernard Shaw
This quote humorously captures how naive and curious we are when experiencing love for the first time. Young love is often characterized by innocence, wonder, and a sense of exploration.
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
– Paulo Coelho
The feeling that your love was destined to be is common in young romance. This quote describes the magical feeling that the whole world brought you two together.
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
Young love can make you feel invincible. The support and affection provide strength, while having someone to care for gives you purpose. This quote summarizes how love empowers.
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.” –
Jalaluddin Rumi
Young love makes you believe in fairy tales and that anything is possible. This quote captures the optimism and anticipation of finding your true love.
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert Heinlein
This quote describes the selflessness of young love.
“Love is a friendship set to music.” –
Joseph Campbell
The excitement and passion of new love is intoxicating. This quote compares it to a good song that you can’t stop listening to.
“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Experiencing love for the first time makes life feel more meaningful. This quote suggests love adds purpose and joy to the journey.
Quotes about young love in Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare’s iconic play about two young lovers separated by family strife. Their passion and willingness to risk it all for each other epitomizes the idealism and abandon of youthful romance. Here are some key quotes about young love from this masterpiece.
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!”
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.”
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books.”
“Love is blind, and lovers cannot see.”
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold.”
“Tempt not a desperate man.”
“These violent delights have violent ends.”
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
“My only love sprung from my only hate.”
“Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
” Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
“O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard, being in night, all this is but a dream.”
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”
Love quotes for young lovers
The excitement and wonder of new love is perfectly captured in these romantic quotes celebrating young partners. They highlight the joy, passion, and boundless potential that youthful relationships can represent.
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss
“To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
― David Viscott
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
― Elizabeth Browning
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving.”
― Elbert Hubbard
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
― Helen Keller
“Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion.”
― Madeleine L’Engle
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“To love is nothing, to be loved is something. But to be loved by the one you love, that is everything.”
― Nikki Rowe
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; It had to be made, like bread: Remade all the time, Made new.”
― Og Mandino
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
― Washington Irving
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
― George Sand
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
― Aristotle
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
― Oscar Wilde
“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
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
― Victor Hugo
“Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”
― Jose Ortega y Gasset
Love at young age quotes
Falling in love early in life brings lessons, joy, heartbreak and memories that shape who we become. These quotes reflect on the unique experience and significance of first love.
“Nobody even imagines falling in love and also imagines that they won’t eventually fall out of it.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.”
― Honore de Balzac
“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charlie Brown
“So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“You never get over your first love.”
― Taylor Swift
“Your first love teaches you what it’s like to get your heart broken. But your second love teaches you what it means to be in love.”
― Saleem Sharma
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
― William Goldman
“My first love story is nothing special. I didn’t get my heart broken or learn any big lessons about life. I was just a teenager when we fell in love.”
― Taylor Swift
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde
“The love of a young girl is as soft as whipped cream and a puppy’s belly.”
― Jarod Kintz
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged cupid painted blind.”
― William Shakespeare
“Love is a great beautifier.”
― Louisa May Alcott
“The art of love…is largely the art of persistence.”
― Albert Ellis
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
― William Shakespeare
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’”
― Erich Fromm
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
― Elbert Hubbard
“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color — oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples…”
― Anna Godbersen
“First love cannot be cured.”
― Edward Cohen
Young love quotes and sayings
These young love quotes beautifully encapsulate the euphoria of new romance with their nostalgic and dreamy expressions. They remind us of the magic of first loves.
“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 being stupid together.”
― Paul Valery
“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 looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
― William Shakespeare
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
― Voltaire
“Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
― Karl A. Menninger
“Love will make you do things that you know is wrong, but you do them anyway.”
― Alysha Speer
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving.”
― Elbert Hubbard
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
“Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.”
― Louis Aragon
“The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.”
― Jean de la Bruyere
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’”
― Erich Fromm
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving.”
― Elbert Hubbard
“Love is an everlasting fire that lights all things with a brilliant blaze. Love is a spark which kindles the soul.”
― Bryant McGill
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Iris Murdoch
“You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.”
― Anonymous
“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Quotes about young love lasting forever
While young love often seems unending, these quotes take a more realistic view of first romance – acknowledging its magic but recognizing its likely impermanence. They reflect on how we carry it with us.
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.” –
George Bernard Shaw
“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.”
― George Eliot
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.”
― Honore de Balzac
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
― William Congreve
“It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return. But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.”
― Anonymous
“Love means exposing yourself to the pain of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.”
― Rick Warren
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran
“I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.”
― Ian McEwan
“Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest, and feels the strongest.”
― Anonymous
“It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”
― Miguel de Unamuno
“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.”
― C.S. Lewis
“One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without and find that breath is of little consequence.”
― Karen Marie Moning
“Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.”
― Fran Lebowitz
“Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.”
― Anonymous
“Love is not blind – It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.”
― Will Moss
“True love stories never have endings.”
― Richard Bach
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
― Washington Irving
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
“Love comes more than once, and it goes away for no reason. It’s never permanent, never eternal. You have to experience its coming and going.”
― Haruki Murakami
Young love is a special time of exploration, excitement, and hope. While it may not last forever, those feelings make an imprint on who we become. The famous quotes explored capture the euphoric essence of young romance. For those lucky enough to experience it, young love is a time they will never forget.
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