Famous Love Quotes From Songs

Have you ever tried to write a love song? Maybe you delivered one to your inamorato this morning. I doubt it. It’s not easy to pen lyrics about romance without coming across a complete twonk. Luckily for you, it’s not too late to buy a card from the petrol station and whack in one of the quotes below. We asked our Twitter followers and staffers in the NME office to suggest the most beautiful lyrics about love ever written. No, R Kelly’s ‘The Zoo’ (“I’m your sexasaurus, baby”) did not make the cut. After a scan at the hundreds of ‘love lyrics’ we’ve already received, Alex Turner’s come out as the chief scribe of romance. Comment below or tweet us your choices @NME followed by #lovelyric.

Famous Love Quotes and Sayings A hand-picked collection of famous quotations and sayings about love by hundreds of different authors. We all need to be reminded, from time to time, of the importance of having love in our life and that is why I have compiled a list of famous love quotes and sayings that will help inspire you to make love and romance a priority in your life.

    1. The White Stripes, ‘Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground’


Suggested by: @Kelsey_Baldwin. Photo: PA

    1. Arctic Monkeys, ‘Suck It And See’


Suggested by: @lornathewizard. Photo: Andy Willsher/NME

    1. Chris Isaak, ‘Wicked Game’

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Suggested by: @Vanadia2. Photo: Richard Johnson/NME

    1. Elbow, ‘Mirrorball’


‏Suggested by: @adamkeyworth. Photo: Emilie Bailey/NME

    1. The Beatles, ‘Something’


Suggested by: @benjaminhaslem. Photo: PA

    1. Big Star, ‘My Life Is Right’


Suggested by: Alan Woodhouse. Photo: Retna

    1. The Maccabees, ‘About Your Dress’


Suggested by: @NathanFlaherty. Photo: Richard Johnson/NME

    1. The Cure, ‘Plainsong’


Suggested by: Bobby Dew. Photo: Tom Oxley/NME

    1. Depeche Mode, ‘Here Is The House’


Suggested by: @Vanadia2. Songwriter: Dave Grohl. Photo: Danny North/NME

    1. Bob Dylan, ‘To Make You Feel My Love’


Suggested: @whenisaywhen. Photo: Retna

    1. Joanna Newsom, ‘Good Intentions Paving Company’


Suggested by: Ed Harkness. Songwriter: Ian Curtis. Photo: PA

    1. Harry Nilsson, ‘Without Her’


Suggested by: @Vanadia2.Songwriter: Trent Reznor. Photo: PA

    1. The Smiths, ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’


Suggested by: @City_Of_Bugs. Photo: PA

    1. Van Morrison, ‘Astral Weeks’


Suggested by: Jon Swaine. Photo: Richard Johnson/NME

    1. John Butler Trio, ‘Fool For You’


Suggested by: @robjohnsonmusic. Photo: PA

Famous Love Quotes From Songs
    1. Radiohead, ‘True Love Waits’


Or is it “be in peace”? Suggested by: @Shodood. Photo: Jo McCaughey/NME

    1. Belle & Sebastian, ‘Piazza, New York Catcher’


Suggested by: @itsahmimsx. Photo: PA

    1. Etta James, ‘At Last’


Suggested by: @George95Jones. Songwriter: Mack Gordon, Harry Warren. Photo: Roger Sargent/NME

    1. Paul Simon, ‘Graceland’


Suggested by: Luke Lewis. Photo: PA

    1. Pixies, ‘The Sad Punk’


Suggested by: @onionrick. Photo: Richard Johnson/NME

    1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, ‘Straight To You’


Suggested by: Jenny Stevens. Photo: Richard Johnson/NME

    1. Beautiful South, ‘Song For Whoever’


Suggested by: @amywootten. Photo: Richard Johnson/NME

    1. Blur, ‘Tender’


Suggested by: ‏@mr_patrickgw. Photo: PA

    1. REM, ‘At My Most Beautiful’


Suggested by: Alan Woodhouse. Photo: PA

    1. Fiona Apple, ‘I Know’


Suggested by: Moreeshar Pastrokownskroozles. Photo: Andy Willsher/NME

    1. El-P, ‘Habeas Corpses’


Suggested by: James Clohessy. Photo: Getty Images

Famous love quotes from rap songs
    1. Glen Campbell, ‘Wichita Lineman’


Songwriter: Jimmy Webb. Suggested by: @CorrespondingH and Lucy Jones. Photo: Getty

    1. Joni Mitchell, ‘My Old Man’


Suggested by: Fidelia Marmot. Songwriters: Hayden Thorpe. Photo: Roger Sargent/NME

    1. Stephen Merritt, ‘As You Turn To Go’


Suggested by: Shane Richmond. Songwriter: Stephin Merritt.

Some quotes are forgotten; while others go on to make history. Some become so famous that they acquire the status of platitudes. These platitudes then go on to become adages. Here are a few famous quotes about love that have become legends in their own right.

Rabindranath Tagore
'I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.'

Emily Dickinson
'That love is all there is,
Is all we know of love.'

Katherine Hepburn
'Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.'

Charles Dickens
'Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'

Martin Luther King, Jr.
'Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.'

Mohandas K. Gandhi
'Love never claims, it ever gives.'

Sir Winston Churchill
'Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl. No superior alternative has yet been found.'

'My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.'

Plato

'He who love touches walks not in darkness.'

Robert Browning

'What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?'

Emily Bronte

'Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.'

Carl Jung

Rock

'Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.'

'He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.'

William Shakespeare

Famous Love Quotes From Movies

'I love thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold
And the stars grow old.'

'Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.'

'No, this trick won't work. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?'

'Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.'

'To get the full value of joy
You must have someone to divide it with.'