Spanish Love Quotes

"Amar es batallar, si dos se besan el mundo cambia."

To love is to battle; if two people kiss, the world changes.

— Octavio Paz

"Amar es encontrar en la felicidad de otro tu propia felicidad."

To love is to find your own happiness in the happiness of another.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

"Amor, cuántos caminos hasta llegar a un beso."

Love, how many roads to reach a kiss.

— Pablo Neruda

"Donde habite el olvido, en los vastos jardines sin aurora."

Where oblivion dwells, in the vast gardens without dawn.

— Luis Cernuda

"Donde hay amor, hay vida."

Where there is love, there is life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

"Donde no puedas amar, no te demores."

Where you cannot love, do not linger.

— Frida Kahlo

"El amor es ciego."

Love is blind.

— Proverb

"El amor es una pregunta que no tiene respuesta."

Love is a question that has no answer.

— Anonymous (often attributed to Octavio Paz)

"El amor no tiene cura, pero es la única medicina para todos los males."

Love has no cure, but it is the only medicine for all ills.

— Unknown

"El amor todo lo puede."

Love conquers all.

— Spanish Proverb

"El amor verdadero no tiene final feliz, porque el amor verdadero nunca termina."

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends.

— Anonymous / Widely misattributed to Pablo Neruda

"El amor y la fe se prueban con las obras."

Love and faith are proven by deeds.

— Traditional Proverb

"El corazón es un gitano, no se fija en ningún lugar."

The heart is a gypsy, it doesn't settle in any one place.

— Popularized by Gipsy Kings / Traditional Proverb

"Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido."

So short is love, and so long is forgetting.

— Pablo Neruda

"Hay dos clases de hombres: los que viven hablando de las mujeres y los que hablan con ellas."

There are two kinds of men: those who spend their lives talking about women, and those who talk with them.

— Antonio Machado

"La muerte no existe, la gente sólo muere cuando la olvidan."

Death does not exist, people only die when they are forgotten.

— Isabel Allende

"Me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente."

I like you when you're quiet because you are as if absent.

— Pablo Neruda

"Para que nada nos separe, que nada nos una."

So that nothing separates us, let nothing unite us.

— Pablo Neruda

"Podrá nublarse el sol eterno."

The eternal sun may be clouded over.

— Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

"Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche."

I can write the saddest lines tonight.

— Pablo Neruda

"Siempre hay un roto para un descosido."

There's always a 'broken one' for an 'unstitched one.' (Idiomatically: There's a lid for every pot.)

— Anonymous (Traditional Proverb)

"Te quiero no por quien eres, sino por quien soy cuando estoy contigo."

I love you not for who you are, but for who I am when I am with you.

— Gabriel García Márquez (Attributed)

"Volverán las oscuras golondrinas."

The dark swallows will return.

— Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer