War and Peace Love Quote

While researching our list of the most famous couples in literature, we dug up some amazing love quotes. This one is our favourite:

“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.”

Leo Tolstoi, War and Peace

Literally in Love: 8 Famous Couples in Literature

In the mood for reading? In the mood for love? Let yourself be inspired by these famous couples in literature! We have put together a list of famous couples in literature and selected a quote from each work that you can use as a love quote:

The 8 most famous couples in literature:

1. Romeo and Juliet

No surprises here – Shakespeare’s star cross’d lovers belong on every list of famous couples. Despite – or maybe even because of – the fact that their love has no happy ending, they are firmly rooted in collective memory as THE most famous example of a love that knows no boundaries and that no earthly forces can dicorce.
Love quote from Romeo and Juliet:
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow”
William Shakespeare, Romeo und Julia

2. Tristan and Isolde

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