Beloved Quotes

On what — and who — we call beloved.

These quotes stretch 'beloved' well past romance — an object so cherished it becomes its own small paradise, an instrument a musician calls beloved by name, and a mystic's line about the seeker eventually realizing they are both lover and beloved at once.


One quote even resists the label, insisting that being liked isn't the point of the job. For more, browse Affection and Heart quotes.