A list of 37 romantic quotes to share with the one you love on Valentine’s Day. Romantic love quotes for both him and her, and love in general.
Love is complicated. One of the most powerful feelings a person can have, this all-powerful, deeply human experience creates a personal connection like no other.
An extremely potent mix of biology, chemistry and psychology, when love blossoms it can make you feel like you’re soaring above the clouds. On the other hand, it can also bring you crashing down to earth, breaking your heart into pieces. Unsurprisingly, love has been the focus of authors, poets and philosophers throughout history.
And while you may want to write a poem for someone or sing them a love song, if you’ve ever sat down with a pen and paper and tried to express the feelings of tenderness you have in your heart, you may have discovered that it’s not that easy!
That’s where we come in.
Below, you’ll find our collection of love quotes. Perfect for Valentine’s Day, a birthday, or any special occasion, scroll down and before you know it you’ll find the perfect way to share your feelings of love and friendship.
Whether you’re using a quote to write a love letter, fill out a birthday card, or simply using it to send someone a thoughtful note, it’s time to pick your favorite, and start spreading the love!
Open Your Heart: Romantic Quotes About Love
While every love story is unique in its own way, they often share some similar elements. A good love story often makes people smile, with memories of laughter, inspiration, and joy never far away. Being loved by someone gives you courage, so go ahead, paint your lover a picture with words, and show them how much you love them by using the romantic love quotes below.
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
MAYA ANGELOU
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. MILNE
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
NORA EPHRON (more Nora Ephron quotes)
You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.
JANE AUSTEN
I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.
SONG OF SOLOMON 6:3
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
JUDY GARLAND
If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you.
DEANNA ANDERSON
How lucky am I to have someone who makes saying goodbye so hard.
A.A. MILNE
I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.
ANGELITA LIM
Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.
PABLO NERUDA (more Pablo Neruda quotes)
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN
Because of you, I can feel myself slowly, but surely, becoming the me I have always dreamed of being.
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate then when I fall asleep your eyes close.
PABLO NERUDA
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
PLATO
We simply can’t abandon ship every time we encounter a storm. Real love is about weathering the terms of life together.
SETH ADAM SMITH
You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
OSCAR WILDE
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
AGATHA CHRISTIE (more Agatha Christie quotes)
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
HELEN KELLER (more Helen Keller quotes)
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.
ROBERT BRAULT
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
MAYA ANGELOU
When you love someone, you love them as the person they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOY
Cute love quotes for your significant other
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
PAULO COELHO
I may not say much when I am with you, but all of me loves you all the time.
RICHARD NIXON
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
SAMUEL LOVER
Love is old, love is new, love is all, love is you.
THE BEATLES
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
HERMANN HESSE
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
DR. SEUSS (more Dr. Seuss quotes)
I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
J.R.R. TOLKIENI would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
DAVID VISCOTT
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
JAMES BALDWIN (more James Baldwin quotes)
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
ERICH FROMM
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
WAYNE DYER (more Wayne Dyer quotes)
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR.
When love is not madness it is not love.
PEDRO CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
CHARLES SCHULZ
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
BLAISE PASCAL
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
OSCAR WILDE (more Oscar Wilde quotes)
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
VICTOR HUGO (more Victor Hugo quotes)
You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.
JODI PICOULT
I’ve never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you’re not seeing an end to things.
LEIGHTON MEESTER
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
NATALIE COLE
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.
LAO TZU
Love Shines Like the Sun: Love Quotes for your Husband
If your man offers you a universe of positive emotions, forms a deep connection and acts as an inspiration, you have to tell him. You might feel as if your husband is the sun shining down on you, warming your heart and filling you with hope. Or, your husband may be your moon and your stars, someone who gives you strength, who makes you feel safe as you fall asleep slowly beside him.
But no matter how you say “I love you,” it’s always important to make sure that your husband knows how much he means to you. Express those special feelings, ones that only being loved by someone gives, using these love quotes
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
AUDREY HEPBURN
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
LAO TZU
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
ROSEMONDE GERARD
Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth.
ELEANOR DI GUILLO
My heart is and always will be yours.
JANE AUSTEN (more Jane Austen quotes)
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
JOHN LENNON
Everyday I discover that I love you even more, and in this infinite universe I will love you till the ends.
ALICIA N GREEN
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
MAWLANA JALAL-AL-DIN RUMI
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
PAULO COELHO
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our souls and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it Love.
DR. SEUSS
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.
ELAINE DAVIS
Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
VERONICA ROTH
To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.
T. TOLIS
Silence has a voice; I know this because it screams when you are away.
TYLER KNOTT
Love quotes for your wife
It doesn’t have to be Valentine’s Day for you to make your emotions known.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
EMILY BRONTË
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
GROUCHO MARX
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
GODFREY WINN
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
ARISTOTLE
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
HELEN KELLER
True love is not a hide-and-seek game; in true love, both lovers seek each other.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
FRANKLIN P. JONES
There are many things you shouldn’t measure. Don’t, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!
JULIAN BAGGINI
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.
SOPHOCLES
Friendship, Laughter and Love Quotes for Him
Is he your moon and your stars? Sometimes an honest confession is enough to make him feel special. Here are some love quotes for him to express your undying love.
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
PRINCESS DIANA
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, FROM A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
True love is your soul’s recognition of its counterpart in another.
JOHN (OWEN WILSON), FROM WEDDING CRASHERS
If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around.
DAVID (HUGH GRANT), FROM LOVE, ACTUALLY
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
MARCEL PROUST
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
YOKO ONO
No matter where I went, I always knew my way back to you. You are my compass star.
DIANA PETERFREUND
‘Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
JUDY GARLAND
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
INGRID BERGMAN
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
BLAISE PASCAL
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
ALAN WATTS
For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
STEPHANIE PERKINS, FROM ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
ELIZABETH GILBERT, FROM COMMITTED: A SKEPTIC MAKES PEACE WITH MARRIAGE
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, THE WHITE COMPANY
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
LAO-TZU
I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.
A.A. MILNE, WINNIE-THE-POOH
That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.
KAUI HART HEMMINGS, THE DESCENDENTS
We were together even when we were apart.
SHANNON A. THOMPSON, DEATH BEFORE DAYLIGHT
There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
MAHATMA GANDHI
But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.
LEMONY SNICKET, THE BEATRICE LETTERS
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
SAM KEEN, TO LOVE AND BE LOVED
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZAC
The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
HENRY MILLER
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
BLAISE PASCAL
Love quotes for her
The right words can hold more power than any material gift. They give you strength. And you don’t have to wait for any particular occasion to express your love for your beloved.
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
ANDRE BRETON
Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.
ROBERT BROWNING
To get the full value of a joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN (more Mark Twain quotes)
Love is our true destiny. We do not find meaning of life by ourselves alone- we find it with another.
THOMAS MERTON
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones.
ROBERT JORDAN
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
HELEN KELLER
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.
LEO CHRISTOPHER
Your words are my food, your breath is my wine. You are everything to me.
SARAH BERNHARDT
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, ATONEMENT
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
ANDRE BRETON
We are made of particles that existed since the moment the universe began. I like to think those atoms travelled 14 billion years through time and space to create us so that we could be together and make each other whole.
THE BIG BANG THEORY
There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.
LEO CHRISTOPHER
It’s like my life isn’t even real to me unless you’re there and you’re in it and I’m sharing it with you.
GILMORE GIRLS
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Love is not a matter of counting the years, But making the years count.
MICHELLE AMAND
The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun.
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.
IBN ABBAD
You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.
JULIA ROBERTS
You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
OSCAR WILDE
Valentine’s Day love quotes
Do you love the way your partner lives their life? Valentine’s Day is just the occasion to remind them. Using love quotes to express how much you love your partner is one of the best ways to celebrate a relationship. Here are some of the most beautiful Valentine’s Day love quotes for your perfect day of love, where happiness is raised to the next level.
Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
KATHARINE LEE BATES
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Love is quivering happiness.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.
ED SHEERAN
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
We are most alive when we’re in love.
JOHN UPDIKE
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDE
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
BIL KEANE
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
ALBERT CAMUS
Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
GLORIA STEINEM
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.
LISA BROOKS
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E.E. CUMMINGS
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
MADONNA
The heart has its reason of which reason knows nothing.
BLAISE PASCAL
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
HELEN KELLER
