Love quotes have a remarkable power. A single sentence can put into words what we’ve felt for years but never quite managed to say. If you’re searching for love quotes to caption a photo, write in a card, send to someone special, or simply read on a quiet evening, you’ve come to the right place.
This collection of 230 love quotes spans centuries of poetry, literature, film, philosophy, and heartfelt originals crafted especially for this list. You’ll find short love quotes, deep love quotes, funny love quotes, and everything in between. For partners, for new love, for long-lasting love, and for self-love too.
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Love Quotes
Classic Love Quotes
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”— Audrey Hepburn
“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
“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”— Gabriel García Márquez
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”— Emily Brontë
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“I wish I knew how to quit you.”— Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”— Oscar Wilde
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.”— William Blake
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”— Aristotle
“The most important thing in the world is to learn to give out love, and to let it come in.”— Morrie Schwartz
“You have bewitched me, body and soul.”— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.”— Beyoncé Knowles
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”— George Sand
“Where there is love there is life.”— Mahatma Gandhi
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Love is a friendship set to music.”— Joseph Campbell
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”— Lao Tzu
“I have found the one whom my soul loves.”— Song of Solomon 3:4
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”— Robert Browning
“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”— William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”— Blaise Pascal
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I carry your heart with me, I carry it in my heart.”— E.E. Cummings
“All you need is love.”— John Lennon
“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.”— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love.”— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”— Plato
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”— Voltaire
“Love is the poetry of the senses.”— Honoré de Balzac
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”— Hermann Hesse
“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.”— Valerie Lombardo
“The best proof of love is trust.”— Joyce Brothers
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”— Mignon McLaughlin
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”— Pablo Picasso
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”— Albert Ellis
Short Love Quotes
“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.”
“In your arms is where I belong.”
“You are my greatest adventure.”
“Home is wherever I’m with you.”— Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
“You make my heart smile.”
“I choose you. Every single day.”
“You are the first and last thought of every day.”
“I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.”
“You are my sunshine and my shadow.”
“Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favourite.”
“You had me at hello.”— Jerry Maguire (1996)
“I am yours, and you are mine.”
“Love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”— Sam Keen
“You are my person.”
“My heart found its home in you.”
“To the moon and back.”
“You are enough. You are more than enough.”
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“You are my calm in every storm.”
“Still me favourite hello and hardest goodbye.”
“You are the reason I believe in love.”
“I love you to the stars and back again.”
“You complete me.”— Jerry Maguire (1996)
“I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.”— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“Forever isn’t long enough with you.”
“Loving you is the best thing I ever decided to do.”
“You make ordinary moments extraordinary.”
“I love you like the moon loves the tide.”
“With you, I am home.”
“You are my favourite distraction.”
“You are my everything and my nothing is ever without you.”
“Beside you is where I’ll always choose to be.”
“You are the best chapter in my story.”
“I like you even more than coffee. And that’s saying something.”
“I see you and the whole world makes sense.”
“You turn my ordinary into extraordinary.”
“Meeting you was fate. Loving you is a choice I make every morning.”
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything.”— Mignon McLaughlin
“You are the answer to a question I forgot I was asking.”
“You are the reason I look forward to tomorrow.”
Deep Romantic Love Quotes
“She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.”— Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting
“I want to be your favourite hello and your hardest goodbye.”
“You are the poem I never knew how to write but always felt in my chest.”
“When you realise 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, When Harry Met Sally
“I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.”
“You are the mirror that shows me who I could be at my best.”
“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. It’s about how much you love each other every single day.”
“In a world full of temporary things, you are a perpetual feeling.”
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
“What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.”— Victor Hugo
“My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.”— Boris Pasternak
“You are the one I want to run to when the world feels too heavy.”
“I never knew I was missing something until you arrived and filled every quiet corner of my heart.”
“To love you is to understand that some things are worth being completely reckless about.”
“I would choose you in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality.”
“You are simultaneously everything I expected and nothing I imagined.”
“I want to be the reason you look down at your phone and smile.”
“Every moment spent with you is a moment I add to my collection of treasures.”
“Loving you has made me a better version of everything I thought I could be.”
“My heart beats a little differently when you walk into the room.”
“You are the gravity that holds my world in place.”
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water rushing down and you holding onto me, and I never want to be anywhere else.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
“You are not just my lover. You are my confidant, my compass, my favourite human.”
“Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”— Sam Keen
“You make me want to be braver, kinder, and more fully myself.”
“With every word I have ever written, I have been trying to describe the feeling of loving you.”
“I knew I loved you before I met you — I think I dreamed you into life.”
“You are the constant in all my variables.”
“I don’t need paradise because I found you. I don’t need dreams because I already have you.”— Leo Christopher
“Love is not a noun to be defined, but a verb to be acted upon.”
“Your name is a song I keep humming without knowing I’ve started.”
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”— W.B. Yeats
“You are the one my soul recognises.”
“I love you in ways I haven’t invented language for yet.”
“You are the first person I want to tell when something good happens.”
“To be loved by you is to finally understand what all those love songs were about.”
“You are my most beautiful accident.”
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”— Jane Austen
“Loving you is the one risk I’d take a thousand times over.”
“You are the conversation I never want to end.”
Funny & Lighthearted Love Quotes
“I love you more than pizza, and that is saying a lot.”
“You’re the reason I smile at my phone like an idiot.”
“I love you with all my belly. I would say heart, but my belly is bigger.”
“Loving you is the only cardio I need.”
“You stole my heart, so I’m plotting my revenge — I’m going to make you love me forever.”
“I love you even when I’m hungry. That’s serious.”
“You’re my favourite weirdo.”
“I love you like a fat kid loves cake.”— 50 Cent
“You had me at ‘I brought snacks.'”
“I like you more than I originally planned.”
“If you were a vegetable, you’d be a cute-cumber.”
“I love you more than I love Wi-Fi. You are my Wi-Fi.”
“I love you even on days when I’d rather not talk to anyone — and that, my friend, is the highest compliment I give.”
“You’re the only person I’d share my chips with.”
“I love you like Kanye loves Kanye.”— Mindy Kaling
“Being in love with you makes every morning worth waking up for. Even on Mondays. Especially on Mondays.”
“You’re my favourite notification.”
“I tolerate you more than anyone else on this planet. That’s love.”
“If loving you is wrong, I never want to be right.”
“I’m so glad you exist. The world is a much better place with you (and someone who laughs at my jokes).”
“Before you, I didn’t know what it was like to want to share my blanket.”
“You are my favourite human to be annoying with.”
“I love you more than the person who invented elastic waistbands, and they deserve a Nobel Prize.”
“You complete me. Also, you always remember where I left my keys. Equally important.”
“Forget butterflies — I feel the whole zoo when I’m with you.”
“I love you 3000.”— Tony Stark, Avengers: Endgame
“You are the peanut butter to my jelly, the mac to my cheese, the absolute chaos to my barely-organised life.”
“Loving you is easy. Letting you have the last biscuit is where things get complicated.”
“You are my favourite inconvenience.”
“Love is telling someone their chocolate cake is not as good as mine, but eating two slices anyway.”— Anne Lamott
“I know I’m in love because I actually listen when you talk about your day.”
“You make staying in feel like the best night out.”
“I love you more with every cup of tea you make me.”
“You’re the weird one I chose. I’d choose you again.”
“Life is better with you in it, and also with good snacks. But mostly you.”
Quotes for Long-Lasting Love
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”— Henny Youngman
“A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.”— Anne Taylor Fleming
“The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.”— Ginger Rogers
“We are the lucky ones who grew up together and still chose to stay.”
“After all this time? Always.”— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Love is not just for the beginning. It’s the thing that gets sweeter the longer it is tended.”
“Grow old with me; the best is yet to come.”— Robert Browning
“I have loved you all my life. You just hadn’t arrived yet.”
“The longer I love you, the more I realise I am only just beginning.”
“Every year with you is my favourite year.”
“We didn’t realise we were making memories; we just knew we were having fun.”— Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
“Old love is the deepest love. It knows everything and forgives anyway.”
“My favourite thing to do is still whatever we’re doing together.”
“You have been my greatest adventure, and I’m not ready for it to end.”
“Forever is made of nows — and every now I have, I want to spend with you.”
“We have built something no one can take from us: a life well-loved together.”
“I’d marry you a thousand times if you’d let me.”
“I am more myself with you than I have ever been with anyone.”
“There is nothing I have ever wanted that I haven’t found in a life lived alongside you.”
“You are my constant. In every version of my life, I’d find my way to you.”
“Love that lasts is not a feeling. It’s a promise you wake up and choose every day.”
“We have become the kind of love story I used to read about.”
“I don’t just love you. I like you. And that endures more than most things.”
“A good relationship is made of ten thousand small acts of love, stacked up over years.”
“I still fall in love with you every morning, even before coffee.”
“You are not just the one I love. You are the one I still want to talk to at the end of a long day.”
“Our love story has so many chapters I’ve lost count. I hope it never ends.”
“The very best thing about my life is you.”
“I am so glad we chose each other.”
“After all we’ve been through, I’d still choose the beginning if it meant choosing you again.”
Self-Love Quotes
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”— Buddha
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”— Brené Brown
“You are enough, a thousand times enough.”
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity, it’s sanity.”— Katrina Mayer
“You are worthy of the love you keep trying to give to everyone else.”
“Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.”— Lucille Ball
“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.”— Sophia Bush
“Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.”— Desiderata
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”— Diane Von Furstenberg
“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.”
“Self-love is the source from which all other love flows.”
“You are not too much. You have simply been with people who weren’t enough.”
“Owning your story and loving yourself through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.”— Brené Brown
“Be the love you want to receive.”
“You were always enough. You just forgot for a while.”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”— William James
“You owe yourself the love that you so freely give to other people.”
“There is no light so bright as a person who has learned to love themselves.”
“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”
“You are your own home. Return to yourself often.”
New Love & Falling in Love Quotes
“I wasn’t expecting you. But here we are, and I couldn’t be more glad.”
“Falling for you was the most effortless thing I’ve ever done.”
“Meeting you was the plot twist I never saw coming.”
“It still surprises me how someone I didn’t know six months ago now feels like someone I’ve always known.”
“You are what I didn’t know I was looking for.”
“There is something terrifying and wonderful about the beginning of love.”
“I think about you in colours that don’t have names yet.”
“You are the best kind of unexpected.”
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”— George Bernard Shaw
“When you meet that person, a person. One of your soulmates, let the connection. Relationship be what it is. It may be five minutes; five hours, five years or a lifetime.”— Tom Hanks
“I think I was made to love you. I just needed time to find my way there.”
“The butterflies haven’t stopped yet. I hope they never do.”
“Loving you is the most alive I have ever felt.”
“Everything feels possible when I’m with you.”
“You make me want to be good at love.”
“Something in me shifted the moment I met you — and I’ve never been able to shift back.”
“I don’t know what this is yet, but I know I want to find out.”
“You walked in and quietly rearranged everything.”
“I keep finding new things to love about you. I don’t think the list will ever be finished.”
“There is no better feeling than realising you are falling for someone who is falling for you too.”
“You make the world feel smaller and safer.”
“I’ve started saving up moments with you like they’re rare coins.”
“Somewhere between hello and all of this, I fell completely in love with you.”
“You are the first thought in the morning I actually enjoy.”
“I don’t know where this is going. I just know I don’t want it to stop.”
Love is one of the most universal human experiences, and yet it feels entirely unique each time we encounter it. I hope you found a quote here that finally captured something you’d been feeling for years, or one that made you laugh, or one you’ll tuck into a card this week.
The most important love story you’ll ever tell is your own. Keep writing it. One day, one choice, one small act of tenderness at a time.
Share these quotes, pass them on, and above all: love boldly.
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