126 romantic love quotes ahead of Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day is almost upon us, and there's no better time to shower our loved ones with heartfelt messages.
If you're thinking about sending the right words to your significant other, it's time to pour on the romance — but this doesn't always come easily.
To help you along, we've put in the work to give you the tools to write the perfect message. From literary legends to singing stars, below are some romantic love quotes up your sleeve.
Now time to read on to find just the right quote to text your loved one or write in a card just because.
After all, as Henry David Thoreau once said, “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Love Quotes from Song Lyrics
"How sweet it is to be loved by you." — James Taylor, "How Sweet It Is"
"You fill my life with laughter, and somehow you make it better... Ease my troubles, that's what you do." — Rod Stewart, "Have I Told You Lately"
"God only knows what I'd be without you." —The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows"
"Never before has someone been more unforgettable." —Nat King Cole, "Unforgettable"
"You're still the one I run to, the one that I belong to. You're still the one I want for life." —Shania Twain, "Still the One"
"Like a river meets the sea, stronger than it's ever been, we've come so far since that day...and I thought I loved you then." —Brad Paisley, "Then"
"Some day, when I'm awfully low, when the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you and the way you look tonight." —Frank Sinatra, "The Way You Look Tonight"
"To the man that loved this woman after heartbreak, Thanks for all you didn't have to do." —Kelsea Ballerini, "To the Men That Love Women After Heartbreak"
"Wonder why you took a risk, On a broken heart you cannot fix. No, I never knew a love like this, Now we're picking purple irises." —Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, "Purple Irises"
"I love you more than my hometown." —Morgan Wallen, "More than My Hometown"
"You are my joy and my laughter/You are the moon and you gave the stars light/You are my ever after/Forever love, the light of my life." —Dolly Parton, "Forever Love"
"My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue. All’s well that ends well to end up with you." —Taylor Swift, "Lover"
"Well, I found a woman stronger than anyone I know. She shares my dreams; I hope that someday I'll share her home." —Ed Sheeran, "Perfect"
"It's a love story, baby just say 'yes.'"—Taylor Swift, "Love Story"
"When you put your arms around me, you let me know there's nothing in this world I can't do." —Keith Urban, "Somebody Like You"
Romantic Love Quotes for Him and for Her
“She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person.” —E. Leventhal
“If I had to choose between breathing or loving you, I would say ‘I love you’ with my last breath.” —Shannon Dermott
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” —Princess Diana
“If one day the moon calls you by your name don't be surprised, because every night I tell her about you.” —Shahrazad al-Khalij
“I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.” —Rae Carson
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” —Charles Dickens
“I will love you all my life and when I die, I will still love you through eternity and beyond.” —Leann Rimes
“My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding.” —Christina White
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
“Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” —Rosemonde Gerard
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” —Nicole Krauss
“If I never see you again I will always carry you inside, outside; on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.” —Charles Bukowski
“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” —Emily Bronte
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“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
“I’m not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.” —Sally Rooney
“I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.” —Jamie McGuire
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” —Elaine Davis
“Your love is better than ice cream, better than anything else I’ve tried.” —Sarah McLachlan
“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” —Julia Child
“If not for you, my sky would fall. Rain would gather, too. Without your love, I’d be nowhere at all. I’d be lost, if not for you.” —Bob Dylan
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” —John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“They say love is the best investment; the more you give, the more you get in return.” — Audrey Hepburn
“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” —Walter Winchell
Deep Love Quotes
“Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole.” —Buddha
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” —Robert A. Heinlein
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” —Paulo Coelho
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tau
“Love doesn’t grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, and wild leaps.” —Ian McEwan
“Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.” —Torquato Tasso
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” —Mother Teresa
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” —Zelda Fitzgerald
“True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.” —Nicholas Sparks
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.” —Katharine Hepburn
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” —Joan Crawford
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” —Jess C. Scott
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” —Jodi Picoult
“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.” —Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” —Bertrand Russell
“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” —Milan Kundera
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” —Carl Sagan
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” —Roy Croft
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” —Loretta Young
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.” —Charlotte Brontë
Short Love Quotes
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” —Audrey Hepburn
“Love recognizes no barriers.” —Maya Angelou
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.” —Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, screenplay adaptation
“I love you right up to the moon—and back.” —Sam McBratney
“You’re the closest to heaven, that I’ll ever be.” —Goo Goo Dolls
“You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” —E.E. Cummings
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” —Hermann Hesse
“My soul and your soul are forever tangled.” —N.R. Hart
“Love her but leave her wild.” —Atticus
“I knew I loved you before I met you.” —Savage Garden
“Love is friendship on fire.” —Susan Sontag
“I love you if you love me.” —Roberto Cavalli
“I need you like a heart needs a beat.” —One Republic
“Love is the absence of judgment.” —Dalai Lama
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” —Jean Anouilh
“There is no limit to the power of loving.” —John Morton
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” —Albert Einstein
“Love is a friendship set to music.” —Joseph Campbell
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” —Henry David Thoreau
“I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” —Ben Folds
“We can only learn to love by loving.” —Iris Murdoch
“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” — Theodore Roethke
“You are all of my today and all of my tomorrows.” —Leo Christopher
“You have bewitched me, body and soul.” —Jane Austen
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” —Robert Frost
Famous Love Quotes
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.” —Elvis Presley
“Everywhere I’m looking now, I’m surrounded by your embrace. Baby, I can see your halo. You know you’re my saving grace.” —Beyonce
“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
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” —Plato
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.” —1 Corinthians 13
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” —Mark Twain
“All you need is love.” —The Beatles
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” —Edgar Allan Poe
“I have found the one whom my soul loves.” —Song of Solomon 3:4
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Love is a game that two can play and both win." —Eva Gabor
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." —Vladimir Nabokov
“At last, my love has come along. My lonely days are over, and life is like a song." —Etta James
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.” —William Shakespeare
“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
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” —Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
“The regret of my life is that I have not said ‘I love you’ often enough.” —Yoko Ono
Inspirational Love Quotes
“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” —Rumi
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love!” —Sophocles
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” —Emily Dickinson
“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved...” —Victor Hugo
“Where there is love there is life.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Gifts are temporary and often forgotten; love is forever and always remembered.” —Ken Poirot
“Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.” —Vincent Van Gogh
“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” —Sinclair Lewis
“True love stories never have endings.” —Richard Bach
“Love never claims, it ever gives. Love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself.” —Gandhi
“True love is inexhaustible. The more you give, the more you have.” —Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” —Helen Keller
“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.” —William Goldman
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Franklin P. Jones
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” —James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.” —Honore de Balzac
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” —Leo Tolstoy
“If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me.” —Rumi
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