113 Quotes About Love That Will Melt Your Stone-Cold Heart
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The best quotes about love bring home exactly how important it is to our lives. While the origins of Valentine’s Day might be less than romantic, our modern day version of the holiday reminds us to celebrate our love for the people we care about. Friends, families, significant others, every single person around us should feel as special and as adored as they make us feel.
Whether you’re a sappy romantic like me (yes, I am a Pisces, thank you very much) or you prefer more subtle ways to show your love, taking time to write a Valentine’s Day card can remind our loved ones how much they mean to us. It’s also a great opportunity to let your crush know you’re into them. You don’t have to say “I love you,” but there’s power in Taylor Swift lyrics and Shakespearean poems.
Below, I rounded up over a hundred love quotes that are perfect for everyone from your Grandma Carol to your long-distance boyfriend. (Pro tip: these messages are best delivered with a box of sustainable chocolates and a bouquet of fresh flowers!)
Love Quotes for Her
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
―Alfred Lord Tennyson
“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
“Love is a gift of one's innermost soul to another so both can be whole.” —Buddha
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” —Willa Cather
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” —Zora Neale Hurston
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
“She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same.” —Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“You are my sun, my moon and all my stars.” —E.E. Cummings
“I love you to the moon and back.” —Sam McBratney, Guess How Much I Love You
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” —Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” —Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Love Quotes for Him
“In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.” —Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
"True love is singing karaoke 'Under Pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part." —Mindy Kaling
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.” —Roger de Rabutin
“Passion makes the world go ’round. Love just makes it a safer place.” —Ice-T
“She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person.” —E. Leventhal
“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, “If Not For You”
“They say love is the best investment; the more you give, the more you get in return.” —Audrey Hepburn
“Any day spent with you is my favorite day.” —A.A. Milne
“You are the butter to my bread, and the breath to my life.” —Julia Child
“I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” —Notting Hill (1999)
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” —David Viscott
Short Love Quotes
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” —Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
“You have bewitched me, body and soul.” —Pride & Prejudice (2005)
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” —Victor Hugo
“I’d walk through fire for you.” —Harry Styles, “Adore You”
"To me you are perfect." —Love Actually (2003)
"You're my one in five billion." —The X-Files
“You are my greatest adventure.” —The Incredibles (2004)
“Each happy ending's a brand new beginning.” —Enchanted (2007)
“I think I’d miss you even if we never met.” — The Wedding Date (2005)
“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” —Walter Winchell
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” —Audrey Hepburn
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” —Hermann Hesse
“You are all of my today and all of my tomorrows.” —Leo Christopher
“Love is a song that never ends.” —Bambi (1942)
“I look at you, and I’m home.” —Finding Nemo (2003)
Cute Love Quotes
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” —Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." —J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“My world is a better place because of you.” —Celine Dion, “Because You Loved Me”
“If I had to pick one person to be in my corner, it’d be you. Every time.” —Emily Henry, Book Lovers
"Just in case you ever foolishly forget, I'm never not thinking of you." —Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” —Madonna
“Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.” —Torquato Tasso
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” —Mark Twain
“Love is a game that two can play and both win." —Eva Gabor
“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” —Rumi
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” —Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” —Oscar Wilde
Romantic Love Quotes
“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.” —The Princess Bride (1987)
“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.” —When Harry Met Sally (1989)
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” —Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“You are my end and my beginning. Even when I lose, I’m winning.” —John Legend, “All of Me”
“Take me to your heart, for it’s there that I belong.” —Elvis Presley, “Love Me Tender”
"Love is a quiet, reassuring, relaxing, pottering, pedantic, harmonious hum of a thing; something you can easily forget is there, even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall." —Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” —1 Corinthians 13:4-7
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” —Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” —Loretta Young
“When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.” —Taylor Swift
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” —Leo Tolstoy
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.” —Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“If I had to choose between breathing or loving you, I would say ‘I love you’ with my last breath.” —Shannon Dermott
Famous Love Quotes
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” —Voltaire
“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” —John Keats
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” —Janos Arany
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle
“Where there is love there is life.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.” —Virgil
“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.” —Pablo Neruda
“It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” ―Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” —Plato
“There is no remedy for love, but to love more.” —Henry David Thoreau
Taylor Swift Love Quotes
“I find myself running home to your sweet nothings.” —from “Sweet Nothing”
“I was trying to fly, but I couldn’t find wings. But you came along and you changed everything.” —from “Crazier”
“My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue. All’s well that ends well to end up with you.” —from “Lover”
“Every dead-end street led you straight to me.” —from “All Of The Girls You Loved Before”
“You kiss me and it stops time.” —from “Say Don’t Go”
“Once upon a time, the planets and the fates and all the stars aligned. You and I ended up in the same room at the same time.” —from “Mastermind”
“With you, I’d dance in a storm in my best dress, fearless.” —from “Fearless”
“You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.” —from “Mine”
Love Quotes for Friends
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” —Dr. Seuss
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” — Donna Roberts
“True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” —Nicole Richie
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” —Oscar Wilde
“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.” —Winnie the Pooh
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” —Chelsea Handler
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” —Thomas Aquinas
“I've had the time of my life fighting dragons with you.” —Taylor Swift
Love Quotes for Family
"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony." —Friedrich Nietzsche
"Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love." —Amalia G.
"Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life." —Lisa Weed
“Ohana means family; family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten.” —Lilo and Stitch (2002)
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” —Michael J. Fox
“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” —Anthony Liccione
“The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.” —Louis Zamperini
“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”― Robin Hobb
“Some people are worth melting for.” —Frozen (2013)
“I sustain myself with the love of family.”―Maya Angelou
Self Love Quotes
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” —Rupi Kaur
“If you want to impress someone, don’t be someone else, just be yourself.” —Selena Gomez
“Seek to be whole, not perfect.” —Oprah Winfrey
“Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, ’cause we were born this way.” —Lady Gaga
“Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.” —Beyoncé
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” —Lucille Ball
“If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?” —Duchess Meghan Markle
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” —Nora Ephron
“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does — that makes you a winner right here.” —Venus Williams
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” —Oscar Wilde
Originally Appeared on Teen Vogue
