88 Valentine's Day Quotes to Share With That Special Someone
Smack-dab in the middle of an otherwise dreary winter, there’s a holiday that’s so uplifting and heartwarming that it feels as if love is in the air everywhere. While Christmas and Thanksgiving are all about food and family, Valentine’s Day is a holiday when we focus first and foremost on the one that we love, whether it’s a boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband, partner, or another loved one. And one way to show them that you really care? Valentine’s Day quotes, and lots of ‘em.
There are so many ways to observe Valentine’s Day, whether it’s sharing a romantic meal, planning a creative activity, cozying up to a lovey-dovey movie, or giving a gift from the heart. But to really level things up and to show how much you care, pull out one of these 88 Valentine’s Day quotes. Write a few down on a piece of paper and slip it into their bag or lunch for the day. Add some to a card that they’ll display on their desk for months to come. Or personalize a gift with a quote, such as a photo album or piece of jewelry.
After you’ve put up the decorations and savored a dessert or two, it’s time to break out the Valentine’s Day quotes for the warmest and fuzziest holiday around.
Taylor Swift
“I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.”
Helen Keller
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.”
Audrey Hepburn
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
Andre Breton
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
Loretta Young
“Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.”
Franklin P. Jones
“Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
Ingrid Bergman
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
Voltaire
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
David Wilkerson
"Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
Reese Witherspoon
“You can always gain by giving love.”
Maya Angelou
“Love recognizes no barriers.”
Ann Landers
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
Albert Einstein
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
Lao Tzu
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Alfred Tennyson
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
Paulo Coelho, 'The Alchemist'
“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.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
Zane Grey
"Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."
Trent Shelton
"Your flaws are perfect for the heart that's meant to love you."
George Sand
"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
Jane Austen, 'Emma'
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
Seth Adam Smith
"We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm. Real love is about weathering the terms of life together."
Anonymous
"If someone cares about you, you won't ever have to wonder how they feel, they'll constantly remind you."
1 Corinthians 13:7
"Love never gives up."
Emily Brontë, 'Wuthering Heights'
"Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Paulo Coelho
"Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning."
Charles M. Schulz
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
A. A. Milne, 'Winnie the Pooh'
"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."
Dr. Seuss
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
Sarah Dessen, 'The Truth About Forever'
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
Elinor Glyn
"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."
Stephanie Perkins
"For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."
Sophocles
"One words frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
Nicholas Sparks, 'A Walk to Remember'
"Love is like the wind, you can't see it, but you can feel it."
Oscar Wilde
"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."
Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee"
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
John Green, 'The Fault in Our Stars'
"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."
Marilyn Monroe
"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
Katharine Hepburn
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything."
Harry Burns from 'When Harry Met Sally'
"I came here tonight because 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."
Judy Garland
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed but my soul."
Stephen Chbosky, 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'
"I just want you to know that you're very special… and the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has."
William Goldman, 'The Princess Bride'
"Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches."
John Updike
"We are most alive when we're in love."
Vincent van Gogh
"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence."
Victor Hugo
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
David Viscott
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
Barack Obama
"If you work through the tough times, the respect and love that you feel deepens."
Princess Diana
"I don't go by the rule book: I lead from the heart, not the head."
Ursula K. Le Guin, 'The Lathe of Heaven'
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."
C.S. Lewis, 'The Four Loves'
"To love at all is to be vulnerable."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Rumi
“Love is the whole thing. We are only the pieces."
Ed Sheeran, "Tenerife Sea"
"Cause all that you are is all that I'll ever need."
Gloria Steinem
"Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited."
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
"Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it."
Henry Ford
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.”
Dolly Parton, "Love Is Like A Butterfly"
“Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.”
Eden Abez, "Nature Boy"
"The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
William Arthur Ward
“Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.”
Leo Christopher
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet, I know I will tomorrow.”
Frank Sinatra
"A simple 'I love you' means more than money."
Hermann Hesse
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Mr. Darcy from 'Pride and Prejudice'
"You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.”
Dory from 'Finding Nemo'
“When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you, and I’m home.”
Mark Twain
“To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.”
Roy Croft
"I love you not because of who you are but because of who I am when I am with you."
Elbert Hubbard
"The love we give away is the only love we keep."
Elvis Presley, "Can't Help Falling in Love"
“Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship, that makes unhappy marriages."
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