115 Best Quotes About Love That Your Sweetheart Will Adore

Love: It’s that explicable feeling that both excites and puts you at ease. It’s the thing authors and poets have been writing about for centuries, yet there’s still more to say, even after hundreds of years. That’s why we’ve gathered over a hundred quotes about love from famous names such as Maya Angelou, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and even Dr. Seuss! They each offer a sweet perspective on love that you can carry with you, or share with your significant other to warm their heart on a special holiday — or just because!

These quotes about love make for the perfect addition to a Valentine’s Day card or anniversary caption, to celebrate a milestone moment in your relationship with your partner. If you’re looking for a quote to match a specific person or scenario, we’ve broken down our collection of heartfelt quotes into six categories to easily find what you’re looking for, such as famous love quotes, short love quotes, and love quotes for her.

If you adore love through and through and want more love messages to read through after this list, fret not! We have relationship quotes, love quotes from the Bible, and “I miss you” quotes on standby, ready for you to read through next!

• "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
  
• "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 patient, love is kind. It isn't jealous, it doesn't brag, it isn't arrogant, it isn't rude, it doesn't seek its own advantage, it isn't irritable, it doesn't keep a record of complaints, it isn't happy with injustice, but it is happy with the truth. Love puts up with all things, trusts in all things, hopes for all things, endures all things." — 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
• "The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." — Henry Miller
• "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." — Zora Neale Hurston
• "Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold." — Zelda Fitzgerald
• "I am grateful that you were born, that your love is mine, and our two lives are woven and welded together." — Mark Twain
• "Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time." — Maya Angelou
• "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." — Oprah Winfrey
• "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever." — Alfred Tennyson
• "The giving of love is an education in itself." — Eleanor Roosevelt
• "We are most alive when we're in love." — John Updike
  
  
  
  
  
• "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." — Dr. Seuss
• "Love does not dominate; it cultivates." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." — Aristotle
• "I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul." — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
• "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
• "I love you, not because of who you are but because of who I am when I am with you." — Roy Croft
• "If I know what love is, it is because of you." — Hermann Hesse
• "The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough." — Yoko Ono
• "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving." — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
• "We're 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

• "The love we give away is the only love we keep." — Elbert Hubbard
  
• "You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die." — Marc Norman, Shakespeare in Love
• "Love understands love; it needs no talk." — Frances Ridley Havergal
• "You make me want to be a better man." — Melvin Udall, As Good As It Gets
• "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
• "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
• "Love is not love until love’s vulnerable." – Theodore Roethke
• "Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity." — Unknown
• "The art of love is largely the art of persistence." — Albert Ellis
• "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." — Andre Breton, Mad Love
• "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
  
  
• "True love is putting someone else before yourself." — Olaf, Frozen
• "If the path be beautiful, let us not question where it leads." — Anatole France
• "There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love." — Adele, "Make You Feel My Love"
• "You are the best thing that’s ever been mine." — Taylor Swift, "Mine"
• "I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day." — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
• "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while." — William Goldman, The Princess Bride
• "I have not slept for fear I would wake to find all this a dream." — Prince Henry, Ever After: A Cinderella Story
• "I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes." — Unknown
• ​​"You are so beautiful, it hurts." — Rafe McCawley, Pearl Harbor
• "Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds." — Boyd K. Packer
• "A true love story never ends." — Unknown

• "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." — David Viscott
  
• "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." — Victor Hugo
  
• "Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you." — Loretta Young
• "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." — Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
• "Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around." — Bob Marley
• "Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life." — Leo Buscaglia
• "Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality." — Emily Dickinson, "Unable Are The Loved to Die"
• "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star." — Sinclair Lewis
• "Love’s gift cannot be given. It waits to be accepted." — Rabindranath Tagore
• "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop." — H. L. Mencken
• "Tell me who you love, and I’ll tell you who you are." — Unknown
• "There is no remedy for love but to love more." — Henry David Thoreau
  
  
  
• "Love is a friendship set to music." — Joseph Campbell
• "The best proof of love is trust." — Joyce Brothers
• "I like you very much. Just as you are." — Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
• "I love you more than my own skin." — Frida Kahlo
• "From the moment I saw her, I knew this one was worth the broken heart." ― Atticus
• "A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." — Max Muller
• "Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own." — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
• "Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred." — Barbara De Angelis
• "You can’t blame gravity for falling in love." — Albert Einstein
• "We are born of love; Love is our mother." — Rumi
• "Sometimes, the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

• "I will be a poet, and you will be poetry." — François Coppée
  
• "A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea." — Honore de Balzac
  
• "I love you right up to the moon — and back." — Sam McBratney, To the Moon and Back: Guess How Much I Love You
• "I do know some things. I know I love you. I know you love me." — Jon Snow, Game of Thrones
• "So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you." – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
• "You think you're one of millions, but you're one in a million to me." — Brad Paisley, "The World"
• "I could start a fire with what I feel for you." — Unknown
• "You give me the kind of feelings people write novels about." — Unknown
• "I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes." — Unknown
• "Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive. But most of all, loving you keeps me happy." — Unknown
• "Love is something eternal. The aspect may change but not the essence." – Vincent van Gogh
• "Woman thinks as she loves, man loves as she thinks." — Paolo Mantegazza
  
  
  
• "The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love." — Jean de la Bruyère
• "I look at the sky and stare at a star, but as beautiful as it is, it will never be like mine. You are mine, and I will never leave you again. I love you!" — Unknown
• "You are one of those people who meet when life decides to give you a gift." — Charles Dickens
• "Your eyes are cisterns that quench my torments." — Charles Baudelaire
• "I know no other reason to love you than to love you." — Fernando Pessoa
• "Your eyes make me shy." — Anaïs Nin
• "I love you the way a drowning man loves air, and it would destroy me to have you just a little." — Rae Carson, The Crown of Embers
• "Come live in my heart, and pay no rent." — Samuel Lover
• "Forever is never long enough when it’s spent with you." — Ralph
• "I will love you truly, forever and a day!" — William Rose Benét
• "Gifts are temporary and often forgotten; love is forever and always remembered." — Ken Poirot
• "I will love you all my life and when I die, I will still love you through eternity and beyond." — LeAnn Rimes

• "Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul that you never knew was missing." — Torquato Tasso
• "For you see, each day, I love you more. Today, more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." — Rosemonde Gerard
• "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 never claims, it ever gives. Love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself." — Mahatma Gandhi
• "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." — Mother Teresa
• "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." — Plato
• "When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you, and I'm home." — Dory, Finding Nemo
• "They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything." — Bil Keane
• "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
• "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin P. Jones
• "Sometimes, I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you." — Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
  
  
  
• "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
• "True love stories never have endings." — Richard Bach
• "She knew she loved him when 'home' went from being a place to being a person." – Eric Leventhal
• "The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind I was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." — Rumi
• "One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love!" — Sophocles
• "If I tell you I love you, can I keep you forever?" — Casper
• "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." — Lao Tzu
• "There is no limit to the power of loving." — John Morton
• "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn
• "Stolen kisses are always sweetest." — Leigh Hunt
• "Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." — Karl A. Menninger

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