Say “I love you” with these sweet, romantic love quotes and sayings.
Depending on who you ask, it’s a many-splendored thing or it’s all you need — and sometimes it’s even a battlefield. But regardless of how you define it, love can often be hard to express or put into words, whether you’re looking for a sweet Valentine’s Day message or a creative way to say “I love you” to a boyfriend, girlfriend, or any other significant other in your life. Fortunately, though we can always turn to the world’s most famous writers, musicians, and poets for some eloquent take on the subject — which, of course, leads us to the best love quotes of all time.
Best Love Quotes of all time:-
1. “I can’t promise to fix all your problems, but I can promise you won’t have to face them all alone.”
2. “There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table.'” — Tom Hanks
3. “I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, “Lord of The Rings”
4. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Herman Hesse, “Narcissus and Goldmund”
5. “Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” — Anna (Julia Roberts) to William (Hugh Grant) in “Notting Hill”
6. “Saw your worst and I stayed.”
7. “The first time you touched me, I knew I was born to be yours.”
8. “You’re pretty much my most favorite of all time in the history of ever.”
9. “I remember the first day I ever looked into your eyes and felt my entire world flip.”
10. “I looked at him as a friend until I realized I loved him.”
11. “I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you.”
12. “If I did anything right in my life, it was when I gave my heart to you.”
13. “It’s not being in love that makes me happy. It is the person that I am in love with that does.”
Love Quotes for Her
14. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” — Nicholas Sparks, “The Notebook”
15. “I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.”
16. “Maybe the only vow we ever need to offer the one we love is this: I will never, not for a sliver of a second, make you feel alone.”
17. “If I could give you one thing in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes, only then would you realize how special you are to me.”
18. “Love you more.”
19. “Darling, you are all I ever wanted love to be.”
20. “You are what I need in my life. You are my one.”
21. “I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” — Ben Folds, “The Luckiest”
22. “I just wanna see you. Hold you. Hug you. Touch you. Kiss you. Cuddle with you. Love you.”
23. “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” — Leo Christopher
24. “When I say I love you more, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most.”
25. “She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person.” — E. Leventhal
26. “If you only knew how much those little moments with you mattered to me.”
27. “I fall more deeply in love with you, every single day.”
Sad Love Quotes
28. “However far away, I will always love you. However long I stay, I will always love you. Whatever words I say, I will always love you. I will always love you.” — The Cure, “Lovesong”
29. “It’s a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that’s been important to you. It’s actually not all that pleasurable. I don’t know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can’t bear an hour without somebody’s company.” — Colin Firth
30. “His love roared louder than her demons.”
31. “Love makes all the negative thoughts disappear.”
32. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” — Bette Davis
33. “Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” ― Paulo Coelho
34. “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” ― Pablo Neruda
35. “I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer.”
36. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” — Julia Roberts
37. “And when I loved you, I realized, I have never truly loved anyone. I realized, I never will truly love anyone the way I loved you.”
38. “I wish I knew how to quit you.” — “Brokeback Mountain”
39. “I wish I had done everything on earth with you.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby”
40. “Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.” — Stephen R. Covey
41. “It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” — Miguel de Unamuno
42. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” — Faraaz Kazi
43. “It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.”— Ella Harper
44. “When you think you’re first falling in love, just then you realize you’re falling out of love.” — David Grayson
45. “Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially, it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes off and everything is darker than ever and all you are left with is the…burn!” — Syed Arshad
Cute Love Quotes
46. “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, “Winnie the Pooh”
a.a. milne Love quotes
47. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
48. “Love starts as a feeling, but to continue is a choice. And I find myself choosing you, more and more every day.” — Justin Wetch, “Bending The Universe”
49. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” ― Plato
50. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.” — “Moulin Rouge”
51. “Once I knew you I never wanted to know anyone else.” — Leo Christopher
52. “I love you past the moon and miss you beyond the stars.” — J.M. Storm
53. “I’ll never have enough of your lips.”
54. “You and me together, through the days and nights. I don’t worry ’cause everything’s gonna be alright.” — Alicia Keys, “No One”
55. “And when you’re needing your space to do some navigating, I’ll be here patiently waiting to see what you find.” — Jason Mraz, “I Won’t Give Up”
56. “In French, you don’t say ‘I miss you.’ You say ‘Tu me manques’, which means ‘you are missing from me.’ I love that.”
57. “Because I could watch you for a single minute and find a thousand things that I love about you.”
58. “I still haven’t figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do.” — William C. Hannan
59. “I was, and I remain, utterly and completely and totally in love with you.” — J.R. Ward
60. “I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.”
61. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
62. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
63. “We are most alive when we’re in love.” — John Updike
64. “I realized I was thinking of you, and I began to wonder how long you’d been on my mind. Then it occurred to me: Since I met you, you’ve never left.”
65. “I hope you know that every time I tell you to get home safe, stay warm, have a good day, or sleep well, what I am really saying is I love you. I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words’ meanings.”
66. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
67. “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” — T. Tolis
68. “There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.” — Leo Christopher
69. “We fight, we kiss, we hug, we text, we talk, we argue, we laugh, we smile, we love… That’s us.”
70. “You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant.” — Rupi Kaur, “Milk and Honey”
Love Yourself Quotes
71. “If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.”
72. “In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.” — Theodor Reik
73. “Someone who really loves you sees what a mess you can be, how moody you can get, how hard you are to handle, but still wants you.”
74. “Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.”
75. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserves your love and affection.” — Buddha
76. “Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like your love yourself. Love yourself.”
77. “Regardless of how anyone else feels about me, I am going to choose to love myself today.”
78. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
Short Love Quotes
79. “Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
80. “I’m much more me when I’m with you.”
81. “I never want to stop making memories with you.” — Pierre Jeanty
82. “Your voice is my favorite sound.”
83. “You’re all my heart ever talks about.”
84. “Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.”
85. “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — Arthur Conan Doyle, “The White Company”
86. “We are shaped and fashioned by those we love.” — Johann Wolfgang von Geothe
87. “We are asleep until we fall in love!” — Leo Tolstoy, “War and Peace”
88. “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”
89. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee”
90. “We love the things we love for what they are.” — Robert Frost
91. “I will never stop trying. Because when you find the one, you never give up.” — “Crazy, Stupid, Love”
92. “And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God.” — Victor Hugo, “Les Miserables”
93. “You can’t rush something you want to last forever.”
94. “P.S. I love you.” — Cecelia Ahern
95. “When love is not madness it is not love.” ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca
96. “How strange to dream of you even when I am wide awake.” — David Jones
97. “It was always you.” — Maroon 5, “It Was Always You”
Inspirational Love Quotes
98. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” ― Sophocles
99. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo
100. “All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.” — Leo Tolstoy
101. “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” — Lord Byron
102. “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft
103. “Sometimes, someone comes into your life, so unexpectedly, takes your heart by surprise, and changes your life forever.”
104. “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”
105. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return.” — Nat King Cole, “Nature Boy”
106. “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” — The Beatles, “The End”
107. “Before the day I met you, life was so unkind. But you’re the key to my peace of mind.” — Aretha Franklin, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”
108. “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
109. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
110. “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
111. “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’” — Erich Fromm
112. “Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” — James Thurber
113. “Fortune and love favor the brave.” — Ovid
114. “You always gain from giving love.”—Reese Witherspoon
115. “It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.” — Bertrand Russell
116. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” — William W. Purkey
117. “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” — Carl Sagan
118. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
119. “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” — David Wilkerson
120. “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
121. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
122. “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Pablo Coelho
123. “We were together. I forget the rest.” — Walt Whitman
124. “You give me the most gorgeous sleep that I’ve ever had.” — No Doubt, “Underneath It All”
125. “I am totally completely eye-popping seriously groundbreaking passionately deliciously in love with you.”
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Funny Love Quotes
126. “I love you, idiot.” — “Gilmore Girls”
127. “I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner
128. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles Schulz
129. “If you are lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.”
130. “Real love doesn’t meet you at your best. It meets you in your mess.”
131. “I love you. You annoy me more than I ever thought possible. But I want to spend every irritating minute with you.”
132. “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” — H. L. Mencken
133. “You are my favorite notification.”
Famous Love Quotes
134. “And suddenly all the love songs were about you.”
135. “Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.” — J.D. Salinger
136. “Listen to me, mister. You’re my knight in shining armor. Don’t you forget it.” — “On Golden Pond”
137. “I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
138. “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.” — Harry (Billy Crystal) in “When Harry Met Sally”
139. “You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.” — Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice”
140. “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” — Nicholas Sparks, “The Notebook”
141. “You had me at hello.” — “Jerry Maguire”
142. “As you wish.” — “The Princess Bride”
143. “It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.” — John Green, “The Fault In Our Stars”
144. “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” — William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
145. “All of me loves all of you.” — John Legend, “All of Me”
146. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
147. “I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.” — Ian McEwan, “Atonement”
148. “In vain I have 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”
149. “You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” — Margaret Mitchell, “Gone with the Wind”
150. “I love that you are my person and I am yours, that whatever door we come to, we will open it together.” — A.R. Asher
151. “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” — Henry Miller
152. “I need you like a heart needs a beat.” – Unknown
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