When you fall in love with someone, you just want to express how much you love them and make them feel loved. But sometimes, a simple ‘I Love You’ is just not good enough to truly express your love for them.
We have compiled over 280 love quotes to help you express your true feelings. No matter your relationship situation, these quotes will help you pour your heart out and let your partner/spouse know just how much you love them.
280+ Love Quotes
A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight. - Edward VIII
A life lived in love will never be dull. - Leo Buscaglia
A life without love is like a year without summer. - Swedish Proverb
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens
A simple 'I love you' means more than money. - Frank Sinatra
A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, and will be there for you forever, no matter what. - P.S. I Love You
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin
A true love story never ends. - Unknown
All that you are is all that I’ll ever need. - Ed Sheeran
All you need is love. - The Beatles
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. - Charles M. Schulz
All’s fair in love and basketball. - Quincy, Love and Basketball
And in her smile, I see something more beautiful than the stars. - Across the Universe
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. - The Holy Bible: King James Version
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
Because of you, I can feel myself slowly, but surely, becoming the me I have always dreamed of being. - Tyler Knott Gregson
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu
Come near now, and kiss me. - Genesis 27:26
Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken. - Amy Poehler
Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. - The Princess Bride
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. - Rosemonde Gerard
Every time I see you, I fall in love all over again. - Unknown
Everything I do, I do it for you. - Bryan Adams
First and foremost, self-love, and then give love away. - Katy Perry
For thousands of nights, I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do. - Again the Magic
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. - Maya Angelou
He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. - Emily Bronte
I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. - Song of Solomon 6:3
I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. - Nicholas Sparks
I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had. - The Notebook
I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day. - Jodi Picoult
I can’t see anything I don’t like about you. - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I don’t wanna close my eyes, I don’t wanna fall asleep, cuz I’d miss you babe and I don’t wanna miss a thing. - Aerosmith
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more. - Christina Perri
I have found the one whom my soul loves. - Song of Solomon 3:4
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. - Mother Teresa
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I like you very much. Just as you are. - Bridget Jones's Diary
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
I love being one half of a romantic couple. - Julianna Margulies
I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. - When Harry Met Sally
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. - Dorothy L. Sayers
I love you and that’s the beginning and end of everything. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. - The Alchemist
I love you begins by I, but it ends up by you. - Charles de Leusse
I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, and all that you will be. - Unknown
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you. - Ben Folds
I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you. - Roy Croft
I love you. You… you complete me. - Jerry Maguire
I need you like a heart needs a beat. - One Republic
I never want to stop making memories with you. - Pierre Jeanty
I promise to love you forever, every single day of forever. - Twilight
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
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. - Leo Christopher
I think I'd miss you even if we never met. - The Wedding Date
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. - Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly. - You've Got Mail
I wasn’t expecting you. I didn’t think that we would end up together. The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you. I’ve never been seen so completely, loved so passionately, and protected so fiercely. - This Is Us
I will never stop trying. Because when you find the one... you never give up. - Crazy, Stupid, Love
I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer. - Unknown
I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. - J.R.R. Tolkien
I’d never lived before your love. - Kelly Clarkson
I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships. - Scarlett Johansson
I’ve been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason ... is you. - Julie James
I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you. - Zelda Fitzgerald
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever. - Alfred Tennyson
If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you. - DeAnna Anderson
If I know what love is, it is because of you. - Hermann Hesse
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. - Princess Diana
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. - Winnie the Pooh
If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets. - Haruki Murakami
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
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. - Janos Arany
In love, there are two things: bodies and words. - Joyce Carol Oates
In real love, you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person. - Margaret Anderson
In the end, love is not only made up of fireworks and magic. It's built on the small, ordinary moments too. - Unknown
In vain have I 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. - Mr. Darcy, 'Pride and Prejudice'
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. - Agatha Christie
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. - Vladimir Nabokov
It’s always better when we’re together. - Jack Johnson
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. - Bertrand Russell
Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away. - Hitch
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo
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
Love cures people- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. - Karl A. Menninger
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint- Exupery
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones
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 her but leave her wild. - Atticus
Love is a better teacher than duty. - Albert Einstein
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. - Barbara De Angelis
Love is a fabric that nature wove and fantasy embroidered. - Voltaire
Love is a force more formidable than any other. - Barbara de Angelis
Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell
Love is a game that two can play and both can win. - Eva Gabor
Love is a juice with many tastes. Some bitter, others sweet. A wine which has few vineyards. - Justice, Poetic Justice
Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by the heart. - Unknown
Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. - John Lennon
Love is always bestowed as a gift- freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. - Leo Buscaglia
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous... - 1 Corinthians 13:4- 7
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. - George Jean Nathan
Love is an endless act of forgiveness. - Beyoncé
Love is an endless journey; it has no beginning and no end. - Rumi
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. - Rabindranath Tagore
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost
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
Love is being stupid together. - Paul Valery
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing, and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. - Ann Landers
Love is like a beautiful flower that I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. - Helen Keller
Love is like a flower; it grows in strength and beauty when tended to with care. - Unknown
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. - Bruce Lee
Love is like a river, never ending as it flows, but gets greater with time. - Unknown
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. - Maya Angelou
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. - Dorothy Parker
Love is like the ocean. It's calm and reassuring, it rages in a storm. - Unknown
Love is like the sun: it has its inner energy source that shines on you, giving you light warmth, and life. - Debasish Mridha
Love is like the sun: it shines on everyone. - Unknown
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. - Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. - Washington Irving
Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count. - Michelle St. Amand
Love is not about how many days, weeks, or months you’ve been together; it’s all about how much you love each other every day. - Unknown
Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but how much you can prove that it's true. - Unknown
Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. - Unknown
Love is not finding someone to live with. It's finding someone you can't live without. - Rafael Ortiz
Love is not something you feel. It's something you do. - David Wilkerson
Love is not something you find. Love is something that finds you. - Loretta Young
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses. - Lao Tzu
Love is shown more in deeds than in words. - Saint Ignatius
Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you. - Dolly Parton
Love is such a powerful force. It’s there for everyone to embrace- that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind... - Coretta Scott King
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 the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow. - John Lennon
Love is the beauty of the soul. - Saint Augustine
Love is the bridge between two hearts. - Unknown
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; and effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. - Madame de Stael
Love is the expansion of two natures in such a fashion that each includes the other, and each is enriched by the other. - Felix Adler
Love is the flower; you've got to let it grow. - John Lennon
Love is the greatest refreshment in life. - Pablo Picasso
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods. - Plato
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. - Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the poetry of the senses. - Honore de Balzac
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star. - E.E. Cummings
Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces. - Rumi
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. - André Breton
Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy. - Unknown
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism... - Eric Fromm
Love loves to love love. - James Joyce
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston
Love recognizes no barriers. - Maya Angelou
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. - James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Love was made for me and you. - Nat King Cole
Love yourself first and everything falls into line. - Lucille Ball
Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries. - Truman Capote
Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will. - Elaine Davis
Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity. - Truth Devour
Maybe I don’t know that much but I know this much is true, I was blessed because I was loved by you. - Celine Dion
My heart is and always will be yours. - Jane Austen
My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding. - Christina White
My soul and your soul are forever tangled. - N.R. Hart
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. - Oscar Wilde
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. - Zelda Fitzgerald
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. - Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Oh, how a quiet love can drown out every fear. - Jessica Katoff
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. - The History Of Love
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. - Bob Marley
Our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it. - A Walk to Remember
Passion makes the world go 'round. Love just makes it a safer place. - Ice- T
Personally, I love a great love story. - Meghan Markle
Romance is the glamour that turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. - Elinor Glyn
Romance is thinking about your significant other when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. - Nicholas Sparks
Some love stories aren't epic novels. Some are short stories, but that doesn't make them any less filled with love. - Sex and the City
Sometimes all you need is a hug from the right person and all your stress will melt away. - Unknown
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. - David Byrne
Take love, multiply it by infinity, and take it to the depths of forever, and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you. - Meet Joe Black
Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you. - Elvis Presley
That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call them something else. - Sixteen Candles
The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
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 best love is the one that makes you a better person without changing you into someone other than yourself. - Unknown
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. - Audrey Hepburn
The giving of love is an education in itself. - Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. - William Saroyan
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. - Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return. - Nat King Cole
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. - Blaise Pascal
The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that. - Woody Allen
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. - Henry Miller
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain... - Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. - Marilyn Monroe
The smile is the beginning of love. - Mother Teresa
The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone. - Jane Austen
The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun. - Charles de Leusse
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless. - Leo Christopher
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment. - Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. - Jane Austen
There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. - George Sand
There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important... - Helen Fisher
There's nothing that I wouldn't do to make you feel my love. - Bob Dylan
Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive. - Unknown
Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. - Madonna
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. - Elizabeth Gilbert
To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed. - Valerie Lombardo
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. - Pablo Neruda
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott
To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything. - T. Tolis
To love is to burn, to be on fire. - Jane Austen
To love is to recognize yourself in another. - Eckhart Tolle
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. - François Mauriac
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds. - Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions
To me, you are perfect. - Love Actually
To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world. - Unknown
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. - Erich Segal
True love is putting someone else before yourself. - Frozen
True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. - Nicholas Sparks
True love is singing karaoke Under Pressure and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part. - Mindy Kaling
True love stories never have endings. - Richard Bach
Two are better than one. - Ecclesiastes 4:9
We accept the love we think we deserve. - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
We are most alive when we're in love. - John Updike
We love the things we love for what they are. - Robert Frost
We loved with a love that was more than love. - Edgar Allen Poe
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. - Sinclair Lewis
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. - Helen Keller
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. - Emily Brontë
When I look into your eyes, I know I have found the mirror of my soul. - Joey W. Hill
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. - Arrigo Boito
When I see your face, there’s not a thing that I would change, ’cause you’re amazing - just the way you are. - Bruno Mars
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
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 find that one that's right for you, you feel like they were put there for you, you never want to be apart. - Joe Manganiello
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. - Leo Tolstoy
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
When you're lucky enough to meet your one person, then life takes a turn for the best. It can't get better than that. - John Krasinski
Where there is great love, there are always miracles. - Willa Cather
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
You always gain by giving love. - Reese Witherspoon
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. - E. E. Cummings
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine. - Taylor Swift
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning. - Unknown
You are, and always have been, my dream.- Nicholas Sparks
You can't blame gravity for falling in love. - Albert Einstein
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
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
You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry someone you cannot live without. - Unknown
You found parts of me I didn't know existed, and in you, I found a love I no longer believed was real. - Unknown
You had me at hello. - Jerry Maguire
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
You know it’s true. Everything I do, I do it for you. - Bryan Adams
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - Dr. Seuss
You make me want to be a better man. - As Good As It Gets
You should be kissed and often and by someone who knows how. - Gone With the Wind
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha
You’re always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I’m thinking of you. - Dierks Bentley
You’re nothing short of my everything. - Ralph Block
You’re the closest to heaven, that I’ll ever be. - Goo Goo Dolls
Your hand touching mine. This is how galaxies collide. - Sanober Khan
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. - Rumi
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. - Sarah Bernhardt
Let love rule. - Lenny Kravitz
