Love in Words: 200+ Must-Read Love Quotes for Valentine’s Day
Love quotes have always been one of the best ways to express feelings within limited words. Valentine’s Day is the one special day of the year that everyone is expressing their love, all on the same day, to the most precious people in their lives. When you buy the perfect card and add the ideal Valentine Day quote or saying, it lets your special someone know just how much you care. They’ll be impressed when you take the time not only to spend money buying them expensive flowers, candy, or jewelry but actually using words to paint a picture of your undying devotion to them. Below are some of the best Valentine’s Day quotes and Valentine’s Day sayings to choose from:
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Heart to Heart: Inspiring Love Quotes for Valentine’s Day
- I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken – By and I’d instead remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. – By Margaret Mitchell
- I love you like crazy, baby ‘Cuz I’d go mad without you. – By Pixie Foudre
- Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. – By Zora Neale Hurston
- Silently you walked into my life and gave me strength. You stood by me through the darkness and guided me to the light. You are my beacon, and I love you so. My gratitude is yours. – By Shae Lynn
- To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – By David Viscott
- A baby is born with a need to be loved – By and never outgrows it. – By Frank A. Clark
- I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion- By I have to shudder at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion, And I could die for that; I could die for you. – By John Keats
- Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before. – By Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
- Better let my heart be without words than my words without a heart. – By John Bunyan
- The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. – By Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670
- I have found men who didn’t know how to kiss. I’ve always found time to teach them. – By Mae West
- To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. – By Lao Tzu
- As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change. . . I will always keep falling in love with you. – By Karen Clodfelter
- Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. – By Jean Anouilh
- Love is not singular except in syllable. – By Marvin Taylor
- You never lose by loving. – By You always lose by holding back. – By Barbara DeAngelis
- He who wants to do good knocks on the gate: he who loves finds the doors open. – By Rabindranath Tagore
- Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. – By Kahlil Gibran
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. – By James A. Baldwin
- Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. – By Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
- How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss and all was said. – By Victor Hugo
- Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence. – By Vincent van Gogh
- I never knew how to worship until I learned how to love.- By Henry Ward Beecher
- Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. – By Henry Van Dyke
- Take away love, and our earth is a tomb. – By Robert Browning
- The Eskimos had fifty- By two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. – By Margaret Atwood
- Love is not finding someone to live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without. – By Rafael Ortiz
- Love is what you’ve been through with somebody. – By James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960
- Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. – By Author Unknown
- Love, and a cough, cannot be hidden. – By George Herbert
- True love never dies, for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime, but lust just pushes away. – By Alicia Barnhart
- It is the special quality of love not to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing. – By Andre Gide
- We loved with a love that was more than love. – By Edgar Allan Poe
- Love is metaphysical gravity. – By R. Buckminster Fuller
- Remember, beneath every cynic, there lies a romantic and probably an injured one. – By Glenn Beck
- Love is my religion – I could die for it. – By John Keats
- Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. – By Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
- There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder. – By Charles Morgan
- Not loving is but a long dying. – By Wu Ti
- Sympathy constitutes friendship, but in love, there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. – By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. – By Author Unknown
- Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. – By Zelda Fitzgerald
- I’ve fallen in love many times… always with you. – By Author Unknown
- In women, everything is heart, even the head. – By J. P. Richter
- An old man in love is like a flower in winter. – Portuguese Proverb
- No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand desire, no matter how many times he has experienced it. – By Mignon McLaughlin
- Love cures people – By both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. – By Dr. Karl Menninger
- The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. – By Alexandra Penney
Forever Love: Timeless Quotes for Your Valentine’s Day Celebration
- Love is as much of an object as an obsession; everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never… never forget it. – By Curtis Judalet
- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. – By Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
- Don’t be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present. – By Sir John Lubbock
- Love doesn’t grow on trees like apples in Eden – it’s something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. – By Joyce Carol Oates
- At a touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. – By Plato
- We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. – By Marie E. Eschenbach
- Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. – By E. E. Cummings
- No cord or cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. – By Robert Burton
- And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. – By William Shakespeare
- The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. – By Anais Nin
- Loving is not just looking at each other; it’s looking in the same direction. – By Antoine de Saint- By Exupery, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939
- You have captured my soul in a cocoon of love. My heart will be forever yours. – By Shae Lynn
- Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart. – By Charles Dickens
- To love someone is nothing; to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything.
- The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. – By Author Unknown
- Valentine’s hearts beat more passionately than everyday hearts.
- You wondered how you’d make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the only thing you’re looking for is the one thing you can’t see. – By Vanessa Williams
- Love doesn’t sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. – By Ursula K. LeGuin
- Sweetheart, I’m holding you close in my arms and in my heart this Valentine’s Day and every day of the year.
Love in Motion: Moving Love Quotes for Valentine’s Day
- Love is like standing in wet cement; the longer you stay, the harder is to leave, and you never go without leaving your marks behind. – By Anonymous
- When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you. – By Oscar Wilde
- True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. – By Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- Love is like the dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. – Swedish Proverb
- True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall – but you are there to catch them. – By Anonymous
- Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. – By Thomas Robert Dewar
- If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you. – By Winnie the Pooh
- Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. – By Jules Renord
- The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one. – By Aristotle
- A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – By Ingrid Bergman
- The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. – By Jacques Benigne Bossuel
- Your words are my food, your breath my wine. – By You are everything to me. – By Sarah Bernhardt
- Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. – By Kay Knudsen
- On this romantic day, I want you to know that you’re the love of my life today, tomorrow, and always.
- Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. – By Victor Hugo
- Love is a game that two can play, and both win. – By Eva Gabor
- I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. – By Rabindranath Tagore
- I got a Valentine’s Day card from my girl. It said, ‘Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!’ Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself. – By Robert Orben
- A man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do everything to make himself envied. – By Mark Twain
- As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. – By William Shakespeare
- I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. – By Barbara Bush
- Love is many splendored things, and you are the definition of true splendor, my dearest love.
- To love another person is to see the face of God. – By Les Miserables
- The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them. – By Stephen King
- Love is the greatest refreshment in life. – By Pablo Picasso
- The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said to have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – By George Moore
- It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. – By John Bulwer
- Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – By Robert Frost
- Love one another, and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.
- All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – By Leo Tolstoy
- In real love, you want the other person’s good. In romantic love, you want the other person. – By Margaret C. Anderson
- There is always some madness in love. But there is also still some reason in madness. – By Friedrich Nietzsche
- Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. – By Percy Bysshe Shelley
- If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart; I’ll stay there forever. – By Winnie the Pooh
- The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. – By Eden Ahbez
- The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, is love. – By Victor Hugo
- To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with. – By Mark Twain
The Language of Love: Memorable Quotes for Your Valentine’s Day Celebration
- How precious you are in my life. I am forever grateful that God sent an angel to me. I love you most dearly. – By Shae Lynn
- To- By morrow is Saint Valentine’s day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine. – By William Shakespeare
- We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness. – By David Weatherford
- The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed. There is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even. – By Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If you love someone, set it free; if it comes back, it’s yours; if it doesn’t, then it never was.- By Richard Bach
- Valentine’s Day is when many married men are reminded what a bad shot Cupid really is.
- True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. – By Erich Segal
- Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. – By Ben Hecht
- Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. – By Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Love me, and the world is mine. – By David Reed
- Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. – By St. Augustine
- Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the recognition. – By Alexander Smith
- One makes mistakes; that is life. – By But it is never a mistake to have loved. – By Romain Rolland
- Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. – By Henri Frederic Amiel
- Come live in my heart and pay no rent. – By Samuel Lover
- Love is a perfume you cannot pour onto others without getting a few drops on yourself. – By Emerson
- A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. – By Oscar Wilde
- Are we not like two volumes of one book? – By Marceline Desbordes- By Valmore
- Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. – By Jerome K. Jerome
- The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. – By Lawrence Durrell
- Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. – By Ovid
- Love makes one calmer about things, and that way, one is fit for one’s work. – By Vincent Van Gogh
- A minimal degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. – By Stendhal
- Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be
- Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart but flows from one which is loved. – By Christopher Paul Rubero
- The things in common make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting. – By Todd Ruthman
- Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, the water of sincerity, and an air of passion.
- Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction. – By Antoine de Saint- By Exupery, Wind, Sand, and Stars
- Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times. – By Rita Rudner
- And when the future hinges on the next words, don’t let logic interfere; believe your heart instead. – By Philip Robinson
- I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. – By Author Unknown
- Kindness in words creates confidence, Kindness in thinking creates profoundness, Kindness in giving creates love. – By Lao-Tze
- To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. – By William M. Thackeray
- Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – By Lao Tzu
- What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. – By Pearl Bailey
- All you need is love. – By John Lennon
- Falling in love is so hard on the knees. – By Aerosmith
- A kiss is something you cannot give without taking and cannot take without giving. – By Anonymous
- In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. – By Mignon McLaughlin
- Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile. – By Sean Connery
- If I know what love is, it is because of you. – By Herman Hesse
- Candlelight, moonlight, starlight The brightest glow is from love light. – By Grey Livingston
- The arms of love encompass you with your present, past, and future; the arms of love gather you together. – By Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Today is Valentine’s Day – By or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day! – By Jay Leno
- We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. – By Luciano de Crescenzo
- If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. – By Claudia Gandhi
- Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – By William Shakespeare
- The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, delight, and ecstasy of it, you will discover that the world is transformed for you. – By J. Krishnamurti
- There is abundant testimony That if we choose love rather than self, We gain immeasurably – By Federico Fellini
- Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be. – By Robert Browning
Words of Wisdom: Timeless Love Quotes for Valentine’s Day
- True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. – By Francois de la Rochefoucauld
- ‘Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we arrive. – By Lord Byron
- And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. – By Erica Jong
- In a recent Valentine’s Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says, ” By oh, who cares? – By Amy Poehler
- If we judge love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship. – By La Rochefoucauld
- Love is the poetry of the senses. – By Honore de Balzac
- A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. – By Latin Proverb
- 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. – By Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
- When love is not madness, it is not loved.- By Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – By Aristotle
- Romance has been elegantly described as the offspring of love and fiction. – By Benjamin Disraeli
- There is no remedy for love but to love more. – By Thoreau
- Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January. – By Jim Gaffigan
- True love is like a fine wine; the older, the better. – By Fred Jacob
- To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. – By Karen Sunde
- If you live to be 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you. – By Winnie the Pooh
- If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. – By Michel de Montaigne
- The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence. – By Edward Thomas
- The only thing we never get enough of is love, and the only thing we never give enough of is love. – By Henry Miller
- Love is being stupid together. – By Paul Valery
Saying it with Love: Touching Quotes for Your Valentine’s Day Celebration
- You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. – By Author Unknown
- Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. – By Helen Rowland
- You have to walk carefully at the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. – By Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum
- A kiss is the shortest distance between two. – By Henny Youngman
- Love is blind. That is why he always proceeds by touch. – French Proverb
- Life is a flower of which love is the honey. – By Victor Hugo
- Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. – By Charles Dickens
- You have touched my heart so many ways with your gentle tenderness; I am lost forever in your love. – By Shae Lynn
- Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. – By Author Unknown
- What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. – By Author Unknown
- The very first person you think about when you wake up that’s who your heart belongs to.
- True love stories never have endings. – By Richard Bach
- Of all the forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. – By Bertrand Russell
- Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love is the soul of genius – By Mozart
- I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. – By J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. – By Marguerite de Valois
