Life Family Relationships 100 Love Quotes to Help You Express How You Feel—for Valentine's Day and Beyond Need a little help expressing your romantic thoughts? Allow us to play Cyrano with the best love and Valentine's Day quotes to use for every romantic occasion. By Lauren Phillips Lauren Phillips Lauren is a former editor at Real Simple and currently serves as a senior digital editor for Better Homes & Gardens. Real Simple's Editorial Guidelines and Lisa Milbrand Lisa Milbrand Lisa Milbrand has more than 20 years of experience as a lifestyle writer and editor, writing thousands of articles on topics that help people live better and healthier lives for Real Simple, Parents, and dozens of other top publications. Real Simple's Editorial Guidelines Updated on January 04, 2024 Trending Videos Close this video player Photo: Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong Sometimes it's hard to find the right words to express how much you love your partner. Fortunately for you, there are a ton of wonderful love quotes and sayings to help—whether you're looking for deep, heartfelt love quotes from a famous writer, or a funny Valentine's Day quote from a comedian. If you need a quote about love to put in your Valentine's Day note, or to celebrate an anniversary, birthday, or another milestone, try one of these love quotes borrowed from the best writers, thinkers, books, and plays. The Most Romantic Ideas for Celebrating Valentine's Day at Home 01 of 100 "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)." Real Simple —E.E. Cummings, "I Carry Your Heart With Me" 02 of 100 “I’m in love. I was hit by cupid’s sparrow.” Corinne Mucha/Real Simple —Michael Scott, The Office 03 of 100 "Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt thy love." Real Simple —William Shakespeare, Hamlet 04 of 100 "Where there is love there is life.” Corinne Mucha/Real Simple —Mahatma Gandhi 05 of 100 "Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality." Real Simple —Emily Dickinson 06 of 100 "I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen." Real Simple —Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything 07 of 100 “Look into your eyes, and the sky’s the limit, I’m helpless! Down for the count and I’m drowning in ‘em…” Corinne Mucha/Real Simple —Lin Manuel Miranda, "Helpless," Hamilton 08 of 100 "Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” Corinne Mucha/Real Simple —Victor Hugo 09 of 100 "You have bewitched me body and soul and I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on." Real Simple —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice 10 of 100 “If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.” —Led Zeppelin, "Thank You" 11 of 100 "Cherish the thought of always having you here by my side. Oh baby, I cherish the joy you keep bringing into my life. I'm always singing it." Real Simple —Madonna, "Cherish" 12 of 100 "We loved with a love that was more than love." Corinne Mucha/Real Simple —Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee" 13 of 100 "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 14 of 100 "I feel like this is the beginning, though I've loved you for a million years." Real Simple —Stevie Wonder, "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" 15 of 100 "The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough." Real Simple —Yoko Ono 16 of 100 “Everywhere I’m looking now, I’m surrounded by your embrace. Baby, I can see your halo. You know you’re my saving grace." —Beyonce, "Halo" 17 of 100 “I would rather spend one lifetime with you, then face all the ages of this world alone.” Real Simple —J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings 18 of 100 "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you I could walk through my garden forever." Real Simple —Lord Alfred Tennyson 19 of 100 "Love is a two-way street constantly under construction." —Carroll Bryant 20 of 100 "Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again." Real Simple —The Cure, "Lovesong" 21 of 100 “Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.” Real Simple —Dolly Parton 22 of 100 “True love stories never have endings.” Real Simple —Richard Bach 23 of 100 “Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.” Real Simple —William Goldman, The Princess Bride 24 of 100 “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” —Audrey Hepburn 25 of 100 "The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved..." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables 26 of 100 "We accept the love we think we deserve." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower 27 of 100 “To meet a beautiful woman is one thing, but to meet your best friend in the most beautiful of women is something entirely apart.” —Simon Basset, Bridgerton 12 Romance Novels to Heat Up Your Life 28 of 100 "Personally, I love a great love story." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Meghan Markle 29 of 100 “To love is to burn, to be on fire.” —Jane Austen 30 of 100 "I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Marilyn Monroe 31 of 100 "If I could I would give you the world, but all I can do is just offer you my love.” —Prince, "Diamonds and Pearls" 32 of 100 "When one sees something especially wonderful, it's always nice to have someone to share it with." Real Simple – Mary Anne Schwalbe 33 of 100 "At last, my love has come along. My lonely days are over, and life is like a song." —Etta James, "At Last" 34 of 100 "When one loves, one does not calculate." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Saint Thérèse of Lisieux 35 of 100 "There is no remedy for love but to love more." —Henry David Thoreau 36 of 100 "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 37 of 100 "Take my hand, take my whole life, too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.” —Elvis Presley, "Can't Help Falling in Love With You" 38 of 100 "She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies; / And all that's best of dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes…" Real Simple – Lord Byron, "She Walks in Beauty" 39 of 100 "But true love is a durable fire / In the mind ever burning; / Never sick, never old, never dead, / From itself never turning." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Sir Walter Ralegh, "Walsinghame" 40 of 100 'I don’t care too much for money. Money can’t buy me love." —The Beatles, "Can't Buy Me Love" 41 of 100 "Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are." Real Simple – Will Ferrell 42 of 100 "'Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land 43 of 100 “We are made of particles that have existed since the moment the universe began. I like to think those atoms traveled 14 billion years through time and space to create us so we could be together and make each other whole.” —Leonard Hofstadter, Big Bang Theory 44 of 100 "Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Robert Browning 45 of 100 "Your love is better than ice cream, better than anything else that I’ve tried." —Sarah McLachlan, "Ice Cream" 46 of 100 "About you there is nothing I wouldn't want to know / With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler…" Real Simple – Peter Gizzi, "Lines Depicting Simple Happiness" 47 of 100 “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 48 of 100 "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Pearl Bailey 49 of 100 "And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me. And at every table, I'll save you a seat. Lover.” —Taylor Swift, "Lover" 50 of 100 "Familiar acts are beautiful through love." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Percy Bysshe Shelley 51 of 100 “Love is friendship on fire.” —Susan Sontag 52 of 100 "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." Real Simple – Nicole Krauss, The History of Love 53 of 100 "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 54 of 100 "There is a strong wall about me to protect me: / It is built of the words you have said to me…" Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Mary Carolyn Davies, "Love Song" 55 of 100 "I love you. I always have. I'll drift next to you every day as a ghost just to be with you." —Li Mu Bai, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 56 of 100 "...love is a great beautifier." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 57 of 100 "Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence." —Vincent Van Gogh 58 of 100 "As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars 59 of 100 "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched…but are felt in the heart." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Helen Keller 60 of 100 “With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.” —Ilsa, Casablanca 61 of 100 "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet 62 of 100 "You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down." —George Bailey, It's a Wonderful Life 63 of 100 "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." Real Simple – Joan Crawford 64 of 100 "Every time it rains, you’re here in my head, like the sun coming out. Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen. —Kate Bush, "Cloudbusting" 65 of 100 "I love you directly without problems or pride: / I love you like this because I don't know any other way to love…" – Pablo Neruda, translated by Mark Eisner, One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII 66 of 100 “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” —Charles Dickens, Great Expectations 67 of 100 "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Ella Wheeler Wilcox 68 of 100 "Love is, above all, the gift of oneself." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Jean Anouilh 69 of 100 “The things that you have done for me to help me, support me, surprise me, to make me happy, go above and beyond what any person deserves. You’re all I need. I love you and I like you.” —Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation 70 of 100 "Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, and wild leaps." Real Simple – Ian McEwan 71 of 100 "People do belong to each other, because that's the only chance that anyone's got for true happiness." —Breakfast at Tiffany's 72 of 100 "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach..." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)" 73 of 100 “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, When Harry Met Sally 74 of 100 "Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn't show up on X-rays, but you know it's there." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – George Burns 75 of 100 “Baby, I’m amazed at the way you love me all the time, and maybe I’m afraid of the way I love you.” —Paul McCartney, "Maybe I'm Amazed" 76 of 100 "You and I have so much love, that it burns like a fire, in which we bake a lump of clay, molded into a figure of you and a figure of me." —Guan Daosheng, "Married Love" 77 of 100 "I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you..." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Elizabeth Barrett Browning 78 of 100 "In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble. They’re only made of clay. But our love is here to stay." —Ira and George Gershwin, "Our Love Is Here to Stay" 79 of 100 "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam A.H.H." 25 Amazing Gift Ideas That Cost Next to Nothing 80 of 100 "He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights 81 of 100 "If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea, I’ll sail the world to find you. If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can’t see, I’ll be the light to guide you.” —Bruno Mars, "Count on Me" 82 of 100 "Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." Real Simple – Franklin P. Jones 83 of 100 "We go together like sound and sight, black and white, day and night. We go together like left and right. Oh, we go together.” —Vampire Weekend, "We Go Together" 84 of 100 "Though lovers be lost love shall not; / And death shall have no dominion." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Dylan Thomas, "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" 85 of 100 “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu 86 of 100 "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Mignon McLaughlin 87 of 100 “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning 88 of 100 "Clasp me close in your warm young arms, / While the pale stars shine above, / And we'll live our whole young lives away / In the joys of a living love…" Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "I Love You" 76 Positive Quotes to Brighten Your Day 89 of 100 "Cause all of me loves all of you. Love your curves and all your edges, all your perfect imperfections." —John Legend, "All of Me" 90 of 100 "Live in my house, I'll be your shelter. Just pay me back with 1,000 kisses. Be my lover, and I'll cover you." —"I'll Cover You," Rent 91 of 100 "To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – François Mauriac 92 of 100 "They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true.” —Edward Bloom, Big Fish 93 of 100 "To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others." Real Simple – Anne-Sophie Swetchine 94 of 100 "I love you in a really, really big way. Pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio above my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. So pick me, choose me, love me.“ —Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy 95 of 100 "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Charles M. Schultz 96 of 100 "Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby—awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess." —Lemony Snicket 97 of 100 "Never did I believe that there could be such utter happiness in this world, such a feeling of unity between two mortal beings. I love you—those three words have my life in them." Real Simple – Alix of Hesse 98 of 100 "I was standing.…You were there.…Two worlds collided.…And they could never, ever, tear us apart." —INXS, "Never Tear Us Apart" 99 of 100 "Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 100 of 100 "The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." —Satine and Christian, Moulin Rouge Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit