“We loved with a love that was more than love.” 💕
Love is… many things! It’s cute, it’s complicated, and it’s everything we need in this world. It may be hard to put the feeling as a whole into words, especially when it comes to a romantic sort of love. But if you find yourself in this predicament, do not worry—seriously! We’ve compiled a list of the best quotes about love that organize all of your thoughts, plus add something new to the table.
Sweet, charming, and, okay, a liiittle mushy, these sayings about love are sure to melt your heart (or your partner’s heart—say, during a thoughtful dinner for two?). There are dozens of funny, happy quotes here, like this hilarious line from Dolly Parton: “Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.” But there are also plenty of sentimental favorites that double as fabulous Valentine’s Day Instagram captions. Take, for instance, Harry Burns’ unforgettable line in When Harry Met Sally (one of our favorite Valentine’s Day movies): “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.” Is someone cutting onions in here?!
By the way, we’ve also got tons of beautiful Valentine’s Day quotes to read through for when the day comes. No matter what you’re looking for, you’ll find more than one way to say, “I love you.”
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David Viscott
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
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Zora Neale Hurston
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
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Scarlett Johansson
“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.”
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Roy Croft
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
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Mindy Kaling
“True love is singing karaoke Under Pressure and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.”
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Maya Angelou
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
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Willa Cather
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
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Katharine Hepburn
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.”
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Robert A. Heinlein, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
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Saint Ignatius
“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.”
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Elaine Davis
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.”
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Atticus
“Love her but leave her wild.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
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Jane Austen
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
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Helen Keller
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
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Loretta Young
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.”
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Taylor Swift
“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.”
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Nicholas Sparks, ‘A Walk to Remember’
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
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Buddha
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
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James Baldwin, ‘The Fire Next Time’
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
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John Krasinski
“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.”
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Edgar Allen Poe
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
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Julia Roberts
“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”
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Margaret Anderson
“In real love, you want the other person’s good. In romantic love, you want the other person.”
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Jodi Picoult
“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.”
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Eckhart Tolle
“To love is to recognize yourself in another.”
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Joe Manganiello
“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.”
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Eric Fromm
“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.”
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Helen Fisher
“There’s all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important.”
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Amy Poehler
“Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken.”
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Coretta Scott King
“Love is such a powerful force. It’s there for everyone to embrace—that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind.”
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Joyce Carol Oates
“In love there are two things: bodies and words.”
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Elizabeth Gilbert
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
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‘When Harry Met Sally’
“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.”
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Richard Bach
“True love stories never have endings.”
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Dolly Parton
“Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.”
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Bob Dylan
“There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love.”
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Rita Rudner
“I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
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‘Sixteen Candles’
“That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call them something else.”
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John Lennon
“Love is the flower; you’ve got to let it grow.”
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John Updike
“We are most alive when we’re in love.”
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Audrey Hepburn
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
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Rumi
“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”
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Madonna
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.”
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Erich Segal
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
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‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’
“I like you very much. Just as you are.”
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Frank Sinatra
“A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.”
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Dr. Seuss
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because the reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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Bryan Adams
“Everything I do, I do it for you.”
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George Sand
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
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‘The Notebook’
“I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.”
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Jane Austen
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
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Princess Diana
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”
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Blaise Pascal
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
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‘The Wedding Date’
“I think I’d miss you even if we never met.”
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Ann Landers
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
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‘The Fault in Our Stars’
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
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Lucille Ball
“Love yourself first and everything falls into line.”
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Victor Hugo
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
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Albert Einstein
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
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Lao Tzu
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
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Leo Christopher
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
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Reese Witherspoon
“You always gain by giving love.”
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Henry Miller
“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
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Meghan Markle
“Personally, I love a great love story.”
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Ed Sheeran
“All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.”
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Celine Dion
“Maybe I don’t know that much but I know this much is true: I was blessed because I was loved by you.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
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Agatha Christie
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
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Maya Angelou
“Love recognizes no barriers.”
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
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Aristotle
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
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