In the journey of life, few things captivate our hearts, like the elusive charm of love. It’s a feeling that words often struggle to express, but when they do, they become a map to our souls, an echo of our deepest emotions.
As someone who appreciates romance and the beauty of language, it’s impossible not to be enchanted by romantic quotes. They offer to sweep us away on a poetic adventure, allowing us to feel the touch of passion and the whispers of affection. For those who hold romance as an art form, each quote is a new verse in an eternal ballad.
Love Quotes
- “The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of… We know the truth not only by the reason but by the heart.” ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
- “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
- “Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds or bends with the remover to remove” ― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
- “We loved with a love that was more than love.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
- “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” ― Pablo Neruda
- “Fermina, he said, 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 García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
- “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever” ― Nicholas Sparks
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” ― Alfred Tennyson
- “Storm clouds may gather, and stars may collide, but I love you until the end of time.” ― Moulin Rouge
- “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” ― Conan Doyle
- “You want to know who I’m in love with? Read the first word again.” – Unknown
- “My heart is, and always will be, yours.” ― Jane Austen
- “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.” ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
- “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” ― E.E. Cummings
- “I’m much more me when I’m with you.” ― Unknown
- “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
- “When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” ― Arrigo Boito
- I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” —Audrey Hepburn
- “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” ― Plato
- “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
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” ― David Viscott
- “Love is a great beautifier.” ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
- “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
- “She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person.” —E. Leventhal
- “Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” —Rosemonde Gerard
- “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
- “Your words are my food; your breath is my wine. You are everything to me.” ― Sarah Bernhardt
- “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” ― Pablo Neruda
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse
- “Love is a friendship set to music.” ― Joseph Campbell
- “Love is like the wind; you can’t see it, but you can feel it.” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
- “You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.” ― Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice screenplay
- “A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.” ― Beena Khan, The Weight on Skin
- “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” ― Judy Garland
- “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” ― G. K. Chesterton
- “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says, ‘I need you because I love you.'” ― Erich Fromm
- “To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you are the world.” – Bill Wilson
- “We loved with a love that was more than love.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
- “Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ― Aristotle
- “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” ― Herman Hesse
- “My soul and your soul are forever tangled.” — N.R. Hart
- “True love stories never have endings.” ― Richard Bach
- ” I need you like a heart needs a beat.” — One Republic
- “Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” ― Voltaire
- “Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” ― Madame De Stal
- “Love is friendship that has caught fire.” ― Ann Landers
- “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” ― Henry Miller
- “You are my today and all of my tomorrows.” ― Leo Christopher
- “I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” ― Ben Folds
- “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” ― Carl Sagan
- “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears; What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” ― Rumi
- “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” ― Leo Christopher
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
- “Love me—that’s all I ask of you.” — Phantom of the Opera
- “True love is inexhaustible. The more you give, the more you have.” — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” ― Victor Hugo
- “Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” ― Barbara De Angelis
- “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
- “I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it’s coming with all my heart.” ― Alice Walker
- “I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you.” ― Jamie McGuire
- “I’m not a religious person, but I do sometimes think God made you for me.” — Sally Rooney, Normal People
- “Just in case you ever foolishly forget, I’m never not thinking of you.” — Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries
- “I love you, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
- “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The only true language in the world is a kiss.” ― Musset
- “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” ― Thomas Merton, Love and Living
- “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner
- “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” —Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
- “When love is not madness, it is not love.” ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- “I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” — Nicholas Sparks
- “Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.” — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” ― Albert Einstein
- “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” ― T. Tolis
- “I saw that you were perfect, and I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.” — Angelita Lim
- “The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.” ― Anais Nin
- “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” ― Charles Dickens
- “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
- “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” ― Albert Einstein
- “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
- “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” ― Rumi
- “I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
- “Because of you, I can feel myself slowly, but surely, becoming the me I have always dreamed of being.” — Tyler Knott Gregson
- “I am yours. No refunds.” — Anita Bath
- “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” ― Henry David Thoreau
- “The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.” ― Lawrence Durrell
- “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” ― Erich Fromm
- “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” ― Lolita
- “When you love someone, you love the person as they are and not as you’d like them to be.” ― Leo Tolstoy
- “I never want to stop making memories with you.” ― Pierre Jeanty
- “You need to be kissed. Often. And by someone who knows how.” ― Gone with the Wind
- “Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.” – Inconnu
- “You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all other loves seem irrelevant.” ― Rupi Kaur
- “Love is not finding someone to live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without.” ― Rafael Ortiz
- “It’s like, in that moment, the whole universe existed just to bring us together.” ― Serendipity
- I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love. I vow to love you, and no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find a way back to each other. ― The Vow
- “Tonight, I will look up at the moon, and I will know that somewhere you are looking at it too.” ― Dear John
Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed this journey through 103 romantic quotes. It’s undeniable that love encompasses an array of emotions and experiences that deeply resonate within us.
These quotes illuminate the multifaceted nature of love, from tender moments of affection to enduring bonds that withstand the test of time.
They serve as timeless reminders of the profound impact it has on our lives, encouraging us to cherish the joy of new romance, honor the strength of enduring connections, and find solace in the enduring beauty of love lost.
As we carry these sentiments forward, let us continue to appreciate and celebrate the universal power of love in all its forms. Share your favorite love quote in the comments below.
Love the list. I will definitely come back to review!
These are a great collection of romantic quotes – good for our upcoming anniversary as well as occasions year round. My favourite quote was “Love is a CHOICE you make from moment to moment”. I’m a firm believer that everyday choices make all the difference!
That is a great quote! I love that one. Thank you for your comment.
“I’m much more me when I’m with you.”
so beautiful!
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What beautiful romantic love quotes, great timing for Valentine’s cards…thanks for sharing!
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Aw, such romantic love quotes! I`ll pick a couple of them and write a love letter to my husband for Valentine’s Day.
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These are beautiful quotes. I think they will come in handy with Valentines Day coming up in the next few days. Love them!
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I am such a sucker for romance and love quotes! These are really good 🥰