100 amazing love quotes to share with your person

So much more than just an emotion, love is a driving force.

And because there’s nothing more worthy to wax poetic on, we’ve created a highlight reel of love quotes to answer the door when the warm and fuzzies come knocking.  

After all, love makes the world go round, and that feeling can cause total strangers to transform into the most important people in each others’ lives. Beyond romantic love, it’s what can also tightly knit friends together or shape us at our core as it relates to our family or faith. 

Spanning centuries and modes of expression, may these one liners, meditations, song lyrics and memorable movie quotes inspire you to cherish your beloved. Use them to keep hope alive for the one you’re waiting patiently for, or to spice up a surprise sticky note for your sweetheart. 

One thing’s for sure: Cupid has nothing on these romantic quips.

Heartwarming love quotes

• "love is a place / & through this place of / love move / (with brightness of peace) / all places" — E.E. Cummings, “love is a place”
• "Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails." — 1 Corinthians 13 6-8
• "One hour of right down love is worth an age of dully living on." — Aphra Benn, "The Rover"
• "Cause all of me / Loves all of you / Love your curves and all your edges / All your perfect imperfections." — John Legend, “All of Me”
• "Give me your answer, fill in a form / Mine for evermore / Will you still need me, will you still feed me / When I’m sixty-four?" — The Beatles, “When I’m Sixty-Four”
• "I tell you this / to break your heart, / by which I mean only / that it break open and never close again / to the rest of the world." — Mary Oliver, “Lead”
• "I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump." — Zora Neale Hurston, “Dust Tracks on a Road”
• "Come along with me to my little corner of the world / Dream a little dream in my little corner of the world / You’ll soon forget that there’s any other place / Tonight, my love, we’ll share a sweet embrace." — Bob Hilliard, “My Little Corner of the World”
• All love that has not friendship for its base, / Is like a mansion built upon the sand. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Upon the Sand”
• "Can I go where you go? / Can we always be this close, forever and ever? — Taylor Swift, “Lover”

• "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 Burns, “When Harry Met Sally”
• "Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident." ― Louis de Bernières, "Corelli’s Mandolin"
• I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love, / except in this form in which I am not nor are you, / so close that your hand upon my chest is mine, / so close that your eyes close with my dreams." — Pablo Neruda, "Sonnet XVII"
• "He was part of my dream of course — but then I was part of his dream, too." — Lewis Carroll, "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"
• "Love, leave me like the light, / The gently passing day; / We would not know, but for the night, / When it has slipped away. / Go quietly; a dream, / When done, should leave no trace / That it has lived, except a gleam / Across the dreamer’s face.” ― Countee Cullen, “If You Should Go”
• "I found you and I loved you, / And all the world was mine." — Paul Laurence Dunbar, “A Golden Day"
• "Love is the one experience of the human condition that allows us to feel unequivocally, beautifully and deeply that our true condition is not isolation but union." — Daphne Rose Kingma, "A Lifetime of Love"
• It has made me better, loving you…it has made me wiser, and easier, and — I won’t pretend to deny — brighter and nicer and even stronger." — Henry James, "Portrait of a Lady"
• "When my soul was in the lost and found / You came along to claim it." — Aretha Franklin, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”
• "If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets." — Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"

• "But I love your feet / only because they walked upon the earth and upon / the wind and upon the waters, / until they found me." — Pablo Neruda, “Your Feet”
• "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved." — bell hooks, "All About Love: New Visions"
• "But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest." — Eleanor Farjeon, "Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard"
• "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." — Song of Solomon 8:7
• "the leaves believe / such letting go is love / such love is faith / such faith is grace / such grace is God. / i agree with the leaves." — Lucille Clifton, “the lesson of the falling leaves”
• "Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service." — William Shakespeare, "The Tempest"
• "This is true love. You think this happens every day?"— Westley, "The Princess Bride"
• "I am amazed by peace / It is this possibility of you / asleep / And breathing in the quiet air." — June Jordan, “Poem for My Love”
• "Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?" — James Baldwin, "Giovanni’s Room"

• "Pass this love on, he’d say. It knows how to bend and will never break. It’s the only thing with a give and take. The more it’s used the more it makes." — Joy Harjo, "Poet Warrior: A Memoir"
• "I love you more than one more day." — Joan Didion, "The Year of Magical Thinking"
• "The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that." — Cheryl Strayed, "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar"
• "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, “Just the Way You Are”
• "Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity." — Helen Hayes
• "Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another." — Jane Austen, "Emma"
• "I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river; to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything." — Virginia Woolf, "Night & Day"
• "You’ve touched me without even touching me." — Rupi Kaur, "Milk and Honey"
• “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Tennyson
• "You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful." — John Green, "The Fault In Our Stars"

• "The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are." — Oprah Winfrey
• "Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time." — Maya Angelou
• "Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• "We loved with a love that was more than love." — Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee” 
• "I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself." — Erich Fromm
• "Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you." — Eckhart Tolle, "The Power of Now"
• "A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake." — Elizabeth Gilbert, "Eat, Pray, Love"
• "If you have no intention of loving or being loved, then the whole journey is pointless." — Kate DiCamillo, "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane"
• "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze." — Elinor Glyn
• "The last thing to age on somebody is their heart." — Rocky in "Rocky Balboa"

• "Night falls like people into love / We generate our own light / To compensate." — Ani DiFranco, “Angry Anymore”
• "But most of all, love needs love, lots of it. And in return, love loves you and never stops." — Taylor Mali, “How Falling In Love Is Like Owning a Dog”
• "How can love’s spaciousness / be conveyed in the narrow confines of one syllable?" —  Diane Ackerman, from "A History of Love"
• "The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love." — John Muir
• "All days are nights to see till I see thee, / And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me." — William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 43"
• "For even if I’m far away / I hold you in my heart / I sing a secret song to you / Each night we are apart." — “Remember Me,” from "Coco"
• "I hope you don’t mind / I hope you don’t mind / That I put down in the words / How wonderful life is while you’re in the world." — Elton John, “Your Song”
• "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more." — Jane Austen, "Emma"
• "Hit me like a ray of sun/ Burning through my darkest night / You’re the only one that I want / Think I’m addicted to your light." — Beyoncé, “Halo”
• "You’ve got to laugh a little, cry a little, / until the clouds roll by a little. / That’s the story of, that’s the glory of love." — Billy Hill, “The Glory of Love”

• "He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." — Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"
• "Love is a form of heroism that never goes out of date." — Oscar Wilde
• “Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”—C.S. Lewis
• “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”— Henry David Thoreau
• “You look like the rest of my life.”— Beau Taplin 
• "Don’t save up love like you’re gonna retire on it. Give it away like you’re made of it.”—Bob Goff
• “Love is friendship that has caught fire.”—Ann Landers
• “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard, and we’re gonna have to work at this every day. But I wanna do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever. You and me. Every day.”— Nicholas Sparks, “The Notebook”
• “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”— Franklin P. Jones
• “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”— Dr. Seuss

• “The best time to love with your whole heart is always now, in this moment, because no breath beyond the current is promised.”— Fawn Weaver
• “Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.” — John Green, “An Abundance of Katherines”
• “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” — Romans 12:9
• “Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell
• “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” — Andre Maurois
• “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 makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” — Zora Neale Hurston
• “Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.” — Barbara de Angelis
• “You don’t fall into love. You commit to it. Love says, ‘I will be there no matter what.’”— Tim Keller
• “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”— Rumi

• “The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.”— Parker J. Palmer
• “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” — Willa Cather
• "Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved." — Oscar Wilde
• “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
• “Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.”— Theodore Roethke
• “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”— 1 Peter 4:8
• “Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time and distance. They only know it feels right to be with one another.” — Lang Leav
• “Thank you for loving me when I still tasted of heartache and war.” — Nikita Gill
• “It was instinctive, the way I fell for you. Like an effortless intake of breath.” — Josh Walker
• “My heart is so full of you I can hardly call it my own.”— Liana Rădulescu

• “We never realize how frozen we are until someone starts to melt our ice." — Bridgett Devoue
• “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"
• “I think I’d miss you even if we never met.”— Nick Mercer in “The Wedding Date”
• “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”— Roy Croft
• “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.”— Eric Fromm
• “When the rain is blowing in your face/ And the whole world is on your case/I could offer you a warm embrace/To make you feel my love.”— Bob Dylan, "To Make You Feel My Love"
• “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”— Winnie the Pooh
• “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”— St. Augustine
• “The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. And the best time to love is now.”— Rick Warren
• "The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." — Vincent van Gogh