In Love, Quotes are more than words; they’re heartfelt expressions of the deep connections that bind couples together.
These best-in-love quotes beautifully articulate emotions that can be hard to describe. Whether it’s a simple “I love you” or a literary expression of passion, these best-in-love quotations can help you communicate feelings that are tough to describe eloquently. People turn to romantic love quotes and wishes to celebrate anniversaries, express affection, and mark special moments.
With the power to capture the essence of love, these best-in-love quotes remind us of the strong bonds and cherished memories shared between partners.
Best In Love Quotes
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. – Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. – James Russell Lowell
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. – Donald Miller
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. –Winnie the Pooh
I know I am in love with you because my reality is finally better than my dreams. – Anonymous
Evelyn, loving you kept me alive. I should have died over there. When I was in that water, I made a deal with God. I told him I was sorry. I was a fool for leavin’ you and I told him I would never ask for anything again if I could just see you. And you know what? It was worth it. You kept me alive Evelyn, you brought me home. So I’m gonna stand by my end of the deal, I’m gonna walk away. And I won’t ask you for anything. – Pearl Harbor
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. – Albert Einstein
Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away. –Tom Wilson
This better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Love is jealous that any should come before her, or after. She would be all in all. If a man will trust her and live in her, he shall know all things. – JENNETTE LEE
Can I go where you go?/Can we always be this close forever and ever? —Taylor Swift
She saw him the first day onboard, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – DR. SEUSS
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. —Robert A. Heinlein
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu
If I know what love is, it is because of you. -Hermann Hesse
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. – James Baldwin
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever. —Alfred Tennyson
She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way. – Nicholas Sparks
When someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that is love. – Lana Del Rey
Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself. – Oprah Winfrey
The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved. – Victor Hugo
I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us. – Rumi
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. – John Green
I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more. —Angelita Lim
Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was. – Charles M. Schulz
Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily. —Waylon Jennings
I got lost in him, and it was the kind of loss that’s exactly like being found. — Claire LaZebnik
To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything. — T. Tolis
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. – Augustine of Hippo
To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world. – Bill Wilson
I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect. – Taylor Swift
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. — Lucille Ball
The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun. – Charles de Leusse
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. ― Marilyn Monroe
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu
And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God. – Les Miserables
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
All of me loves all of you. – John Legend
If I tell you I love you, can I keep you forever? – Casper
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We accept the love we think we deserve. – Stephen Chbosk
Who, being loved, is poor? – Oscar Wilde
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. – Martin Farquhar Tupper
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. – Carl Jung
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
True love cannot be found where it does not truly exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does. – Kissing A Fool
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Love asks me no questions and gives me endless support. – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. – ANAIS NIN
I love you, in a really really big, pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. So pick me, choose me, love me. —Meredith Grey
Lord, you know it’s a shame When I only want for you to pull over and hold me Til I can’t remember my own name. – Joanna Newsom
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love. – Robert Fulghum
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. — Mother Teresa
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you. – Ray Croft
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou
We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. —Tom Robbins
I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I feel for days and weeks and what felt like a lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling. – Jess Rothenberg
You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate and what’s written in the stars. – Anaïs Nin
Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. – Miss Piggy
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
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. – Gebran Khalil Gebran
Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will. – Elaine Davis
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. –Audrey Hepburn
Every heart sings a song, incomplete until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. – Plato
In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don’t force it. You just don’t force love, you don’t force falling in love, you don’t force being in love – you just become. I don’t know how to say that in English, but you just feel it. —Juan Pablo Galavis
To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world. —Dr. Seuss
Maybe the only vow we ever need to offer the one we love is this: I will never, not for a sliver of a second, make you feel alone. — Tyler Knott Gregson
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I love you and that’s the beginning and end of everything. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. — Rainer Maria Rilke
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. — Leo Christopher
You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love as you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like its heaven on earth. ― William W. Purkey
The course of true love never did run smooth. – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. – J.R.R. Tolkien
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. – Paulo Coelho
You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. – Julia Roberts
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 Met Sally
You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not. – Jodi Picoult
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment. – Sarah Dessen
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. – Charles Dickens
Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. – Tina Brown
Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. – Rumi
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa
Come live in my heart and pay no rent. – Anonymous
You had me at Hello. – Jerry Maguire
The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that. – Woody Allen
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best thing. – William Thackeray
Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong. – BARBRA STREISAND
He’s my best, best friend. What do you do with your best friend? You do nothing. — Ryan Reynolds
He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Brontë
Love is quivering happiness. – Khalil Gibran
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. —Gautama Buddha
The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention.– Richard Warren
A relationship is an initiation, in away. It’s a rite of passage to really be in a relationship. The point is not just to have things work out so that you’re happy. You have to deal with certain things, like differences. As you work things out, you actually become a more mature person. That’s a very good way in which a relationship serves your soul. – Thomas Moore
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore. —Lady Gaga
I fell in love with you because there was mischief in your eyes. – Michka Assayas
Real love doesn’t meet you at your best. It meets you in your mess. – J.S. Park
Sexiness is a state of mind – a comfortable state of being. It’s about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments. – Halle Berry
Personally, I love a great love story. – Meghan Markle
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. – Marianne Williamson
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
Take my hand, take my whole life too. I can’t help falling in love with you. —Elvis Presley
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 first best is falling in love. The second best is being in love. Least good is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love. —Maya Angelou
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. — Vladimir Nabokov
There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table. — Tom Hanks
To love is to burn, to be on fire. – Jane Austen
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. — Morrie Schwartz
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. – Khalil Gibran
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. — Lord Byron
I love you” begins by me, but it ends up by you. ― Charles de Leusse
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ― Martin Luther King Jr
Passion is momentary; love is enduring. – John Wooden
True love is eternal, infinite and always like itself. It’s always equal and pure. Without violent demonstrations: It is seen with white hairs and is always young at heart. – Honore de Balzac
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
I love you. Very, Very Simply, Very Truly. You are the epitome of everything I have ever looked for in another human being. – Chasing Amy
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life — that word is love. – Sophocles
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – Oscar Wilde
Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it. – Nicholas Sparks
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. – Emily Brontë
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer. – Thomas Mann
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find it them. – Thomas Merton
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love. — Harriet Prescott Spofford
I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. – Notting Hill
Is this how it goes? You fall in love, and nothing seems truly scary anymore, and life is one big possibility? – Jenny Han
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. –Maya Angelou
If you would be loved, love and be lovable. – Benjamin Franklin
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship — never. – CHARLES CALEB COLTON
If love ain’t dead I’ma kill it ’cause it’s killin’ me/Cold world, they’ll be livin’ in a fantasy/Got me, it’s the only thing I’ll ever need. —Lizzo
Will you mess up my bed with me? – Angelina Kace
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. – Nicholas Sparks
I wish I knew how to quit you. – Brokeback Mountain
Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is a quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing, and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers
Love is a friendship set to music. – Joseph Campbell
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. -Eleanor Roosevelt
We love the things we love for what they are. —Robert Frost
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. – Jennifer Aniston
When one sees something especially wonderful, it’s always nice to have someone to share it with. – Mary Anne Schwalbe
Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. – Dr. Seuss
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
You’re the closest to heaven, that I’ll ever be. —Goo Goo Dolls
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
You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast. – Catherynne M. Valente
A view of the ocean, mountains and the sunset. But yet, he was still looking at me. — Aly Aubrey
I never want to stop making memories with you. — Pierre Jeanty
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix
My six-word love story: I can’t imagine life without you. – Anonymous
The giving of love is an education in itself. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Love in its essence is spiritual fire. — Seneca
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life. – Elizabeth Gilbert
The opposite of love does not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. ― Elie Wiesel
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. – Sigmund Freud
I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.-Shannon A. Thompson
Where there is love there is life. – Mahatma Gandhi
She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person. –E. Leventhal
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. — Allan K. Chalmers
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow. – John Lennon’s
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. – Jess C. Scott
Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. – Edmond Rostand
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. – William Wordsworth
My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing the beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive. I’ll find love again. – Paulo Coelho
Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are. – Omar Suleiman
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. — Robert Jordan
Here’s looking at you kid. – Casablanca
Relationships are funny. You have to constantly fall in love and challenge each other. – Justin Timberlake
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. – Barbara De Angelis
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. – G.K. Chesterton
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. – LEO TOLSTOY
He doesn’t try to dim my light. He puts me in the light, even if I don’t want to be. He pushes me to further points I never thought about. It always was something that I could see in some relationships — my light would be dimmer. Now I feel like I can shine really bright and still do everything that I want to do. — Serena William
I have to admit I fell in love twice. First was with you and the second was with the person you became when you were already mine. – Dawson’s Creek
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. – Mark Twain
Our first and last love is self-love. — Christian Nestell Bovee
In order to be happy oneself, it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. – Theodor Reik
The best proof of love is trust. – Joyce Brothers
You deserve love, and you’ll get it. —Amy Poehler
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable. – Wizard of Oz
When one loves, one does not calculate. – Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me. – Nayyirah Waheed
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. – Oscar Wilde
It’s always better when we’re together. — Jack Johnson
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything. – Bil Keane
Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what’s happening. It’s inevitable. An event you can’t control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course. —Jackie Collins
There is my heart, and then there is you, and I’m not sure there is a difference. — A.R. Asher
I still haven’t figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do. — William C. Hannan
To love is risky. Not to love is foolish. – Maxime Lagacé
At a touch of love everyone becomes a poet. — Plato
You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. – Mr. Darcy
Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. — Leo Buscaglia
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. – Maya Angelou
You love me. Real or not real? I tell him, Real.― Suzanne Collins
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. – Lawrence Durrell
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.-Ursula K. Le Guin
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return Unforgettable with Love. – Natalie Cole
We were together. I forgot the rest. – Walt Whitman
The best things in life aren’t things. — Art Buchwald
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. – Satchel Paige
The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you. – Markus Zusak
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. – Jalaluddin Rumi
Home is the nicest word there is. – Laura Ingalls Wilder
We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There’s no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy; there’s nothing we can do. – Nina George
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle
Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important. — Lisa Hoffman
It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other. – Good Will Hunting
Falling in love is not an extension of one’s limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them. – M Scott Peck
You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the saddest, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.– Kirsten Dunst
Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones
Love your enemies. – BIBLE
Completely love at first sight. He told me he went home and wrote my number on so many other things in case he lost it. – David Beckham
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. – Zelda Fitzgerald
But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart. – Maria V. Snyder
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. —Henry Drummond
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. – George W. Melville
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. – WAYNE DYER
You make me want to be a better man. – Melvin Udall
We loved with a love that was more than love. — Edgar Allen Poe
These best-in-love quotes serve as a conduit for expressing feelings when it might be challenging. Quotes about love capture the wonder of relationships and act as enduring mementos of special occasions. Use these best-in-love sayings and wishes to celebrate love’s charm one area at a time.