They say an image says a thousand words. That must mean a quote says a million words.
When you love someone, you want to tell them, and you want to tell them often. But what do you say when “I love you” just doesn’t feel enough? Sometimes, we want to express our love and adoration with so much more, like sending a love quote mid day, or sharing an Instagram photo with a really romantic caption.
Where better to look than to some of the best classic books, most famous authors, and most memorable movie quotes?
Wisdom from the centuries
- “It’s much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don’t.” – Jane Stanton Hitchcock
- “Don’t rush into love. You’ll find the person meant for you when you least expect it.” – Franzie Gubatina
- “I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.” – Paulo Coelho
- “The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you’re out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.” – A.J. Darkholme
- “Don’t fall in love with someone who says the right things. Fall in love with someone who does the right things.” – Unknown
- “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” – Orhan Pamuk
- “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
- “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” – C. S. Lewis
- “The eyes tell a lot about what is going on in the mind, and they can convey love in a way that words cannot.” – Alexis G. Roldan
- “Grow old with me, the best is yet to come.” – Robert Browning
- “If you could only love enough, you would be the most powerful person in the world.” – Emmet Fox
- “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Jung
- “A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.” – Leo F. Buscaglia
- “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” – Donald Miller
- “Relationships of all kinds are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.” – Kaleel Jamison
- “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” – Erich Segal
- “A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.” – Honore de Balzac
- “When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.” – Victor Hugo
- “Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like doing it.” – Marian Keyes
- “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr Seuss
- “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” – Pablo Neruda
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
- “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.” –Truman Capote
- “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
- “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford
- “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” – Anonymous
- “When love is not madness it is not love.” – Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost
Wisdom from the movies
- “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” – The Notebook
- “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.” – Moulin Rouge
- “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.” – When Harry met Sally
- “You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed. Forever.” – Love and Other Drugs
- “Some love stories aren’t epic novels. Some are short stories. But that doesn’t make them any less filled with love.” – Sex and The City
- “I love how she makes me feel like anything is possible, or like life is worth it.” – 500 Days of Summer
Wisdom from the books
- “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson
- “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.” – Milan Kundera
- “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” – Milan Kundera
- “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
- “I love you and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte
- “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
- “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” ― Arrigo Boito
- “Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you.” — Meeting Joe Black
- “I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — The Alchemist
- “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – The Fault in Our Stars
- “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.” — Bob Marley
- “’ ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
- “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
- “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” – Jane Austen, Emma
- “He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.” – The Great Gatsby
- “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Daphne Rae
