Say what you will about Valentine’s Day, but we can’t help feeling all warm and fuzzy as February 14 approaches. Whether your holiday celebration consists of a flower delivery or Chinese takeout, we can all appreciate an extra dose of affection. That’s why we’ve rounded up 80 of our favorite Valentine’s Day quotes about love, romance and relationships. (Also, be sure to check out our other feel-good quotes on PureWow’s Inspirational Quotes Pinterest board.)
80 Valentine’s Day Quotes to Share with Anyone You Love
Published Jan 20, 2023
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1. "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet." — Katharine Lee Bates
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2. "Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will." — Elaine Davis
3. “You and I are meant to be together. Period. The end. Cue happy-ending music.” — Dawson Leery, Dawson’s Creek
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4. "All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name." — Andre Breton
5. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles Schulz
6. “l love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. “Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell
8. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
9. “True love is singing karaoke ‘Under Pressure’ and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.” — Mindy Kaling
10. "I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." — Carrie Bradshaw
11. “It’s fate. It’s destiny. We both like burritos.” — Seth Cohen, The O.C.
12. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
13. “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
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14. “Valentine's Day is just another day to truly love like there is no tomorrow.” — Roy A. Ngansop
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15. “True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.” — Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine
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16. “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” — Elinor Glyn
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17. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” — Madonna
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18. “To love at all is to be vulnerable." — C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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19. “The single most extraordinary thing I've ever done with my life is fall in love with you.” — Beth Pearson, This Is Us
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20. “You can't blame gravity for falling in love.” ― Albert Einstein
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21. “Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
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22. “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.” — Katharine Hepburn
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23. "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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24. “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” — Ann Landers
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25. “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.” — John Krasinski
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26. "A simple 'I love you' means more than money." — Frank Sinatra, "Tell Her"
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27. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” ― Alfred Tennyson
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28. “Love is when you're committed to helping somebody with their life. Helping them to suffer less, helping them to manage their minds and their emotions.” — Will Smith
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29. “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk To Remember
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30. “Love by giving and by taking. Give and be given.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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31. “You can’t measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can’t help but stagger beneath.” ― Sarah Dessen, Once And For All
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32. “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss
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33. “Love to me is someone telling me 'I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to, I’d jump out of a plane for you.'” — Jennifer Lopez
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34. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
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35. “Love is an endless act of forgiveness.” — Beyoncé
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36. “Love liberates. It doesn't just hold—that's ego.” — Maya Angelou
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37. “There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.” — Reese Witherspoon
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38. “I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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39. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” — Zora Neale Hurston
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40. “I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. I want someone to share me, with me.” — Eartha Kitt
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41. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” — Princess Diana
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42. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” ― Eva Gabor
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43. “When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.” — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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44. “Love is an element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.” ― Laini Taylor, Daughter Of Smoke & Bone
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45. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” — Max Muller
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46. “If grass can grow through cement, love can find you every time.” — Cher
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47. "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
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48. "When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best." — Britney Spears
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49. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost
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50. "Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” — David Wilkerson
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51. “I used to think this day was a conspiracy of chocolatiers and florists, but I realize that taking a day out of our busy lives to celebrate the love in our lives is so important and should be every day.” — Ian Somerhalder
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52. “Everything is clearer when you're in love.” — John Lennon
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53. “Your flaws are perfect for the heart that's meant to love you.” — Trent Shelton
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54. “They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.” — Bil Keane
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55. "The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my fifties, I realized that I had to step up to the plate." — Jane Fonda
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56. “Valentine’s Day is one of those things that if I have a boyfriend, I love it and I think it’s the greatest thing in the world. And if I’m single, I just wish the day never existed.” — Nina Dobrev
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57. “Love is the hardest habit to break and the most difficult to satisfy.” — Drew Barrymore
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58. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." — John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
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59. "If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love." — Maya Angelou
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60. "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." — George Sand
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61. "There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment." — Sarah Dessen
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62. “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.” — Bob Marley
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63. “The real love is the man who can thrill you just by kissing your head or smiling into your eyes or just by staring into space.” — Marilyn Monroe
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64. “Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones
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65. "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love in spite of the fact that they're not." — Jodi Picoult
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66. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." — Nat King Cole
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67. “Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.” — Paulo Coelho
68. “But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than mumbling three words before bedtime.” — Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding
69. “Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.” — Fernando Pessoa
70. “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
71. “Without Valentine’s Day, February would be…well, January.” — Jim Gaffigan
72. "There are never enough I Love You's." — Lenny Bruce
73. "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." — Oscar Wilde
74. "Love is the beauty of the soul." — Saint Augustine
75. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
76. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." — Aristotle
77. “Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” — Vincent van Gogh
78. "Love is the greatest refreshment in life." — Pablo Picasso
79. "Love is the poetry of the senses." — Honoré de Balzac
80. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." — Plato
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