102 Valentine’s Day Quotes to Share with Anyone You Love
A sweet saying for every special someone in your life
Say what you will about Valentine’s Day, but I can’t help feeling all warm and fuzzy as February 14 approaches. Whether your holiday celebration consists of a fancy gift and a standout meal with your one-and-only or something more low-key, like Chinese takeout and a movie with your besties, we can all appreciate an extra dose of affection.
However you’re choosing to celebrate the lovey-dovey holiday this year, I've rounded up 102 of my favorite Valentine’s Day quotes about romance and relationships to give you all the inspiration you need for cards, gifts, and, of course, Instagram captions. There are love quotes on romance and friendship from celebs, authors and more, ranging from oh-so-romantic excerpts to laugh-out-loud funny sayings. Share with your partner, kids, family or loved ones to show them how much you care or just to make them laugh. (Also, be sure to check out our other feel-good quotes on PureWow’s Inspirational Quotes Pinterest board.)
1. "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet." — Katharine Lee Bates
2. "Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will." — Elaine Davis
3. "All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name." — Andre Breton
4. “l love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
6. “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
7. “Valentine's Day is just another day to truly love like there is no tomorrow.” — Roy A. Ngansop
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8. “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” — Elinor Glyn
9. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” — Madonna
10. “You can't blame gravity for falling in love.” ― Albert Einstein
11. “You don't marry someone you can live with; you marry the person you cannot live without.” — Cecelia Ahern
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12. “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
13. "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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14. “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
15. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire
16. “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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17. “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
18. “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.” – Plato
19. “Love by giving and by taking. Give and be given.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
20. “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss
21. “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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22. “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
23. “Love is an endless act of forgiveness.” — Beyoncé
24. “Love liberates. It doesn't just hold—that's ego.” — Maya Angelou
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25. “There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.” — Reese Witherspoon
26. “I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
27. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” — Zora Neale Hurston
28. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” ― Eva Gabor
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29. “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
30. “Love is an element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.” ― Laini Taylor, Daughter Of Smoke & Bone
31. “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.” — Bob Marley
32. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” — Max Muller
33. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost
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34. "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." — George Sand
35. “Everything is clearer when you're in love.” — John Lennon
36. “Your flaws are perfect for the heart that's meant to love you.” — Trent Shelton
37. "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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38. “Love is the hardest habit to break and the most difficult to satisfy.” — Drew Barrymore
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39. “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
40. "Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” — David Wilkerson
41. “Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones
42. "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love in spite of the fact that they're not." — Jodi Picoult
43. "There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment." — Sarah Dessen
44. “Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.” — Paulo Coelho
45. “But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than mumbling three words before bedtime.” — Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding
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46. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." — Nat King Cole
47. "There are never enough I Love You's." — Lenny Bruce
48. "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." — Oscar Wilde
49. “Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” — Vincent van Gogh
50. "Love is the beauty of the soul." — Saint Augustine
51. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
52. “Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
53. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." — Aristotle
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54. “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
55. "Love is the greatest refreshment in life." — Pablo Picasso
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56. “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
57. "Love is the poetry of the senses." — Honoré de Balzac
58. "A simple 'I love you' means more than money." — Frank Sinatra, "Tell Her"
59. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." — Plato
60. “If grass can grow through cement, love can find you every time.” — Cher
61. “True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.” — Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine
62. “To love at all is to be vulnerable." — C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
63. “And if the stars should ever die, we’ll make our own light, you and I.” — John Mark Green
64. “I don't go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head.” — Princess Diana
65. “Some people are worth melting for.” – Olaf, Frozen
66. “You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.” – Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
67. “When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you, and I’m home.” – Dory, Finding Nemo
68. “You and I are meant to be together. Period. The end. Cue happy-ending music.” — Dawson Leery, Dawson’s Creek
69. "I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." — Carrie Bradshaw
70. “It’s fate. It’s destiny. We both like burritos.” — Seth Cohen, The O.C.
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71. “The single most extraordinary thing I've ever done with my life is fall in love with you.” — Beth Pearson, This Is Us
72. “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk To Remember
73. “I wish I knew how to quit you.” — Brokeback Mountain
74. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." — John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
Valentine's Day Quotes About Friendship
75. “I found out what the secret to life is: friends. Best friends.” — Ninny Threadgoode, Fried Green Tomatoes
76. “Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.” – Mandy Hale
77. “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
78. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” — Princess Diana
79. “There are good ships. And wood ships. And ships that sail the sea. But the best ships are friendships. And may they always be.” — Irish Proverb
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80. "When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best." — Britney Spears
81. "If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love." — Maya Angelou
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82. “They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.” — Bil Keane
83. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
84. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles Schulz
85. “Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell
86. “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
87. "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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88. “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
89. “True love is singing karaoke ‘Under Pressure’ and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.” — Mindy Kaling
90. “Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.” — Fernando Pessoa
91. “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
92. “Without Valentine’s Day, February would be…well, January.” — Jim Gaffigan
93. "My heart’s in the right place. I know, cuz I hid it there." — Carrie Fisher
94. "Remember, your Valentine’s card shows you care enough to send the very best even though you’re too lazy to put it in your own words." — Melanie White
95. "I love Valentine’s Day. When you’re a kid, everyone gets a valentine. It’s like, ‘To Tim, nice pants. Love, Scott.’ It’s valentines galore!" — Mike Birbiglia
96. "Valentine’s Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don’t have a special someone, you’re alone." — Lewis Black
97. "He or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed." — Tom Ribbin
98. "If love means never having to say you’re sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice." —Estelle Getty
99. "Love is just a chocolate substitute." —Melanie Clark Pullen
100. "First Valentine’s Day, 200,000 B.C.: Men and women congregate on opposite sides of Pangaea, waiting for someone to make the first move." —Kristen Schaal
101. "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." —Benjamin Franklin
102. "You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories." —Melanie Clark Pullen
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