45 Lovely Valentine’s Day Quotes to Share with Loved Ones
We know, we know. 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 red-rose delivery or Chinese takeout, we can all appreciate an extra dose of affection. That’s why we’ve rounded up 45 of our favorite Valentine's Day quotes on love, romance and relationships below. (Also, be sure to check out all of our other feel-good quotes on PureWow’s Inspirational Quotes Pinterest board.)
1. “You and I are meant to be together. Period. The end. Cue happy-ending music.” – Dawson Leery, Dawson’s Creek
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2. “I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. “But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than mumbling three words before bedtime.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding
“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
5. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles Schulz
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6. “Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.” – Fernando Pessoa
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
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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, Sex and the City
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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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