77 Romantic Love Quotes to Share with That Special Someone

Just in time for Valentine's Day

By Alexia Dellner

Published Feb 9, 2024

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Love is as wonderful as it is complex, which can make it a little challenging to put into words. But who said it had to be your words?

Perhaps you need a romantic quote that captures exactly how you feel about your new partner that goes beyond “I love you.” Or maybe you’d prefer a less cheesy saying that speaks to the highs and lows of marriage. Either way, we've got all the inspiration you need, thanks to this wide selection of quotes from celebrities, romantic comedies and famous romance novels that you can write on a Post-It note, add to a card, use for an Instagram caption or simply save for later.

See below for 77 of the best love quotes to have in your pocket, whether you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day, a wedding anniversary or just reassuring your significant other that you’re in this together while folding a massive pile of laundry.

best love quotes: 1. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” — Oprah Winfrey

1. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” — Oprah Winfrey

best love quotes: 2. “Being in love is the worst. I mean it’s the best, but it's so hard and scary to open your heart to someone…but the point is, vulnerability is the key to happiness. Vulnerable people are powerful people.” — Amy Poehler

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2. “Being in love is the worst. I mean it’s the best, but it's so hard and scary to open your heart to someone…but the point is, vulnerability is the key to happiness. Vulnerable people are powerful people.” — Amy Poehler

best love quotes: 3. “It’s the 21st century. I don’t need an alpha male to protect me. I don’t need a big, strong man to fight off a tiger. I need a geek who can get my naked photos off the cloud.” — Whitney Cummings

3. “It’s the 21st century. I don’t need an alpha male to protect me. I don’t need a big, strong man to fight off a tiger. I need a geek who can get my naked photos off the cloud.” — Whitney Cummings

best love quotes: 4. “First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.” — Maya Angelou

4. “First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.” — Maya Angelou

5. “My mom always used to say, ‘You can't say I love you before you can say I.’ And I think that sort of makes sense.” — Mindy Kaling

best love quotes: 6. “I asked my dad once, ‘How did you and Mom stay married for 33 years?’ And he said, ‘Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time.’” — Gwyneth Paltrow

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6. “I asked my dad once, ‘How did you and Mom stay married for 33 years?’ And he said, ‘Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time.’” — Gwyneth Paltrow

best love quotes: 7. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” — Agatha Christie

7. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” — Agatha Christie

best love quotes: 8. “Someone once said to me, and I think it's quite true, that if your bodies actually fit together when you're sleeping in bed—I'm not going to get into too much detail—you're in good stead. When you can spoon with someone, then you're OK. Because you might not vote the same way, you might not have the same politics, but sometimes that works for people.” — Cate Blanchett

8. “Someone once said to me, and I think it's quite true, that if your bodies actually fit together when you're sleeping in bed—I'm not going to get into too much detail—you're in good stead. When you can spoon with someone, then you're OK. Because you might not vote the same way, you might not have the same politics, but sometimes that works for people.” — Cate Blanchett

9. “Dax helped me learn that I don't have it all figured out. Sometimes that's the greatest gift someone can give you.” — Kristen Bell

10. “You and I are meant to be together. Period. The end. Cue happy-ending music.” — Dawson Leery, Dawson’s Creek

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11. “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

best love quotes: 12. “We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.”— Anna Segee,The Stranger In Her Bed

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12. “We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.”— Anna Segee, The Stranger In Her Bed

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13. “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern

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14. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” — Zora Neale Hurston

best love quotes: 15. “Love doesn't make sense! I mean, you can't logic your way in or out of it. Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it, or else we're lost, and love is dead.” — Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother

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15. “Love doesn't make sense! I mean, you can't logic your way in or out of it. Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it, or else we're lost, and love is dead.” — Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother

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16. “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

best love quotes: 17. “Remember that thing you told me about wanting me to be happy? Even if it meant you couldn’t be a part of my life? Well, what if I can’t be happy unless you’re part of it?” — Sylvie Parker, Sylvie’s Love

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17. “Remember that thing you told me about wanting me to be happy? Even if it meant you couldn’t be a part of my life? Well, what if I can’t be happy unless you’re part of it?” — Sylvie Parker, Sylvie’s Love

best love quotes: 18. “It’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” — Noah,The Notebook

18. “It’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” — Noah, The Notebook

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19. “I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.” — Kat Stratford, 10 Things I Hate About You

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20. “I think I'd miss you even if we'd never met.” — Nick Mercer, The Wedding Date

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21. “True love is singing karaoke 'Under Pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.” — Mindy Kaling

best love quotes: 22. "In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find someone who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you." — Mac Macguff, Juno

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22. “In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find someone who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you.” — Mac Macguff, Juno

best love quotes: 23. “I don't want to sound foolish, but remember love is what brought you here. And if you've trusted love this far, don't panic now. Trust it all the way." — Sharon Rivers, If Beale Street Could Talk

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23. “I don't want to sound foolish, but remember love is what brought you here. And if you've trusted love this far, don't panic now. Trust it all the way.” — Sharon Rivers, If Beale Street Could Talk

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`24. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” — Nat King Cole, “Nature Boy”

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25. “But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than mumbling three words before bedtime.” — Wilson Lewis, The Wedding

26. “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

best love quotes: 27. "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." — Arwen, Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

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27. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” — Arwen, Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

best love quotes: 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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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

best love quotes: 29. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around is becomes better too.” ― Santiago, The Alchemist

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29. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around is becomes better too.” ― Santiago, The Alchemist

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30. “Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” ― James Baldwin

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31. “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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32. “I love you very much, probably more than anybody could love another person.” — Henry Roth, 50 First Dates

best love quotes: 33. “If you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.” — Julianne Potter, My Best Friend’s Wedding

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33. “If you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.” — Julianne Potter, My Best Friend’s Wedding

34. “It's fate. It's destiny. We both like burritos.” — Seth Cohen, The O.C.

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35. “The single most extraordinary thing I've ever done with my life is fall in love with you.” — Beth Pearson, This Is Us

best love quotes: 36. "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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36. “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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37. “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

38. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald

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39. “True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.” ― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

40. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged cupid painted blind.” — Helena, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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41. “To love at all is to be vulnerable.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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42. “There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.” — Reese Witherspoon

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43. “Love is an endless act of forgiveness.” — Beyoncé

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44. “Love by giving and by taking. Give and be given.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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45. “Maybe it is our imperfections which make us so perfect for one another. — Mr. Knightley, Emma

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46. “Is it possible to love someone so completely they simply can’t die?” — Peter Lake, Winter’s Tale

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47. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” — Max Muller

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48. “A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.” — Frank Sinatra, "Tell Her"

best love quotes: 49. “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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49. “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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50. “Love liberates. It doesn't just hold—that's ego.” — Maya Angelou

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51. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” ― Eva Gabor

best love quotes: 52. “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

52. “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

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53. “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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54. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” — Madonna

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55. “You can't blame gravity for falling in love.” ― Albert Einstein

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56. “You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant.” — Rupi Kaur

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57. “The best smell in the world is that man that you love.” — Jennifer Aniston

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58. “Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the hell out of you.” — Dolly Parton

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59. “When you find that one that's right for you, you feel like they were put there for you, you never want to be apart.” — Joe Manganiello

best love quotes: 60. "There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important." — Helen Fisher

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60. “There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important.” — Helen Fisher

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61. "If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?" — Rupaul

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62. "Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken." — Amy Poehler

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63. "To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous." — Elizabeth Gilbert

best love quotes: 64. “I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.” — Jodi Picoult

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64. “I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.” — Jodi Picoult

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65. “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” — Henry Miller

66. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse

67. “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.” — Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

68. “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

best love quotes: 69. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” — Sarah Dessen

69. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” — Sarah Dessen

70. “To love is to burn, to be on fire.” — Jane Austen

71. “I like myself better when I'm with you.” — Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

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72. “I saw that you were perfect and I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” — Angelita Lim

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73. "We loved with a love that was more than love." — Edgar Allan Poe

best love quotes: 72. “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.” — André Breton

74. “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.” — André Breton

best love quotes: 73. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” — Sophocles

75. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” — Sophocles

best love quotes: 74. “I came here tonight because 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 Burns, When Harry Met Sally

76. “I came here tonight because 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 Burns, When Harry Met Sally

best love quotes: 75. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” — Nikki Giovanni

77. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” — Nikki Giovanni

Alexia Dellner

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Alexia Dellner is an executive editor at PureWow who has over ten years of experience covering a broad range of topics including health, wellness, travel, family, culture and...

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