Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to share love and warmth through words. A well-chosen quote can light up someone’s heart and make them feel cherished. Whether you’re writing a card, sending a text, or posting on social media, finding the right words can make all the difference.
Our list of Valentine’s Day quotes covers everything from sweet and romantic to funny and clever. Get ready to find the perfect quote to express your feelings on this special day.
Romantic Quotes for Partners
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou
“I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer.” – Unknown
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.” – Unknown
“I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.” – Unknown
“You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” – E. E. Cummings
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” – T. Tolis
“When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.” – Jane Austen
“I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had.” – Nicholas Sparks
“True love is putting someone else’s needs before yours.” – Olaf
“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
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
“Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
“Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity.” – Truth Devour
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.” – William Blake
“I love you with the breath, the smiles, and the tears of all my life.” – Unknown
“My soul and your soul are forever tangled.” – N.R. Hart
“You may hold my hand for a while, but you hold my heart forever.” – Unknown
“My heart is, and always will be, yours.” – Jane Austen
“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” – Dr. Seuss
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” – Leo Christopher
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” – Sophocles
“In your smile, I see something more beautiful than the stars.” – Beth Revis
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” – Vladimir Nabokov
“With you, I am home.” – Unknown
“I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” – Ben Folds
“Your hand touching mine. This is how galaxies collide.” – Sanober Khan
Quotes to Brighten Your Valentines Day
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — Arthur Conan Doyle
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” — Blaise Pascal
“True love stories never have endings.” — Richard Bach
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” — Arrigo Boito
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every day.” — Unknown
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou
“I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” — Ben Folds
“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.” — Nicholas Sparks
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Henry David Thoreau
“I am yours, don’t give myself back to me.” — Rumi
“In your life, my infinite dreams live.” — Pablo Neruda
“A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.” — Frank Sinatra
“You are and always have been my dream.” — Nicholas Sparks
“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry someone you cannot live without.” — Unknown
“Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” — Pablo Picasso
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.” — C.S. Lewis
“You are the closest I will ever come to magic.” — Suzanne Finnamore
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
“We are most alive when we’re in love.” — John Updike
“My love for you is a journey; starting at forever, and ending at never.” — Unknown
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” — T. Tolis
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.” — Jane Austen
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse
“Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.” — Unknown
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë
Quotes for Long-Distance Love
“Distance means so little when someone means so much.” – Tom McNeal
“Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits.” – Dee King
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” – Thomas Fuller
“I exist in two places, here and where you are.” – Margaret Atwood
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
“The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.” – Edward Thomas
“Love knows no distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.” – Gilbert Parker
“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.” – A.A. Milne
“When two hearts are meant for each other, no distance is too far, no time is too long, and no other love can break them apart.” – Unknown
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).” – E.E. Cummings
“Distance is just a test to see how far love can travel.” – Unknown
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“Love is not finding someone to live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without.” – Rafael Ortiz
“Distance means nothing when someone means everything.” – Unknown
“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.” – Doug Fetherling
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.” – Hans Nouwen
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Missing someone gets easier every day because even though you are one day further from the last time you saw them, you are also one day closer to the next time you will.” – Unknown
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.” – Miguel de Cervantes
“Waiting is a sign of true love and patience. Anyone can say I love you, but not everyone can wait and prove it’s true.” – Unknown
“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.” – John Dryden
“The distance between us may be miles and years, but it will not change the fact, I hope you realize, that you will be forever in my heart.” – Unknown
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“It’s not the distance that’s the enemy, but the endless time I have to wait to hold you in my arms.” – Besski Levius
“I don’t miss you and you alone – I miss you and me together.” – Unknown
“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.” – Nancy Friday
“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” – James Thurber
“Love is like a bridge; through time and distance it brings us closer.” – Unknown
Funny Valentines Day Quotes
“Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, it’s probably crap.” – Unknown
“I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.” – Elizabeth Evans
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
“Love is sharing your popcorn.” – Charles Schultz
“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” – Lily Tomlin
“Valentine’s Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don’t have a special someone, you’re alone.” – Lewis Black
“Love is being stupid together.” – Paul Valery
“Remember, your Valentine is never to be won by sending a card bought with your dad’s credit card.” – Unknown
“I love you with all my belly. I would say my heart, but my belly is bigger.” – Unknown
“If you can stay in love for more than two years, you’re on something.” – Fran Lebowitz
“By all means, marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston
“Love is a lot like a backache: it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.” – George Burns
“Marriage is like vitamins: we supplement each other’s minimum daily requirements.” – Kathy Mohnke
“Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.” – Thomas Dewar
“Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January.” – Jim Gaffigan
“I love you more than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow.” – Unknown
“I want to be the reason you look down at your phone and smile. Then walk into a pole.” – Unknown
“Love doesn’t drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.” – Helen Gurley Brown
“Love is a splendid thing, until it makes a fool of you.” – Unknown
“I love you no matter what you do, but please don’t ask me to bleed on you.” – Unknown
“A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.” – Tim Allen
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.” – Jules Renard
“Love is hiding who you are at all times. It’s wearing make-up to bed and going downstairs to Burger King to poop.” – 30 Rock
“I love you more than pizza, and that’s saying a lot.” – Unknown
“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings.” – David Sedaris
“Love is blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.” – Pauline Thomason
“I love you more than I hate everything else.” – Rainbow Rowell
“Love is telling someone their hair extensions are showing.” – Natasha Leggero
“Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.” – Oscar Wilde
“I love you so much I’ll even let you eat the last French fry.” – Unknown
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland
“Love is messy. If it’s too easy, it’s probably not love.” – Unknown
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman
Inspirational Love Quotes
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Eden Ahbez
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is a partnership of two unique people who bring out the very best in each other, and who know that even though they are wonderful as individuals, they are even better together.” – Barbara Cage
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” – Maya Angelou
“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry someone you cannot live without.” – Unknown
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“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.” – Nicholas Sparks
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou
“Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.” – Miguel Ángel Ruiz
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” – János Arany
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire
“To love and be loved is to feel both sides of the coin that laughter and tears flip.” – Original
“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.” – Jane Austen
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” – Blaise Pascal
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubinstein
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.” – Original
“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” – John Lennon
“We are most alive when we’re in love.” – John Updike
“To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna
“we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Lewis Carroll
In Conclusion
Wrapping up, these Valentine’s Day quotes offer a beautiful touch to your celebrations. Whether it’s a message to a partner, a friend, or even yourself, they serve as little pieces of love that can brighten anyone’s day. Each quote has the power to make someone smile, feel cherished, or simply remind them of the special bond you share.
Feel free to choose the ones that speak to you the most. Share them in a card, a text, or even a social media post. It’s these heartfelt words that can make Valentine’s Day memorable for everyone.
