40 Love Quotes to Help You Express How You Feel
Sometimes it's hard to find the right words to express how much you love your partner. Fortunately for you, there are a ton of wonderful quotes and sayings to help—whether you're looking for deep, heartfelt love quotes from a famous writer, or a funny love quote from a comedian.
If you need a quote about love to put in your Valentine's Day note, or to celebrate an anniversary, birthday, or another milestone, try one of these love quotes borrowed from the best writers, thinkers, books, and plays.
"The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved..."
– Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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"We accept the love we think we deserve."
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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"I love you directly without problems or pride: / I love you like this because I don't know any other way to love…"
– Pablo Neruda, translated by Mark Eisner, One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
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"Personally, I love a great love story."
– Meghan Markle
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"I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."
– Marilyn Monroe
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"When one sees something especially wonderful, it's always nice to have someone to share it with."
– Mary Anne Schwalbe
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"When one loves, one does not calculate."
– Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
– Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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"She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies; / And all that's best of dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes…"
– Lord Byron, "She Walks in Beauty"
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"But true love is a durable fire / In the mind ever burning; / Never sick, never old, never dead, / From itself never turning."
– Sir Walter Ralegh, "Walsinghame"
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"Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are."
– Will Ferrell
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"'Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
– Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
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"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."
– Robert Browning
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"About you there is nothing I wouldn't want to know / With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler…"
– Peter Gizzi, "Lines Depicting Simple Happiness"
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"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."
– Pearl Bailey
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"Familiar acts are beautiful through love."
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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"There is a strong wall about me to protect me: / It is built of the words you have said to me…"
– Mary Carolyn Davies, "Love Song"
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"...love is a great beautifier."
– Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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"As he read, 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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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched…but are felt in the heart."
– Helen Keller
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"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite."
– William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
– Joan Crawford
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."
– Jean Anouilh
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"Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, and wild leaps."
– Ian McEwan
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach..."
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)"
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"Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn't show up on X-rays, but you know it's there."
– George Burns
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"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you..."
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all."
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam A.H.H."
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"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
– Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
– Franklin P. Jones
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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction."
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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"Clasp me close in your warm young arms, / While the pale stars shine above, / And we'll live our whole young lives away / In the joys of a living love…"
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "I Love You"
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"Though lovers be lost love shall not; / And death shall have no dominion."
– Dylan Thomas, "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"
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"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
– Mignon McLaughlin
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"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others."
– François Mauriac
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"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others."
– Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
– Charles M. Schultz
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"Never did I believe that there could be such utter happiness in this world, such a feeling of unity between two mortal beings. I love you—those three words have my life in them."
– Alix of Hesse