Life Family Relationships 40 Love Quotes to Help You Express How You Feel By Lauren Phillips Lauren Phillips Lauren is a former SEO Editor at Real Simple. She began her career at Coastal Living and joined Real Simple in 2018, where she was an Assistant Editor, an Associate Editor, and eventually an SEO Editor. With more than five years of digital media experience, she's an accomplished editor, writer, and digital media strategist focusing on lifestyle content, including home decor, cleaning and organizing, home improvement, personal finance, and other lifestyle topics. Real Simple's Editorial Guidelines Updated on January 7, 2022 Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong 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. 01 of 40 "The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved..." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables 02 of 40 "We accept the love we think we deserve." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower 03 of 40 "I love you directly without problems or pride: / I love you like this because I don't know any other way to love…" Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Pablo Neruda, translated by Mark Eisner, One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII 04 of 40 "Personally, I love a great love story." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Meghan Markle 05 of 40 "I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Marilyn Monroe 06 of 40 "When one sees something especially wonderful, it's always nice to have someone to share it with." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Mary Anne Schwalbe 07 of 40 "When one loves, one does not calculate." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Saint Thérèse of Lisieux 08 of 40 "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 09 of 40 "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…" Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Lord Byron, "She Walks in Beauty" 10 of 40 "But true love is a durable fire / In the mind ever burning; / Never sick, never old, never dead, / From itself never turning." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Sir Walter Ralegh, "Walsinghame" 11 of 40 "Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Will Ferrell 12 of 40 "'Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land 13 of 40 "Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Robert Browning 14 of 40 "About you there is nothing I wouldn't want to know / With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler…" Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Peter Gizzi, "Lines Depicting Simple Happiness" 15 of 40 "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Pearl Bailey 16 of 40 "Familiar acts are beautiful through love." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Percy Bysshe Shelley 17 of 40 "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." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Nicole Krauss, The History of Love 18 of 40 "There is a strong wall about me to protect me: / It is built of the words you have said to me…" Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Mary Carolyn Davies, "Love Song" 19 of 40 "...love is a great beautifier." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 20 of 40 "As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars 21 of 40 "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched…but are felt in the heart." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Helen Keller 22 of 40 "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." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet 23 of 40 "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Joan Crawford 24 of 40 "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Ella Wheeler Wilcox 25 of 40 "Love is, above all, the gift of oneself." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Jean Anouilh 26 of 40 "Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, and wild leaps." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Ian McEwan 27 of 40 "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach..." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)" 28 of 40 "Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn't show up on X-rays, but you know it's there." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – George Burns 29 of 40 "I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you..." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Elizabeth Barrett Browning 30 of 40 "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam A.H.H." 31 of 40 "He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights 32 of 40 "Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Franklin P. Jones 33 of 40 "Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 34 of 40 "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…" Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "I Love You" 35 of 40 "Though lovers be lost love shall not; / And death shall have no dominion." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Dylan Thomas, "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" 36 of 40 "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Mignon McLaughlin 37 of 40 "To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – François Mauriac 38 of 40 "To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Anne-Sophie Swetchine 39 of 40 "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Charles M. Schultz 40 of 40 "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." Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong – Alix of Hesse Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit