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 love quotes and sayings to help—whether you're looking for deep, heartfelt love quotes from a famous writer, or a funny Valentine's Day 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.
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"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)."
—E.E. Cummings, "I Carry Your Heart With Me"
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“I’m in love. I was hit by cupid’s sparrow.”
—Michael Scott, The Office
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"Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt thy love."
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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"Where there is love there is life.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
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"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
—Emily Dickinson
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"I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen."
—Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything
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“Look into your eyes, and the sky’s the limit, I’m helpless! Down for the count and I’m drowning in ‘em…”
—Lin Manuel Miranda, "Helpless," Hamilton
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"Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
—Victor Hugo
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"You have bewitched me body and soul and I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."
—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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“If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.”
—Led Zeppelin, "Thank You"
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"Cherish the thought of always having you here by my side. Oh baby, I cherish the joy you keep bringing into my life. I'm always singing it."
—Madonna, "Cherish"
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"We loved with a love that was more than love."
—Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee"
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"The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time."
—Julia Child
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"I feel like this is the beginning, though I've loved you for a million years."
—Stevie Wonder, "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
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"The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough."
—Yoko Ono
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“Everywhere I’m looking now, I’m surrounded by your embrace. Baby, I can see your halo. You know you’re my saving grace."
—Beyonce, "Halo"
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“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, then face all the ages of this world alone.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
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"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you I could walk through my garden forever."
—Lord Alfred Tennyson
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"Love is a two-way street constantly under construction."
—Carroll Bryant
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"Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again."
—The Cure, "Lovesong"
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“Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.”
—Dolly Parton
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“True love stories never have endings.”
—Richard Bach
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“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”
—William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
—Audrey Hepburn
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"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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“To meet a beautiful woman is one thing, but to meet your best friend in the most beautiful of women is something entirely apart.”
—Simon Basset, Bridgerton
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"Personally, I love a great love story."
– Meghan Markle
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“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
—Jane Austen
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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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"If I could I would give you the world, but all I can do is just offer you my love.”
—Prince, "Diamonds and Pearls"
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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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"At last, my love has come along. My lonely days are over, and life is like a song."
—Etta James, "At Last"
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"When one loves, one does not calculate."
– Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
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"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
—Henry David Thoreau
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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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"Take my hand, take my whole life, too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.”
—Elvis Presley, "Can't Help Falling in Love With You"
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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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'I don’t care too much for money. Money can’t buy me love."
—The Beatles, "Can't Buy Me Love"
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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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“We are made of particles that have existed since the moment the universe began. I like to think those atoms traveled 14 billion years through time and space to create us so we could be together and make each other whole.”
—Leonard Hofstadter, Big Bang Theory
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"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."
– Robert Browning
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"Your love is better than ice cream, better than anything else that I’ve tried."
—Sarah McLachlan, "Ice Cream"
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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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“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
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"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."
– Pearl Bailey
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"And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me. And at every table, I'll save you a seat. Lover.”
—Taylor Swift, "Lover"
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"Familiar acts are beautiful through love."
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Love is friendship on fire.”
—Susan Sontag
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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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"We're all a little weird, and life's a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it LOVE."
—Dr. Seuss
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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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"I love you. I always have. I'll drift next to you every day as a ghost just to be with you."
—Li Mu Bai, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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"...love is a great beautifier."
– Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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"Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence."
—Vincent Van Gogh
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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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“With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.”
—Ilsa, Casablanca
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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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"You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down."
—George Bailey, It's a Wonderful Life
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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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"Every time it rains, you’re here in my head, like the sun coming out. Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen.
—Kate Bush, "Cloudbusting"
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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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“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
—Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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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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“The things that you have done for me to help me, support me, surprise me, to make me happy, go above and beyond what any person deserves. You’re all I need. I love you and I like you.”
—Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation
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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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"People do belong to each other, because that's the only chance that anyone's got for true happiness."
—Breakfast at Tiffany's
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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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“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, When Harry Met Sally
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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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“Baby, I’m amazed at the way you love me all the time, and maybe I’m afraid of the way I love you.”
—Paul McCartney, "Maybe I'm Amazed"
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"You and I have so much love, that it burns like a fire, in which we bake a lump of clay, molded into a figure of you and a figure of me."
—Guan Daosheng, "Married Love"
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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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"In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble. They’re only made of clay. But our love is here to stay."
—Ira and George Gershwin, "Our Love Is Here to Stay"
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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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"If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea, I’ll sail the world to find you. If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can’t see, I’ll be the light to guide you.”
—Bruno Mars, "Count on Me"
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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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"We go together like sound and sight, black and white, day and night. We go together like left and right. Oh, we go together.”
—Vampire Weekend, "We Go Together"
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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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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu
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"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
– Mignon McLaughlin
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“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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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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"Cause all of me loves all of you. Love your curves and all your edges, all your perfect imperfections."
—John Legend, "All of Me"
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"Live in my house, I'll be your shelter. Just pay me back with 1,000 kisses. Be my lover, and I'll cover you."
—"I'll Cover You," Rent
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"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others."
– François Mauriac
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"They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true.”
—Edward Bloom, Big Fish
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"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others."
– Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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"I love you in a really, really big way. Pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio above my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. So pick me, choose me, love me.“
—Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
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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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"Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby—awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess."
—Lemony Snicket
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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
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"I was standing.…You were there.…Two worlds collided.…And they could never, ever, tear us apart."
—INXS, "Never Tear Us Apart"
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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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"The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
—Satine and Christian, Moulin Rouge