105 Heartwarming Valentine’s Day Quotes to Express Your Love

Love is a profound emotion that can be challenging to put into words. Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to celebrate love in all its forms—whether through heartfelt love letters, romantic comedies, or sweet treats.

However, expressing your feelings can be daunting, especially if you’re struggling to find the right words for a Valentine’s Day card.

Fortunately, some of the world’s greatest poets, philosophers, comedians, and celebrities have beautifully captured the essence of love.

These Valentine’s Day quotes are perfect for lovers, friends, or simply reflecting on what love means to you.

Timeless and Inspirational Love Quotes

1. “Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” — Walter Winchell
2. “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
3. “Love is the beauty of the soul.” — Saint Augustine
4. “And if the stars should ever die, we’ll make our own light, you and I.” — John Mark Green
5. “There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.” — Reese Witherspoon
6. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give.” — Madonna
7. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” — Pablo Picasso
8. “Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” — Vincent van Gogh
9. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde
10. “I don’t go by the rule book … I lead from the heart, not the head.” — Princess Diana
11. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” — Loretta Young
12. “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones
13. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” — Plato
14. “I love you very much, probably more than anybody could love another person.” — ’50 First Dates’
15. “Valentine’s Day is a love-note to the rest of the year. Graciously, it comes at a perfect time to be savored — that period of calm between winter holiday commotion and spring enticements.” — Jo Lightfoot
16. “I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you’re in the world.” — Elton John
17. “My heart to you is given, oh do give yours to me; We’ll lock them up together, and throw away the key.” — Frederick Saunders
18. “I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever.” — ‘The Vow’
19. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
20. “Love is the whole thing. We are only the pieces.” — Rumi
21. “Love is being stupid together.” — Paul Valery
22. “Oh, here’s an idea: Let’s make pictures of our internal organs and give them to other people we love on Valentine’s Day. That’s not weird at all.” — Jimmy Fallon
23. “This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.” — Aberjhani
24. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost
25. “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning
26. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
27. “I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” — Nicholas Sparks
28. “All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” — André Breton
29. “Love is the poetry of the senses.” — Honore de Balzac
30. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” — Rumi
31. “I want you for always … days, years, eternities.” — Franz Schubert
32. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” — William Shakespeare
33. “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.” — Winnie the Pooh
34. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” — Jodi Picoult
35. “To love another person is to see the face of God.” — ‘Les Misérables’
36. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” — Voltaire
37. “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.” — ‘When Harry Met Sally’
38. “When you put your arms around me, you let me know there’s nothing in this world I can’t do.” — Keith Urban
39. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Thoreau
40. “When you love someone, you love the whole person as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” — Leo Tolstoy
41. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
42. “Take me to your heart, for it’s there that I belong.” — Elvis Presley
43. “Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.” — Gloria Steinem
44. “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.” — Plato
45. “I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” — ‘The Notebook’
46. “Even in my dreams I never imagined that I should find so much love on earth.” — Prince Albert
47. “If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.” — Miles Davis
48. “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” — Ann Landers
49. “To me, you are perfect.” — ‘Love Actually’
50. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse

Modern and Funny Love Quotes

51. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
52. “Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
53. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
54. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” — Eva Gabor
55. “‘Tis better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.” — Ernest Hemingway
56. “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
57. “I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
58. “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” — Elinor Glyn
59. “To love at all is to be vulnerable.” — C.S. Lewis
60. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles M. Schulz
61. “Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can’t help falling in love with you.” — Elvis Presley
62. “Everything is clearer when you’re in love.” — John Lennon
63. “Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.” — Katharine Lee Bates
64. “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
65. “Love is never wrong.” — Melissa Etheridge
66. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde
67. “Your flaws are perfect for the heart that’s meant to love you.” — Trent Shelton
68. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
69. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
70. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
71. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
72. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” — Pablo Picasso
73. “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
74. “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” — Albert Einstein
75. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
76. “Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
77. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
78. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
79. “Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.” — Audre Lorde
80. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
81. “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — Arthur Conan Doyle
82. “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” — Barbara De Angelis
83. “They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.” — Bil Keane
84. “I know of only one duty, and that is to love.” — Albert Camus
85. “The heart has its reason of which reason knows nothing.” — Blaise Pascal
86. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
87. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
88. “The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you.” — Beth Pearson, “This Is Us”
89. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand
90. “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
91. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles M. Schulz
92. “Today is Valentine’s Day — or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!” — Jay Leno
93. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
94. “We are most alive when we’re in love.” — John Updike
95. “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” — Jane Austen

Philosophical and Heartfelt Love Quotes

96. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
97. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” — Loretta Young
98. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” — Diana, Princess of Wales
99. “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” — Paulo Coelho
100. “True love stories never have endings.” — Richard Bach
101. “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” — Stephanie Perkins
102. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” — Max Muller
103. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another.” — Thomas Merton
104. “Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.” — William Shakespeare
105. “Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant as the years multiply.” — Zane Grey

Final Thoughts

This Valentine’s Day, let these quotes inspire you to express your love in the most heartfelt way possible.

Whether you’re writing a love letter, choosing a card, or simply reflecting on the beauty of love, these words can help you capture the essence of your feelings.

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