Short Love Quotes, Thoughts, Sayings
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Short Love Quotes For Every Occasion
Looking for love sayings to show how much you feel for your boyfriend or girlfriend? Browse through this vast array of quotations—everything from serious to funny—and find the message that you like best.
1. Love Quotations for Her
I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.
Unknown
When I fall in love, it will be forever.
Jane Austen
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.
Leo Christopher
He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë
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I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.
Unknown
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
Charlotte Brontë
Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
Peeta, The Hunger Games
I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer.
Unknown
I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.
Anna (Julia Roberts) to William (Hugh Grant) in Notting Hill
2. Love Quotes for Him
The bravest thing that men do is love women.
Mort Sahl
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
Vladimir Nabokov
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
I’m much more me when I’m with you.
Unknown
I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you.’
William Shakespeare
I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.
Pablo Neruda
I am who I am because of you.
Noah, The Notebook
You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.
Rhett Butler, Gone With The Wind
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All of me loves all of you.
John Legend, All of Me
You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I LOVE YOU.
Pride & Prejudice
yours is the light by which my spirit’s born:
yours is the darkness of my soul’s return
—you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars
E.E. Cummings
3. Pop Culture Love Quotations
Short love quotes and lines from TV, movies, theater, and song.
I love you. I knew it the minute I met you.
Pat Solitano, Silver Linings Playbook
You had me at hello.
Dorothy Boyd, Jerry Maguire
I love how she makes me feel like anything is possible, or like life is worth it.
Tom, 500 Days of Summer
I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.
Lord of The Rings
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
You look good wearing my future.
Keith, a character from Some Kind of Wonderful
I love you more today than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow.
Spiral Staircase
You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person, and your life is changed. Forever.
Jamie, Love and Other Drugs
I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met.
Nick, a character from The Wedding Date
It is a treasure that is outshined by what it means… eternal romance.
Theresa Ann Moore, Engagement Ring
Sweet wonderful you / You make me happy with the things you do. Oh, can it be so / This feeling follows me where I go.
Fleetwood Mac, You Make Loving Fun
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.
Malcolm Wallace, Braveheart
Where your treasure is, there will be your heart also.
Harry Potter
Popular love sayings
I promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands. I promise you me.
Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy
I’m afraid once your heart is involved, it all comes out in moron.
Lorelai, a character from Gilmore Girls
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
Most of all, I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my life the way I feel when I’m with you.
Baby, Dirty Dancing
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away.
Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you and I’m home.
Dory, Finding Nemo
Some people are worth melting for.
Olaf, a character from Frozen
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name
Hold my hand and we are halfway there, hold my hand and I’ll take you there.
Maria, a character from West Side Story
The ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.
Johnny Cash
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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When all my dreams come true, the one I want next to me, it’s you.
Lucas, One Tree Hill
The course of true love…gathers no moss.
Margaret Lord to Macaulay Connor, The Philadelphia Story
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Life is not the number of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away.
Dating Coach Alex Hitchens, Hitch
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
The Beatles
Three words. Eight letters. Say it, and I’m yours.
Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl
No matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find a way back to each other.
Leo, The Vow
And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God.
Les Miserables
Deep in my soul, I know that I’m your destiny.
Raven-Symoné, True To Your Heart from Mulan
It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gable
4. Love Sayings
There is only one happiness in life—to love and to be loved.
George Sand
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
Stella Benson
There is no wisdom without love.
N. Sri Ram
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
There is no limit to the power of loving.
John Morton
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
John Lennon
The very essence of love is uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde
Music is Love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
If you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare
Good love sayings and lines
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
Don’t forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Jane Austen
Love is great when you find someone to give it to.
Unknown
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it’s coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker
I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can’t really be felt, truly, by one.
Sean Penn
Unto us all our days are love’s anniversaries, each one in turn hath ripen’d something of our happiness.
Robert Bridges
Two hearts can enlighten the whole world.
Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.
T. Tolis
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Swedenborg
5. Quotes About Love and Life
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness.
Gabrielle Reece
Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me.
Beyoncé
Afflicted by love’s madness all are blind.
Sextus Propertius
Measure your life in love.
Jonathan Larson, Rent
Love tells us many things that are not so.
Ukrainian Proverb
Love is merely madness.
William Shakespeare
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
God loves the world through us.
Mother Theresa
Marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J.D. Salinger
All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
To be loved, be lovable.
Ovid
To live without loving is to not really live.
Molière
Love is letting go of fear.
Gerald Jampolsky
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
Fun sayings about love
We are most alive when we’re in love.
John Updike
I believe in pink…I believe in kissing, kissing a lot…and I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
Audrey Hepburn
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
All’s fair in love and war.
F. E. Smedley
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
Remember that any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
David Levithan
Motherhood—All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Fuller
I was in love with loving.
Saint Augustine
One is very crazy when in love.
Sigmund Freud
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Katherine Hepburn
Even when love isn’t enough, somehow it is.
Stephen King
I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfection.
Taylor Swift
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.
Unknown
Love is the river of life in the world.
Henry Ward Beecher
6. Romantic Love Quotes
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
Turkish Proverb
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Unknown
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by the imagination.
Voltaire
Give all to love obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that is love.
Lana Del Rey
I would find you in any lifetime.
Kanye West
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
I love you right up to the moon—and back.
Sam McBratney, Guess How Much I Love You
Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service?
William Shakespeare
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
Marilyn Monroe
7. Short and Sweet Love Quotes
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare
Love builds bridges where there are none.
R. H. Delaney
Love: two minds without a single thought.
Philip Barry
If you wish to be loved, love.
Seneca
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
George Herbert
Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.
Chinese proverb
At a touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
Leigh Hunt
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
Rumi
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
William Shakespeare
Love isn’t love until you give it away.
John H. MacDonald Jr.
8. Funny Love Quotes
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen
Love is unconditional, relationships are not.
Grant Gudmundson
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
French Proverb
Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn’t show up on X-Rays but you know it’s there.
George Burns
Love me, love my dog.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.
Assyrian Proverb
Be generous in the bedroom. Share your sandwich.
Homer Simpson
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard
True love is singing karaoke ‘Under Pressure’ and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.
Mindy Kaling
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Humorous quotes
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert Einstein
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Bess Myerson
Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.
Will Ferrell
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights.
Egyptian Proverb
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
François de la Rochefoucauld
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
George W. Melville
Love is a kind of military service.
Latin Proverb
Great love affairs start with Champagne…
Honoré de Balzac
It takes two to tangle.
Unknown
Not all who make love, make marriages.
Russian Proverb
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
9. Deep Love Thoughts
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Charles Augustin
Love as Thought is Truth.
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
Vincent Van Gogh
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Rumi
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
John Le Carre
More deep love sayings
Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.
Paulo Coelho
There is no remedy for love than to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis
When love is not madness it is not love.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
All fearful manifestations disappear in the presence of love.
Marianne Williamson
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
10. True Love Quotes
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
John Keats
True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
The road to true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Suess
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
…true love is never blind, but rather brings an added light.
Phoebe Cary
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
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
Francois Rabelais
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
Love is the very essence of life.
Gordon B. Hinckley
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can be denied where it does.
Torquato Tasso
Love is the life of humanity.
Emanuel Swedenborg
11. Cute Love Quotes
There are never enough ‘I love yous’.
Lenny Bruce
Piglet: ‘How do you spell love?’ Pooh: ‘You don’t spell it, you feel it.’
Winnie the Pooh
Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
Louis Auchincloss
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
Two hearts in love need no words.
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Love will find a way.
Unknown
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can’t buy love.
Unknown
Love is quite simply a natural high.
Unknown
We are most alive when we’re in love.
John Updike
In love, one and one are one.
Jean-Paul Sartre
12. Inspiring Love Sayings
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
Barbara De Angelis
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore’ de Balzac
I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
E.M. Forster
Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.
Nicholas Sparks
Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
Henry David Thoreau
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Rabindranath Tagore
More love quotes
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
William Blake
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Shakespeare
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
13. Famous Love Quotations
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
William Shakespeare
Love rules without rules.
Italian Proverb
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
Everything is clearer when you’re in love.
John Lennon
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Benjamin Franklin
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
C. S. Lewis
We are shaped and fashioned by those we love.
Goethe
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
William Shakespeare
We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls gets broken.
Taylor Swift
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
William Blake
With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.
Ilsa Lund, Casablanca
The pleasure of love lasts but a moment. The pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
He who is not impatient is not in love.
Italian Proverb
Old love does not rust.
Latvian Proverb
To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
Madonna
The ones that love us never really leave us.
J.K. Rowling
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann von Goethe
14. Friendship Sayings
Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson
Make a friend when you don’t need one.
Jamaican Proverb
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
Love is friendship caught on fire.
Unknown
We need not think alike to love alike.
Francis David
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To love someone is to identify with them.
Aristotle
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Unknown
No friendship is an accident.
O. Henry
The best mirror is an old friend.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.
Unknown
Friendship is love with understanding.
Ancient Proverb
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasgow
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
Hafiz
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
Miles Franklin
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripedes
Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring the most basic part of love.
Ed Cunningham
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Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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 is something sent from heaven to worry the h— out of you.
Dolly Parton
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
Pablo Neruda
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
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning.
Unknown
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