It’s nearing the most romantic day of the year. And if you’re in need of an extra special way to tell someone that you love them, then check out these Valentine’s Day quotes about love. Whether your lover adores books, movies, or music, there’ll be a quote to sweep them off their feet. So, check out the best and most romantic Valentine’s Day quotes about love now!
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Valentine’s Day Quotes From Books
“I didn’t know you this morning, and now I don’t remember not knowing you.”
– The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
“If we had our entire lives ahead of us I bet you’d get tired of me telling you how much I love you because I’m positive that’s the path we were heading on. But because we’re about to die, I want to say it as many times as I want—I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.”
– They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
“I’m not going far. I’ll always be here. Just an inch away. I promise.”
– Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
“I thought, this is the most incredible thing I have ever seen, and I had better keep it a safe distance away from me. I thought, if someone like that ever loved me, it would set me on fire. And then I was a careless fool, and I fell in love with you anyway.”
– Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
“I’ve been happy alone and I’ve been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
“Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
“You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
“But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, ‘She’s nothing to you’, the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
“He says she is his émerveillement. He says he will never leave her, not in a million years.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
“I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, I can’t do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl
“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
“You’d rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”
“Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
― Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Valentine’s Day Quotes From Movies & TV Shows
“I want all of you, forever. You and me, every day.”
– Ryan Gosling (Noah), The Notebook
“I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”
– Julia Roberts (Anna Scott) – Notting Hill
“You had me at hello.”
– Renée Zellweger (Dorothy), Jerry Maguire
“I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly.”
– Meg Ryan (Kathleen Kelly), You’ve Got Mail
“I like you very much. Just as you are.”
– Colin Firth (Mark Darcy), Bridget Jones’s Diary
“I can’t see anything I don’t like about you.”
– Jim Carey (Joel), Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
“To me, you are perfect.”
– Andrew Lincoln (Mark), Love Actually
“You said you couldn’t be with someone who didn’t believe in you. Well, I believed in you. I just didn’t believe in me.”
– Andrew McCarthy (Blane), Pretty In Pink
“I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met.”
– Dermot Mulroney (Nick Mercer), The Wedding Date
“Is it still raining? I hadn’t noticed.”
– Andie MacDowell (Carrie), Four Weddings And A Funeral
“You don’t have to understand. You just have to have faith… faith in destiny.”
– Kate Beckinsdale (Sara), Serendipity
“Love is patient, love is kind, love means slowly losing your mind.”
– James Marsden (Kevin), 27 Dresses
“In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find someone who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you.”
– JK Simmons (Mac MacGuff), Juno
“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”
– Carey Elwes (Westley), The Princess Bride
“It’s like in that moment the whole universe existed just to bring us together.”
– John Cusack (Jonathan Trager), Serendipity
“You’re the first boy I ever kissed, Jake, and I want you to be the last.”
– Reese Witherspoon (Melanie), Sweet Home Alabama
“Choose me. Marry me. Let me make you happy.”
– Julia Roberts (Julieanne ) – My Best Friend’s Wedding
“You make me happy. Even when you’re awful, I would rather be with you, even the you that you seem to think is diminished, than with anyone else in the world.”
– Emilia Clarke (Lou Clark), Me Before You
“Because you saw me when I was invisible.”
– Anne Hathaway (Mia), The Princess Diaries
“It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together… and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home… only to no home I’d ever known… I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like… magic.”
– Tom Hanks (Sam), Sleepless In Seattle
“You can’t lose something you never had!”
– Kate Hudson (Andie), How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
“Thank you, I love you. I knew it the minute I met you. I’m sorry it took so long for me to catch up.”
– Bradley Cooper (Pat), Silver Linings Playbook
“Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing.”
– Hilary Duff (Sam), A Cinderella Story
“If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.”
– Ryan Gosling (Noah), The Notebook
“You complete me.”
― Tom Cruise (Jerry Maguire), Jerry Maguire
“I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.”
– Jennifer Grey (Baby), Dirty Dancing
“To me, you are perfect.”
― Andrew Lincoln (Mark), Love Actually
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”
― Matthew Macfadyen (Mr. Darcy), Pride and Prejudice
“It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other.“
― Robbin Williams (Dr. Sean Maguire), Good Will Hunting
“Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together… and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home… only to no home I’d ever known… I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like… magic.“
―Tom Hanks (Sam Baldwin), Sleepless in Seattle
“Maybe it is our imperfections which make us so perfect for one another.“
― Jeremy Northam (Mr Knightly), Emma
“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”
― Meryl Streep (Clarissa Vaughan), The Hours
”Dearest Kevin, I wish I could promise you the world, but the world is not mine to give. What I can promise you is my world, because it would be empty without you.“
― Vanessa Hudgens (Margaret), The Princess Switch 2
“I feel like once you know someone is there for you and once you know they love you, you never actually think of them again.”
― Zendaya (Marie), Malcolm & Marie
“Relationships are just too difficult.”
― PAL, The Mitchells vs. The Machines
“We have a real connection. A rare and intense attachment.”
― Jessie Buckley (Young Woman), I’m Thinking of Ending Things
“Personality. I mean that’s what keeps a relationship going throughout the years.”
― Johnny Lee Miller (Simon ‘Sick Boy’ Williamson), Trainspotting
“In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find someone who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you.”
― J. K. Simmons (Mac), Juno
“If I had to dream up the perfect woman, she wouldn’t even come close to you.”
― Ben Savage (Cory Matthews), Boy Meets World
“Maybe I do believe it, all this ‘meant to be’ stuff. Why not believe it, really? Who doesn’t want more romance in their life? Maybe it’s just up to us to make it happen. To show up and be meant for each other.”
― Ellen Pompeo (Meredith Grey), Greys Anatomy
“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.”
― Billy Crystal (Harry), When Harry Met Sally
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.”
― Jake Gyllenhaal (Jamie Randall), Love & Other Drugs
Valentine’s Day Quotes About Love From Songs
“When I see your face, there’s not a thing that I would change ’cause you’re amazing just the way you are.”
– Just The Way You Are, Bruno Mars
“You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.”
– Mine, Taylor Swift
“There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love.”
– Make You Feel My Love, Adele
“Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.”
– Can’t Help Falling in Love, Elvis Presley
“I won’t hesitate. No more, no more. It cannot wait, I’m yours.”
– I’m Yours, Jason Mraz
Take me into your lovin’ arms. Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars.”
– Thinking Out Loud, Ed Sheeran
“You know it’s true. Everything I do, I do it for you.”
– Everything I Do, Bryan Adams
“I never loved someone; The way that I loved you.”
― Fallin’, Alicia Keys
“You know I’d never ask you to change; If perfect’s what you’re searching for then just stay the same.”
― Just the Way You Are, Bruno Mars
“We’ve been together for a decade now; Still everyday I’m lovin’ you more; If I could do it all again; I’d probably do it all the same as before“
― 10 Years, Daði Freyr
“Love can touch us one time; And last for a lifetime; And never let go ’til we’re gone.”
― My Heart Will Go On, Celine Dion
“So lovely, it feels so right; I want to hold you close.“
― Tear You Apart, She Wants Revenge
“I hope you don’t mind; That I put down in words; How wonderful life is while you’re in the world.”
― Your Song, Elton John
“I feel like all these people in this room; Don’t shine like you; If I could bottle you up; I would sip ya like cosmic juice.”
― Starstruck, Years & Years
“You don’t have to say you love me; I just wanna tell you somethin’; Lately you’ve been on my mind.”
― Adore You, Harry Styles
“You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.”
― Mine, Taylor Swift
“Whenever I’m alone with you; You make me feel like I am home again.”
― Lovesong, The Cure
“All of my standards are set to you; Like the moon spinning around the earth.”
― Heart Attack, Chuu (LOONA)
“Love is all you need.“
― All You Need is Love, The Beatles
“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone?”
― Counting Crows, Big Yellow Taxi
“And suddenly you’re all I need, the reason why I smile.”
― Smile, Avril Lavigne
“You’re my downfall, you’re my muse; My worst distraction, my rhythm and blues; I can’t stop singing, it’s ringing, in my head for you.”
― All of Me, John Legend
“One love, one heart.“
― One Love, Bob Marley
“Love me tender, Love me long; Take me to your heart; For it’s there that I belong; And we’ll never part.“
― Love Me Tender, Elvis Presley
“I want to stand with you on a mountain, I want to bathe with you in the sea, I want to lay like this forever. Until the sky falls down on me.”
― Truly, Madly, Deeply, Savage Garden
“Some day, when I’m awfully low, when the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you and the way you look tonight.“
― The Way You Look Tonight, Frank Sinatra
“Here’s to you, the one that always pulls us through, always do what you gotta do. You’re one of a kind. Thank God you’re mine.“
― Close Your Eyes, Michael Bublé
“Hit me like a ray of sun burning through my darkest night. You’re the only one that I want. Think I’m addicted to your light.”
― Halo, Beyoncé
“You must have known that I was lonely because you came to my rescue, and I know that this must be heaven. How could so much love be inside of you?”
― You Are The Sunshine of My Life, Stevie Wonder
Valentine’s Day Quotes About Love by Famous People
“To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.”
― Mark Twain
“Love is a game that two can play and both can win.”
― Eva Gabor
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
— Carl Jung
“Maybe you don’t need the whole world to love you. Maybe you just need one person.”
— Kermit the Frog
“Happily ever after is not a fairy tale—it’s a choice.”
— Fawn Weaver
“The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.”
— Josiah G. Holland
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard—they must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.”
— Leo F. Buscaglia
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
— Henry Winkler
“I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.”
— Julia Roberts
“In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.”
— Taylor Swift
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson
“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours, if they don’t they never were.”
— Richard Bach
Valentine’s Day Quotes For Your Friends
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.“
— Hubert H Humprey
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.“
— Walter Winchell
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.“
— Bill Watterson
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.“
— Euripides
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.“
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.“
— Len Wein
“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.“
— William Butler Yeats
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.“
— Thomas Aquinas
