90 Best Valentine's Day Quotes to Help Express Your Love

There are countless songs, books, and movies dedicated to love—finding it, losing it, and loving yourself—but when it comes to verbally communicating the love you have for the people in your life, we often draw a blank. Whether you experience writer's block or a tied tongue, on Valentine's Day we should all try to overcome the fear of communicating big feelings and tell the people we love that we love them. That's where the best Valentine's Day quotes come in. Love is often the most important feeling for poets, songwriters, and authors. So let the experts do the talking, and lean on the best quotes about love and relationships to complete your card, accompany the perfect gift, or write a caption for Instagram. Whether it's for your significant other or best friend, these quotes for Valentine's Day will help you tell them how much they mean to you.

• "Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same." —Emily Brontë
• "I love her and it is the beginning of everything." —F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." —George Sand
• "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another." —Thomas Merton
• "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." —Robert Frost
• "You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." —Barbara De Angelis
• "Where there is love, there is life." —Mahatma Gandhi
• "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
• "You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars." —e. e. cummings
• "Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will." —Elaine Davis
• "If I know what love is, it is because of you." —Hermann Hesse
• "Love is friendship that has caught on fire." —Ann Landers
• "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." —J.R.R. Tolkien
• "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where."—Pablo Neruda
• "As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." —John Green
  
• "To love at all is to be vulnerable." —C. S. Lewis
  
• "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." —Zelda Fitzgerald
• "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
• "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• "I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you." —Paulo Coelho
• "We are most alive when we are in love." —John Updike
• "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
• "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." —David Viscott
• "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." —Plato
• "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
• "If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets." —Haruki Murakami
• "Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." —Robert Heinlein
• "And suddenly all the love songs were about you." —Unknown
• "You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love in spite of the fact that they're not." —Jodi Picoult
  
• "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
  
• "Love is like the wind. You can't see it, but you can feel it." —Nicholas Sparks
• "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet." —Katharine Lee Bates
• "Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." —Robert Browning
• "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
  
• "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
• "A simple 'I love you' means more than money." —Frank Sinatra
  
• "They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered." —F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
  
• "You bring the chocolates, and I will bring the candles. Let’s stay in tonight and make some magic happen." —Unknown
  
• "Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." —Franklin P. Jones
  
• "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." —Helen Keller
  
• "Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday." —Eva Gabor
  
• "Romance is the icing, but love is the cake." —Unknown
• "Our love will bloom always fairer, / Fresher, more gracious, / Because it is a true love" —Honoré de Balzac
• "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, The Alchemist
• "Love is like a friendship caught on fire." —Jeremy Taylor
• "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
• "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." —Mignon McLaughlin
  
• "You can’t blame gravity for falling in love." —Albert Einstein
  
• "When you are in love / You can't fall asleep / Because reality is finally better than your dreams." —Dr. Seuss
• "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." —Audrey Hepburn
• "The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now." —Rick Warren
• "What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?" —George Eliot, Adam Bede
• "It's amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and suddenly you can't remember how you lived without them." —Anurag Prakash Ray
• "Love is Light, that enlightens those who give and receive it." —Albert Einstein

• "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." —Charles M. Schulz
• "Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you." —Dolly Parton
• "Marriage is like vitamins: We supplement each other's minimum daily requirements." —Kathy Mohnke
• "It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them." —Agatha Christie
• "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." —Joan Crawford
  
• "Today is Valentine's Day—or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!" —Jay Leno
• "I love being married. It's so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." —Rita Rudner
• "Love is a grave mental disease." —Plato
• "Without Valentine's Day, February would be...well, January." —Jim Gaffigan
• "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." —Pearl Bailey
• "Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position." —Christopher Marlowe
• "If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?" —Lily Tomlin
• "Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates." —Fernando Pessoa
• "Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties." —Jules Renard
  
• "When love is not madness, it is not love." —Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  
• "The heart has its reason of which reason knows nothing." —Blaise Pascal

• "I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you." — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
  
• "I love you for making me better by loving me. Be my valentine." —Unknown
• "Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." —e. e. cummings
• "Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So, today is my new favorite day." —Winnie the Pooh
• "You're something between a dream and a miracle." —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "You stole my heart from day one, and I think you should keep it for a lifetime." —Unknown
• "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach." —Elizabeth Barret Browning
  
• "When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you, and I'm home." —Dory in Finding Nemo
• "People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love." —Dr. Seuss
  
• "You are every lovely word I could think of." —Unknown
• "Love at the lips was touch, / As sweet as I could bear; / And once that seemed too much; / I lived on air."
  — Robert Frost, To Earthward
• "You don't marry the person you can live with—you marry the person you can't live without." —Unknown
  
• "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more." —Jane Austen, Emma
• "Walking with your hands in mine and mine in yours—that's exactly where I want to be always." —Fawn Weaver
  
• "And suddenly all the love songs were about you." —Unknown
• "To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness." —Robert Brault
  
• "Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat." —Joanne Woodward
  
• "I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes." —Unknown
  
• "Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." —Anonymous

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