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Quotes on love that hit the spot.
It’s hard to find the words. Love is something we feel but don’t see. It comes in as many manifestations as there are hearts to beat for it. These quotes on love collect wisdom on the subject from some of history’s most talented wordsmiths to help us express this wonderous feeling.
Use these quotes in cards or letters, posters or banners, or collages of quotes and photos. Organized from falling in love quotes to “love thyself” mantras, these quotes on love cover the gamut.
Falling in love quotes.
The first chapter is the moment we fall in love. That phrase itself captures part of its wonder: just as suddenly as we “fall ill” or “fall down,” we fall in love. These falling-in-love quotes put that sensation into other words. Some of them reflect the act of falling in love mutually. Others stoke the fire of an unrequited love.
For the most part, these quotes offer little capsules of that warm feeling that flushes around our hearts and lungs when we fall. Choose the quote that sums up your experience — and don’t be shy to use it in a card or letter to the one you’ve fallen for.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Dr. Seuss
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Metaphors like this one go well on posters because they’re short and they lend themselves to rich imagery.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
Ingrid Bergman
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
Barbara De Angelis
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.”
Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
Madeline Miller, Circe
Swoon. I'll catch you.”
The English Patient
Some falling in love quotes can be an invitation to fall with the assurance that someone is there to catch you.
Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.”
Theodore Roethke
Your hand touching mine. This is how galaxies collide.”
Sanober Khan
Use this short quote in a card and elaborate your feelings with a handwritten letter to accompany it.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.”
Helen Rowland
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
Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make.”
Hussein Nishah
Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.”
Waylon Jennings
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
Zora Neale Hurston
Once you tell someone you love them, you automatically give that person the right to hurt you, and yet you place a trust in them that they won’t tear you apart.”
Abhishek Tiwari
Vulnerability is a recurring theme in quotes about falling in love.
No one ever fell in love without being a little bit brave.”
Mario Tomasello
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Love of my life quotes.
People also fall in love more than once. There are childhood loves and first loves, then an adult life with its own path of companionship. There’s only one “love of your life,” though, and when you meet that person, only these love of my life quotes will do.
Choose from these inspirational quotes to send a powerful message. Then, Adobe Express can help you use it in any letter, card, or collage that will be perfect for the moment.
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
True love is inexhaustible. The more you give, the more you have.”
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When you want to celebrate your one true love — at a birthday, or on Valentine’s Day, or on an anniversary — this quote can be used on a banner to set the scene.
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
Maybe you don't need the whole world to love you, you know. Maybe you just need one person.”
Kermit the Frog
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
It’s an extraordinary thing when two people can support the other so entirely that both are securely suspended in love. This quote goes well in a card or letter.
If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
Haruki Murakami
People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
Leo Christopher
I do love nothing in the world so well as you.”
William Shakespeare,
Much Ado About Nothing
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Emily Brontë
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
I love you begins by I, but it ends up by you.”
Charles de Leusse
This short quote about true love is quirky — perhaps corny, too — and can be highly sharable in a social media post.
Cause all of me loves all of you. Love your curves and all your edges. All your perfect imperfections. Give your all to me. I’ll give my all to you. You’re my end and my beginning.”
John Legend
Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
If there’s only one true love for each of us in a lifetime, then the use of hyperbole makes these quotes that much better.
Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.”
Bob Marley
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.”
Margaret Anderson
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Funny quotes on love.
Sometimes love has us tied up in knots. It frequently has us confused. When the going gets rough — or simply too wonderful to stand — the only device left is laughter. Funny quotes on love give us the chance to release some of that nervous energy and touch on some of the quirky things about this shared experience.
Funny love quotes are often seen often in cards and letters on Valentine’s Day. They’re also passed around social media. You can also use them on banners and posters, too, because it’s worth making a show of getting a laugh.
Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.”
George Burns
True love is singing karaoke Under Pressure and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.”
Mindy Kaling
I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.”
Elizabeth Evans
Use this funny love quote on a banner and hang it over the coffee pot one morning. Or put it on a poster that can live in the kitchen.
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
Franklin P. Jones
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?”
Lily Tomlin
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.”
Robert Fulghum
Imagine what photos of you and the one you love could go around this quote in a collage — some probably capture weird moments that only you and your love will understand.
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.”
Pearl Bailey
Love is sharing your popcorn.”
Charles M. Schultz
Love is like pi — natural, irrational, and very important.”
Lisa Hoffman
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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, Me: Stories of My Life
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
What ridiculous moment made you love someone even more? Write about it in a letter.
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”
Bertrand Russell
A two-part quote like this one is perfect for the face and the inside of a card.
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
Arrigo Boito
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.”
Elvis Presley
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Lasting love quotes.
The love that’s been around the block responds to different kinds of quotes. They’ve graduated from the falling to the fallen, from gazing at another to looking toward the horizon of a life together. Most classic love you quotes have already been shared over the many holidays and occasions. So, how do you recognize that love and still send a heartfelt message?
Take your pick of these lasting love quotes and put your love into words that endure — just like the two of you.
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
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, Winnie the Pooh
True love stories never have endings.”
Richard Bach
Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
Carroll Bryant
A little humility goes a long way in lasting love. This quote unabashedly tells it how it is: love is work. Yet, progress is always being made.
He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
Euripides
You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
Oscar Wilde
I never want to stop making memories with you.”
Pierre Jeanty
Use this quote in a letter as an introduction to some of your own treasured memories.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
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
If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you.”
DeAnna Anderson
When I look into your eyes, I know I have found the mirror of my soul.”
Joey W. Hill
You know how they say that, over time, couples start to look like one another? Perhaps their souls do, too.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
I love you and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
Claudia Adrienne Grandi
The visuals next to this quote could be stunning. Use it in a poster or collage.
Because of you, I can feel myself slowly, but surely, becoming the me I have always dreamed of being.”
Tyler Knott Gregson
I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
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Short love quotes.
Short love quotes: could this be the domain of short-lived love? No, these are love quotes that make succinct points about love. These are just what you need for banners, posters, or social media posts where space is limited.
It’s taken the cleverest writers and personalities to come up with love quotes that hit home, and these short love quotes do so instantaneously.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
Plato
...Especially with the perfect short love quotes.
Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”
Rumi
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Robert Frost
Who, being loved, is poor?”
Oscar Wilde
Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
David Viscott
You can almost feel this quote wash over you. Picture it in a card or letter. What would you add in the margins?
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo
Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.”
Truman Capote
You’re nothing short of my everything.”
Ralph Block
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
Audrey Hepburn
This quote can send a heartfelt message on a banner for an anniversary party.
We loved with a love that was more than love.”
Edgar Allen Poe, Annabel Lee
I think I'd miss you even if we never met.”
Nick Mercer (Dermot Mulroney),
The Wedding Date
Love is being stupid together.”
Paul Valery
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I love you — I am at rest with you — I have come home.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
If you were looking for a new way to say “I love you” in a card, this is it.
No one ever fell in love gracefully.”
Connie Brockway
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romance AND memories, wishes
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“It's complicated” love quotes.
Love is messy. We sometimes fall in love with the wrong person or fall in love at the wrong time. Love is often unrequited, and when it is returned, it can be painful. Not every case of love fits into the Valentine’s Day mold.
These quotes talk about love inclusively. They send messages for those who are hurting, or confused, or feeling judged by everyone on the outside. Choose the quote that strikes the right notes and love will continue to rule the day — but by your definition.
I think...if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
Paulo Coelho
When your love leaves you unsure what to say or what to think, this quote puts it into words.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.”
Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII
I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”
William Shakespeare,
Much Ado About Nothing
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.”
Publilius Syrus
Is it ever wrong to love?
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
Marilyn Monroe
Yes, love can be wondrously complicated, it can be confusing, and it can be terrifying. But if it wasn’t all those things, then it isn’t love.”
N.R. Hart
A card with this quote can represent the commitment of working past problems together for the sake of love.
Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn’t make it better.”
Shannon A. Thompson,
Death Before Daylight
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
Pablo Neruda, XVII (I do not love you...)
We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Maybe it’s not your own love this reflects, but a friend’s. When people accept less than what they deserve, this quote can be a wake-up call.
They say if the love is true, then it’s easy. But that’s false. Love is complicated. It’s sticky. It’s bliss and it’s a mix of emotions. It’s not easy.”
Dominic Riccitello
In vain have I 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
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Lost love quotes.
Heartbreak is as universal in love as love itself. At some point, most love comes to an end. Lost love quotes capture the pain and bottle it. They lock step with a plan to move on, even if they still drag the remnants of the hurt behind them.
In Spanish, heartbreak is called “desamor,” or the “undoing” of love, as though love were a pair of shoelaces whose knot falls out of place. These lost love quotes describe that feeling in deeply relatable ways.
In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing.”
Jack Kornfield
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
Washington Irving
'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
All this time you’ve known the saying but probably didn’t know who said it. Use this lost love quote in a letter to help someone move on.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
Andre Gide
There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
Helen Keller
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
Henry Miller
Part of what hurts most in lost love is the lack of control. No one can make someone else fall in love. What we do control, though, is how much love we give. This quote offers a path forward.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
Joan Crawford
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them.”
Caroline Myss
You can send this lost love quote to a friend in a social media graphic to say “good riddance” of a lost love who was bad news.
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
Anais Nin
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.”
Nan Goldin
There is an ocean of silence between us…and I am drowning in it.”
Ranata Suzuki
When a lost love could still be saved, this message can be used in a card or letter.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Kahlil Gibran
I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.”
Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour
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Love yourself quotes.
You have to love yourself before you can love another. Learn these quotes about loving yourself and commit your favorite ones to memory. Consider using one of them on a poster to act as a reminder you probably need.
The more you love yourself, the more you’ll have to give of yourself to the person you love. Choose the love yourself quote you think you could turn into a personal mantra.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Buddha
This has been my life; I found it worth living.”
Bertrand Russell
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”
William Shakespeare, King Henry V
We can only learn to love by loving.”
Iris Murdoch
This message can go on a poster just about anywhere. It’s not limited to self-love, or even romantic love. It’s about the value of love in general.
Love yourself first and everything falls into line.”
Lucille Ball
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo
As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow.”
Charlie Chaplin
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”
Sally Field
When we realize that self-love simply means seeing ourselves like we see others, it makes it easier.
Happiness is an inside job. Don't assign anyone else that much power over your life.”
Mandy Hale
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.”
M. Scott Peck
Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.”
Suzy Kassem
This quote fits perfectly into a social graphic. What context could you add if you shared this message with your friends and followers?
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde
Self-care is never a selfish act — it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.”
Parker Palmer
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
Mark Twain
Who could benefit from seeing this message in a card or letter?
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
Charles Bukowski
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
Marilyn Monroe
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Love is all around.
These love quotes focus a lot on romantic love, but they aren’t all exclusive to it. Look at your favorite love quotes and pick the ones that make you think of:
- Your love for a parent
- Your love for a sibling
- Your love for a friend
- Your love for a mentor or leader
- Your love for a pet
That’s the funny thing about love: in English, we have just one word for it. In Spanish, there are two words to choose from (querer and amar). Ancient Greek had between four and six words, depending on who you ask. Sanskrit has 96 words for love.
Use these quotes about love any way you can. The world can never have too much love. Pick your favorites, then Adobe Express can help you turn them into cards, letters, banners, posters, collages, social posts, and more.
Exercise: An exercise in vulnerability.
In love, we make ourselves vulnerable. That means we open ourselves up to possible hurt to let love in.
Are you good at making yourself vulnerable? Do you open up too much, or not at all?
Many of the love quotes here touch on vulnerability, but they also talk about courage. These qualities are two sides of the same coin.
Whether it’s romantic love, a past love, or other kinds of love, there are quotes in this list that fit. Pick the quotes that make you think of specific people, then consider how you could share the quote with them. Would your crush be receptive to a card? Could a friend get warm and fuzzies if tagged in a social post?
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Adobe Express has templates and customization tools to put your favorite love quotes to work. If you want to use love quotes in cards, letters, posters, banners, collages, or other creative projects, Adobe Express makes it as simple as picking a template and personalizing it, or making your own idea with easy-to-use tools. Whatever message you want to create, Adobe Express brings it to life, no experience required.
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