Every day is a chance to reaffirm our commitment and affection towards those with whom we are in romantic relationships. However, on February 14th of each year, people get a chance to honor their love for each other by sending gifts, flowers, and messages of love. The ritual of showing love and affection to those we care about has a long-standing history, originating way back from the Roman festival of Lupercalia, held in mid-February.
While we are all looking forward to Valentine’s day, not all of us are good with words. You may find yourself lacking the inspiration as to what exactly to tell someone how much you care about them. Don’t panic — here you can find some of the best Valentine’s Day quotes of all time. They can help you express your emotions and profess your love.
The Greatest Romantic Valentine’s Day Quotes of All Time
Valentine’s day is a great occasion to celebrate your love. Most of all, it is a chance to express all the feelings you have and to tell the person you love how much you care for them. Here are some quotes that have stood the test of time and that can be ideal for that Valentine’s day card.
- “There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.” — George Sand, Author
- “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
- “Valentine’s Day is the poet’s holiday.” – Ted Kooser, Poet
- “The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat—soft and persistent, underlying everything.” – Becky Albertalli
- “I would have come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.” — Leigh Bardugo
- “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” – Leo Christopher
- “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller, Philologist
- “The art of love…is largely the art of persistence.” – Albert Ellis, Psychologist
- “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
- “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
- “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.” – Plato
- “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” — Sophocles
- “I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night.” – Nora Ephron
- “Love is something eternal … The aspect may change but not the essence.” Vincent Van Gogh
Romantic Valentine’s Day Quotes for Her
Valentine’s day is the one day of the year when everyone is allowed to be totally, insanely, and unashamedly in love and shout it out from the rooftops.
Here are some great Valentine quotes for her:
- “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
- “I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
- “I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates.” — Maya Angelou
- “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” — Leo Christopher
- “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” — William Shakespeare
- “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt the truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.” — William Shakespeare
- “I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Paulo Coelho
- “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning, Poet
- “I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.” — Cassandra Clare
- “I won’t give up on us, even if the skies get rough.” — Jason Mraz
- “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” — Loretta Young
- “Darling I wake up just to sleep with you / I open my eyes so I could see with you / And I live so I can die with you.” — Beyoncé Knowles
- “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” — Haruki Murakami
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “I know of only one duty, and that is to love.” — Albert Camus
Romantic Valentine’s Day Quotes for Him
Whether you are looking to send a romantic or playful message to your loved one, you can never go wrong with these great Valentine’s Day quotes.
- “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
- “I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.” — Taylor Swift
- “If you work through the tough times, the respect and love that you feel deepens.” — 44th U.S. President Barack Obama
- “To love and be loved is to the feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
- “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” — Andre Breton
- “Where there is great love, there are always wishes.” — Willa Cather
- “If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” — Maya Angelou
- “Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Bronte
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse
- “You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered.” — Nicholas Sparks
- “I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you.” — John Legend
- “I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
- “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you.” — Beth Pearson
Inspirational Valentine’s Day Quotes
Love is chemical, elusive, and ephemeral. Sometimes, it can be so powerful that we struggle to find the best words to describe our feelings. Here are some great Valentine quotes to inspire you this Valentine’s Day.
- “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 love at all is to be vulnerable.” — C.S. Lewis
- “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
- “Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
- “Love is the whole thing. We are only the pieces.” — Rumi
- “Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.” — Audre Lorde
- “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
- “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
- “Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.” — Nicholas Sparks
- “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
- “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
- “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” — Pablo Picasso
- “Love is friendship that has caught fire.” — Ann Landers
Valentine’s day is specifically dedicated to telling and showing those we love how we feel. It allows even the most timid of persons to celebrate love in its purest forms. Not sure how to express your feelings? Use the amazing quotes we gathered here for inspiration. Also, if you or someone you know is going through relationship challenges and would like to get professional advice, consider online counseling.
Kate has a B.S. in Psychology and M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and has worked in healthcare since 2017. She primarily treated depression, anxiety, eating disorders, trauma, and grief, as well as identity, relationship and adjustment issues. Her clinical experience has focused on individual and group counseling, emergency counseling and outreach.
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