Love Quotes That Get Me Every Time

Inside: A curated collection of classic, funny, and timeless love quotes from books, movies, songs, and Scripture—words that manage to say it just right.

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I’m not an especially sappy girl by nature. Most of the time, I’m more practical than poetic, and I’m not great at finding the exact right words for big feelings.

But then I watch a good rom-com. Or I come across a love quote that hits me just right. And I’m done. I believe movie love does exist.

This time of year, I’m not the only one searching for the right way to explain a feeling that’s almost unexplainable. A way to say exactly what love is… how powerful it can feel, how comforting it can be, and how deeply it can change you, all at once.

So I pulled together a collection of love quotes that give me that “I believe in true love” feeling. Some are classic, some are funny, and a few come from books, movies, songs, and Scripture—but all of them speak straight to the heart.

Classic Love Quotes.

• “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” —Audrey Hepburn
• “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.” —Robert Browning
• “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” —Wuthering Heights

“Love is friendship that has caught fire.” —Ann Landers

• “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
• “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “There is always some madness in love.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

• “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
• “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” —David Viscott
• “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle
• “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” —Rumi

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” —Bertrand Russell

• “Love recognizes no barriers… to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou
• “We loved with a love that was more than love.” —Edgar Allan Poe
• “Love grows by giving.” —Elbert Hubbard
• “Where there is love there is life.” —Mahatma Gandhi

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Simple Love Quotes.

• “Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” —Elaine Davis
• “Love is not something you find. Love is something that finds you.” —Loretta Young
• “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person.” —E. Leventhal

• “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Franklin P. Jones
• “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” —Pablo Picasso
• “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” —George Moore

• “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss
• “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.” —Alfred Tennyson
• “My heart beats faster as you take my hand, my love grows stronger as you touch my soul.” —A.C. Van Cherub

“I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.” —Roy Croft

• “Whatever happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I’m happy now, because I love you.” —Groundhog Day
• “Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” —Walter Winchell

Love Quotes That Aren’t Cheesy.

• “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect; you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” —Jodi Picoult
• “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” —Joan Crawford
• “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” —Jess C. Scott
• “Real love shows up when it’s inconvenient.” —Unknown

“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

• “Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” —Jean Anouilh
• “Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.” —Pierre de Beaumarchais
• “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” —Robert A. Heinlein
• “Love doesn’t need to be loud to be strong.” —Unknown

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Funny Love Quotes.

• “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” —Charles M. Schulz
• “Marriage is finding that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” —Rita Rudner
• “I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.” —Elizabeth Evans
• “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.” —Will Ferrell

• “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
• “Love is being stupid together.” —Paul Valéry
• “Marriage is not just spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash.” —Joyce Brothers

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Movie Love Quotes.

• “You make me want to be a better man.” —As Good as It Gets
• “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.” —The Notebook
• “To me, you are perfect.” —Love Actually
• “It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, meant we were supposed to be together.” —Sleepless in Seattle
• “I love you. You… you complete me.” —Jerry Maguire

• “You are my greatest adventure.” —The Incredibles
• “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” —Notting Hill
• “I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” —The Lord of the Rings
• “I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met.” —The Wedding Date
• “Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you.” —Meet Joe Black

Song Lyrics About Love.

• “Take my hand, take my whole life too, for I can’t help falling in love with you.” —Elvis Presley
• “You’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be.” —Goo Goo Dolls
• “Well, I found a girl, beautiful and sweet; Oh, I never knew you were the someone waiting for me.” —Ed Sheeran

“At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.” —Etta James

• “Your love is better than ice cream, better than anything else I’ve tried.” —Sarah McLachlan
• “You’re my end and my beginning.” —John Legend
• “All you need is love.” —The Beatles

• “And all along I believed I would find you; Time has brought your heart to me, I have loved you for a thousand years, I’ll love you for a thousand more” —Christina Perri
• “You fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, Ease my trouble, that’s what you do.” —Rod Stewart
• “‘Cause you make me feel so brand new, and I want to spend my life with you.” — Al Green

“You know I’d never ask you to change. If perfect’s what you’re searchin’ for, then just stay the same.” —Bruno Mars

• “I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words, how wonderful life is while you’re in the world.” —Elton John
• “And darling I will be loving you ’til we’re 70. And baby my heart could still fall as hard at 23.” —Ed Sheeran

Bible Verses About Love.

• “Love is patient and kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.” —1 Corinthians 13:4
• “I have found the one whom my soul loves.” —Song of Solomon 3:4
• “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” —1 Corinthians 13:7
• “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” —John 13:34

“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” —Ephesians 4:2

• “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” —1 Peter 4:8
• “Let all that you do be done in love.” —1 Corinthians 16:14
• “Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away.” —Song of Solomon 8:7
• “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” —1 Corinthians 13:13

A Few Final Favorites.

• “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
• “Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” —Jeanne Moreau
• “A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.” —Beena Khan
• “It’s a profoundly strange feeling, to stumble across someone whose desires are shaped so closely to your own, like reaching toward your reflection in a mirror and finding warm flesh under your fingertips. If you should ever be lucky enough to find that magical, fearful symmetry, I hope you’re brave enough to grab it with both hands and not let go.”
  —Alix E. Harrow

• “I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer.” —Corinne Michaels
• “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
  —Leo Christopher
• “Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice.” —Robert Sexton
• “True love stories never have endings.”
  —Richard Bach

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I don’t think love is always about grand gestures or perfectly chosen words. Most of the time, it’s in the everyday moments, inside jokes, and the comfort of knowing someone’s always got your back.

Still, I’m clearly a sucker for a good love quote. And if that makes me a little sappy—at least I get to hang on to my girl card.

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