Valentine’s Day is a celebration of love, a day to cherish and express heartfelt emotions to that special someone in your life. Whether you’re a hopeless romantic, a long-time partner, or someone experiencing the magic of love for the first time, words have a way of perfectly encapsulating what’s in our hearts.
Quotes about love can inspire, comfort, and bring a smile to our faces. To help you craft the perfect message, we’ve gathered 145+ Valentine’s Day quotes that capture the essence of timeless love.
From literary musings and heartfelt declarations to poetic reflections, this list covers a wide range of quotes that will speak to lovers of all kinds. Use these words in a Valentine’s Day card, share them in a heartfelt text, or simply savor them as a celebration of the beauty of love.
145+ Valentine’s Day Quotes for Timeless Love to Inspire Your Heart
Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate love in all its forms, and these 145+ quotes offer a rich collection of words to inspire your heart and express your feelings.
Whether you’re quoting a timeless poet, sharing a romantic line from a movie, or simply finding a few words that perfectly capture your emotions, the right quote can make your Valentine’s Day message unforgettable.
Let these quotes remind you of the beauty, passion, and joy of timeless love as you celebrate this special day.
- “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
- “You are my today and all of my tomorrows.” – Leo Christopher
- “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë
- “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
- “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
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
- “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
- “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect; you love them in spite of their imperfections.” – Jodi Picoult
- “Love is not about how many days, months, or years you’ve been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.”
- “Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
- “I am yours, don’t give myself back to me.” – Rumi
- “A life lived in love will never be dull.” – Leo Buscaglia
- “You will forever be my always.”
- “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” – Victor Hugo
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.”
- “I wish I had done everything on Earth with you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Time may pass, but my love for you is timeless.”
- “When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito
- “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” – Rumi
- “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” – T. Tolis
- “Your love is a melody that my heart will always dance to.”
- “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).” – E.E. Cummings
- “Love is not about how much you say ‘I love you,’ but how much you prove that it’s true.”
- “You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” – E.E. Cummings
- “Love isn’t finding someone you can live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without.”
- “Our love is written in the stars and sealed with a kiss.”
- “My heart is, and always will be, yours.” – Jane Austen
- “In your smile, I see something more beautiful than the stars.” – Beth Revis
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
- “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “You make me want to be a better man.” – Melvin Udall (from As Good as It Gets)
- “I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” – Gabriel García Márquez
- “I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.”
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
- “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire
- “My love for you is a journey, starting at forever and ending at never.”
- “When I follow my heart, it leads me to you.”
- “A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.”
- “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” – Jane Austen
- “Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity.” – Truth Devour
- “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” – Henry Miller
- “To me, you are perfect.” – Love Actually
- “Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
- “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
- “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland
- “When I’m with you, hours feel like seconds. When we’re apart, days feel like years.”
- “You are the one I have waited for my entire life, and I’ll love you for all of mine.”
- “Love is the poetry of the senses.” – Honoré de Balzac
- “I love you, not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft
- “The heart has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of.” – Blaise Pascal
- “When I follow my heart, it always leads me back to you.”
- “In your arms, I’ve found my home.”
- “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.” – George Sand
- “I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over, without pause, without doubt, in a heartbeat.”
- “Your love is my compass, guiding me through life’s journey.”
- “Forever is a long time, but I wouldn’t mind spending it by your side.”
- “Love is an endless act of forgiveness.” – Beyoncé
- “If I had to dream up the perfect woman, she wouldn’t even come close to you.” – Boy Meets World
- “You complete me.” – Jerry Maguire
- “Your love shines brighter than the stars.”
- “We were together. I forget the rest.” – Walt Whitman
- “You make my heart skip beats in the best way.”
- “In a sea of people, my eyes will always search for you.”
- “I could start fires with what I feel for you.” – David Ramirez
- “You’ve made me feel like I could fly, and now I never want to come down.”
- “Love isn’t something you find. It’s something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
- “Our love is like the wind: I can’t see it, but I feel it every day.”
- “You are the best thing I never knew I needed.” – The Princess and the Frog
- “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.” – E.E. Cummings
- “I’d rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
- “Every day I discover that I love you even more, and in this infinite universe, I will love you till the end.”
- “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “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
- “I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
- “I would find you in any lifetime.”
- “You are my heart, my soul, my treasure, my today, my tomorrow, my forever.”
- “There’s no mountain too high, no river too wide, to keep me from loving you.”
- “To love is to burn, to be on fire.” – Jane Austen
- “With you, every moment is timeless.”
- “I’ve loved you since the moment I laid eyes on you.”
- “My love for you is a promise that knows no limits.”
- “When two hearts meet, they beat as one.”
- “If kisses were stars, I’d give you the entire galaxy.”
- “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I’m with you.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Our souls found each other, and my heart knew it was home.”
- “Your love is a treasure I cherish for eternity.”
- “You’re the song my heart sings.”
- “If I could live forever, I would spend every second with you.”
- “You make my heart smile in ways words cannot describe.”
- “There’s no place I’d rather be than right next to you.”
- “You and I are a love story written in the stars.”
- “Loving you feels like coming home.”
- “Every time I look at you, I fall in love all over again.”
- “Love is a timeless flame that burns brightly in our hearts forever.”
