74 Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love—and Give You All the Feels
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023
"Our love is like…" an ocean? The universe? A really juicy hamburger? Avoid cliches and awkward silences with these relationship quotes about love and romance.
Why is love so easy to feel but so hard to express?
“I love you” is always great but sometimes those three little words just aren’t enough to express the true depth of your love. Thankfully there are plenty of love quotes from people who are much smarter, wiser, and funnier than the rest of us. Romantic love quotes, loyalty quotes, love poems, love memes, and other love messages can get your creative juices flowing so you can truly express your love and devotion.
How to use love quotes: There’s a beautiful quote about love for every relationship occasion. Write one on a sticky note on the mirror or in your partner’s car, to brighten your loved one’s day. Text one as a way to let them know you’re thinking about them. Use a love quote to caption on a cute couple pic on Instagram.
Or perhaps you are trying to come up with the perfect swoon-worthy ~something~ to say for a meaningful occasion. You can use these love quotes in wedding vows, writing anniversary or birthday cards, inscribing jewelry, or attached to a gift sent to a long-distance love. The options are endless!
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” —Carl Jung
“Love starts as a feeling, but to continue is a choice. And I find myself choosing you, more and more every day.” —Justin Wetch
“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.” —Oscar Wilde
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“It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” —Agatha Christie
“When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.” —Taylor Swift
“We are most alive when we are in love.” —John Updike
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“I want to be with you. It’s as simple and as complicated as that.” —Charles Bukowski
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” —Eva Gabor
“We’re all a little weird, and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” —Dr. Seuss
Soulmates are forever
“Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” —Richard Bach
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” —Herman Hesse
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” —Mignon McLaughlin
Falling in love
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” —Sam Keen
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss
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“Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Franklin P. Jones
“You are my greatest adventure.” —The Incredibles
“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
“A soulmate is someone who you carry with you forever. It’s the one person who knew you and accepted you and believed in you before anyone else did or when no one else would.” —Dawson’s Creek
“A soul mate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.” —Kenny Loggins
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” —Emily Brontë
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle
“I think you have different soulmates throughout your life, that your soul needs different things at different times.” —Kim Kardashian
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” —Ann Landers
“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
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Long-distance love sparks
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” —Benjamin Franklin
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” —Jane Austen
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” —A.A. Milne
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” —Virginia Woolf
“Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.” —Ice-T
“Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits.” —Dee King
“Love is not finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you can’t live without.” —Rafael Ortiz
“I exist in two places: Here and where you are.” —Margaret Atwood
“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it has merely shown me that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.” —Doug Fetherling
“It’s been a year and three months since we’ve kissed, and I rather have the ghost of his mouth on my lips than kiss anyone else.” —Alishah Khan
Couple goals
“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
38. “When we love somebody, we show it by doing something nice. [In a relationship] learn to serve: find a need and fulfill a need. Surprise people with a good deed they hadn’t planned on.” —Russell M. Nelson
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” —Patrick Rothfuss
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” —Yoko Ono
“A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.” —Shannon L. Alder
“Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.” —H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” —Julia Roberts
“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
“Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three-meals-a-day and remembering to carry the trash out.” —Joyce Brothers
“True love lasts forever.” —Joseph B. Wirthlin
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” —Henry David Thoreau
“Souls tend to go back to who feels like home.” —N.R. Hart
“She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person.” —E. Leventhal
“If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.” —Cher
“Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.” —Margaret Mead
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” —Audrey Hepburn
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“Who, being loved, is poor?” —Oscar Wilde
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.” —Sophocles
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
“True love will triumph in the end— which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.” —John Green
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” —Donald Miller
“Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.” —Fawn Weaver
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” —Oprah Winfrey
Funny quotes to help you laugh together
“I married for love but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored.” —Cameron Esposito
“True love is singing karaoke ‘Under Pressure’ and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.” —Mindy Kaling
“One of the keys to a successful marriage is separate bathrooms. When he enters my bathroom sometimes I’m like, ‘Why are you in here?’ And he’s like, ‘I live here. Can I enjoy my bathroom, too?'” —Michelle Obama
“I’d like to publicly thank my husband [Dax Shepard] for changing half the diapers in our house. I hope he changes all of mine one day.” —Kristen Bell
“Husband secretly lowers the thermostat and I secretly turn it back up. We both vehemently deny touching it. Marriage is fun.” —Stephanie Ortiz
“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” —Rita Rudner
“I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed, too—for being married so many times.” —Elizabeth Taylor
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” —Charles M. Schulz
“Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” —Will Ferrell
“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” —Erma Bombeck
“I wanted to send you something sexy, but the mailman told me to get out of the mailbox.” —unknown
“I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.” —Rita Rudner
“It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.” —Lucille Ball
Sometimes, our relationships end—and we need inspirational words to help us get through it and move on. Here are some broken heart quotes that help you feel whole again.
