Valentine’s Day is the one day a year when it’s socially acceptable to be as “mushy” as humanly possible. But let’s be real, finding the perfect words to pair with that sunset photo or that blurry-but-cute
selfie is surprisingly hard.
Whether you’re celebrating a decades-long romance, a fresh “soft launch,” or a self-love era, here are the best quotes on love to make your Instagram feed swoon-worthy.
If your vibe is “hopeless romantic,” these timeless lines will hit home.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once – John Green
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment – Sarah Dessen
Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will – Elaine Davis
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow – Leo Christopher
At every table I’ll save you a seat – Taylor Swift
I need you like a heart needs a beat – One Republic
Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive – Unknown
The real lover is a man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space – Marilyn Monroe
I’ll be loving you, always with a love that’s true – Patsy Cline
Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you – Elvis Presley
Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be – Robert Browning
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
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
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you… I love you for the part of me that you bring out – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If I know what love is, it is because of you – Hermann Hesse
All at once you are the one I have been waiting for. King of my heart, body and soul – Taylor Swift
My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue. All’s well that ends well to end up with you – Taylor Swift
He is not a lover who does not love forever – Euripides
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own – Robert A. Heinlein
To love is to burn, to be on fire – Jane Austen
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up – James Baldwin
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him – Brendan Francis
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood – Oscar Wilde
You make me want to be a better man – Melvin Udall
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect… I love her and it is the beginning of everything – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears – Ovid
Love is not love until love’s vulnerable – Theodore Roethke
To love at all is to be vulnerable… To love is to be vulnerable – C.S. Lewis
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us… – Paulo Coelho
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime – Bette Davis
Love is so short, forgetting is so long – Pablo Neruda
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul – Pablo Neruda
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source… – Anais Nin
In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing – Jack Kornfield
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. – Pablo Neruda
