100 Thoughtful Valentine's Day Quotes to Express Your Love (2024)

​Valentine's Day is a special occasion to express love and appreciation to that special someone in your life. Whether you're looking for a heartfelt quote to share with your partner, a quote to accompany a gift, or a thoughtful message to send to a loved one, these 100 Valentine's Day quotes to express your love are sure to inspire and delight.

From classic romantic quotes to modern expressions of love, this collection offers a variety of options to suit any relationship. Whether you're in the early stages of love or have been together for years, these quotes capture the essence of what it means to love and be loved.

Whether you're looking for a quote to share on social media, a message to include with a gift, or simply a thoughtful reminder of the love you share, these quotes are the perfect way to express your feelings this Valentine's Day. So take a look, find your favorite, and share the love this Valentine's Day.

1. "Love is a friendship that has caught fire." - Ann Landers
2. "To love at all is to be vulnerable." - C.S. Lewis
3. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." - Victor Hugo
4. "You are worthy of love and happiness, just as you are." - Unknown
5. "Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows." - Joseph Joubert
6. "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more." - Melody Beattie
7. "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
8. "Appreciation is a magnet that attracts more good things into your life." - Rhonda Byrne
9. "The heart that is grateful is the happiest heart." - Seneca
10. "We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude." - Cynthia Ozick
11. "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize the prisoner was you." - Lewis B. Smedes
12. "Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." - Buddha
13. "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times it can feel like a painful sacrifice. But in the end, it is a witness to the truth that offense never wins." - Marianne Williamson
14. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi
15. "Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace." - Buddha
16. "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." - Jimmy Johnson
17. "Life is a journey, not a destination." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." - Zig Ziglar
19. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu
20. "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
21. "No one has ever become poor by giving." - Anne Frank
22. "Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
23. "The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." - W.B. Yeats
24. "Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." - Mother Teresa
25. "A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the leaves and flowers fill the world." - Michael Franti
26. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You have to believe in yourself." - Lucille Ball
27. "You are enough just as you are." - Maya Angelou
28. "Be yourself, love yourself, and shine your light." - Unknown
29. "Don't wait for someone to complete you. Be complete by yourself, and then find someone who loves you for who you are." - Roy T. Bennett
30. "Bloom wherever you are planted." - Chinese proverb
31. "Love sees what is invisible to others." - B.F. Skinner
32. "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
33. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
34. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." - Oprah Winfrey
35. "Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius
36. "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
37. "There are always three sides to a story: your side, my side, and the truth." - Unknown
38. "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anaïs Nin
39. "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page." - Saint Augustine
40. "Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
41. "We are all part of the same story." - Joseph Campbell
42. "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller
43. "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." - John Donne
44. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu
45. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
46. "A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the leaves and flowers fill the world." - Michael Franti
47. "No one has ever become poor by giving." - Anne Frank
48. "Kindness is like a boomerang. If you throw it out there, it will come back to you." - Unknown
49. "Be the reason someone smiles today." - Unknown
50. "Kindness is the universal language that anyone can understand." - William Arthur Ward
51. "Love is the bridge between you and everything." - Rumi
52. "True love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach
53. "Love is friendship that has caught fire." - Ann Landers
54. "To love at all is to be vulnerable." - C.S. Lewis
55. "We accept the love we think we deserve." - Stephen Chbosky
56. "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)" - E. E. Cummings
57. "Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love." - William Shakespeare
58. "As you wish." - Westley, The Princess Bride
59. "All you need is love." - The Beatles (Song)
60. "There's no place like home." - Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz
61. "I love you more than words can express, but don't worry, I won't make you read a novel." - Unknown
62. "You're like a bad habit I don't want to break." - Unknown
63. "Netflix and chill? More like cuddle puddle and commitment." - Unknown
64. "You make me laugh harder than anyone, even when I try to be serious." - Unknown
65. "I love you more than pizza on a Friday night, and that's saying something." - Unknown
66. "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes the candle and fans the fire." - La Rochefoucauld
67. "We are 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 mutually in mutual weirdness and call it love." - Dr. Seuss
68. "Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." - Woody Allen
69. "To get the full value of joy you must have someone to share it with." - Mark Twain
70. "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
71. "You're not just my partner, you're my best friend." - Unknown
72. "A friend is someone who knows you and loves you just the same." - Elbert Hubbard
73. "True friendship is like a diamond, precious and rare." - Unknown
74. "We may not have it all together, but together we have it all." - Unknown
75. "Friends are the family you choose." - Unknown
76. "Love is not finding someone to complete you, but loving yourself so much that you overflow and have something to give to others." - Unknown
77. "You are capable of amazing things, and I love you for it." - Unknown
78. "Grow old with me, the best is yet to be." - Robert Browning
79. "Love is a journey, not a destination." - Roy T. Bennett
80. "Love is the answer, and you are my love." - Leo Buscaglia
81. "We were always meant to meet, our souls intertwined before time." - Unknown
82. "Love is a force of nature. When we are caught in its current, there is no resistance possible." - John Barrymore
83. "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
84. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
85. "Love is the greatest refreshment in life." - Pablo Picasso
86. "You're my happily ever after, even on Mondays." - Unknown
87. "Netflix and chill? More like cuddle puddle and commitment." - Unknown
88. "You make me laugh harder than anyone, even when I try to be serious." - Unknown
89. "You're the cheese to my macaroni, the avocado to my toast." - Unknown
90. "I love you more than pizza on a Friday night, and that's saying something." - Unknown
91. "Love is not about finding someone to complete you, but loving yourself so much that you overflow and have something to give to others." - Unknown
92. "You are capable of amazing things, and I love you for it." - Unknown
93. "Grow old with me, the best is yet to be." - Robert Browning
94. "Love is a journey, not a destination." - Roy T. Bennett
95. "Love is the answer, and you are my love." - Leo Buscaglia
96. "May the force be with you... always." - Princess Leia, Star Wars
97. "There's no place like home." - Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz
98. "All you need is love." - The Beatles (Song)
99. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
100. "A thousand falling stars, a million fireflies, and still they could not outshine the way you light up my world." - Unknown
101. "You're not just my partner, you're my best friend." - Unknown
102. "A friend is someone who knows you and loves you just the same." - Elbert Hubbard
103. "True friendship is like a diamond, precious and rare." - Unknown
104. "We may not have it all together, but together we have it all." - Unknown
105. "Friends are the family you choose." - Unknown
106. "I will love you with a thousand hearts, each one beating with a lifetime of devotion." - Unknown
107. "My love for you is like the ocean, vast and never-ending." - Unknown
108. "I will love you even when you're grumpy, tired, or forget to take out the trash." - Unknown
109. "You are my everything, the reason I smile, the air I breathe." - Unknown
110. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
111. "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 62. "We were meant to be together, I just knew it from the moment I met you." - Unknown
112. "You are the answer to every prayer I've ever made." - Unknown
113. "In your eyes, I see my forever." - Unknown
114. "You are the poem I never knew I was writing." - Unknown
115. "I never knew what true happiness was until you came along. Now I just need you to do the dishes more often." - Unknown
116. "You're like a bad habit I don't want to break." - Unknown
117. "I love you more than coffee, and that's saying something." - Unknown
118. "Roses are red, violets are blue, I may not be perfect, but at least I'm here for you." - Unknown
119. "You're the peanut butter to my jelly, the cheese to my macaroni." - Unknown
120. "Love is not weakness, it is strength. It is not possession, it is freedom. It is not safety, it is adventure." - Leo Buscaglia
121. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
122. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." - Victor Hugo
123. "Love is not finding someone to complete you, but loving yourself so much that you overflow and have something to give to others." - Unknown
124. "We only live once, but if we do it right, once is enough." - Mae West
125. "I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." - Roy Croft
126. "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin
127. "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
128. "There's no place like home." - Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz
129. "Can't Help Falling in Love" - Elvis Presley (Song)
130. "J'aime les mots qui ne riment pas, / Pour l'amour qui ne ressemble à rien." - Jacques Prévert (French)
131. "Amor es fuego que arde sin cesar." - Spanish proverb
132. "愛は人生を美しくする。" - Japanese proverb (Ai wa jinsei o utsukushiku suru)
133. "Ya habibi ya omri." - Arabic saying (You are my life, my love)
134. "Aşk her şeyi yenebilir; aşkı hiçbir şey yenemez." - Turkish proverb (Love can conquer everything; nothing can conquer love)
135. "You are worthy of love and happiness, just as you are." - Unknown
136. "Self-love is the foundation of all love." - Louise Hay
137. "Be yourself, love yourself, and shine your light." - Unknown
138. "You are enough." - Maya Angelou
139. "The greatest love of all is the love for yourself." - Erich Fromm
140. "Love is not about finding someone to complete you, but finding someone who accepts your imperfections and completes your world." - Unknown
141. "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin
142. "The highest result of education is tolerance." - Helen Keller
143. "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
144. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
145. "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes the candle and fans the fire." - La Rochefoucauld
146. "We are 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 mutually in mutual weirdness and call it love." - Dr. Seuss
147. "Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." - Woody Allen
148. "To get the full value of joy you must have someone to share it with." - Mark Twain
149. "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
150. "I love you more than all the pizza in the world... and that's saying a lot." - Unknown
151. "You're my lobster." - Phoebe Buffay, Friends
152. "I don't need a knight in shining armor, I just need someone to bring tacos." - Unknown
153. "Netflix and chill? More like Netflix and COMMIT." - Unknown
154. "I love you more than words can express, but don't worry, I won't make you read a novel." - Unknown
155. "Love is a friendship that has caught fire." - Ann Landers
156. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
157. "True love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach
158. "Love is a journey, not a destination." - Roy T. Bennett
159. "To love at all is to be vulnerable." - C.S. Lewis
160. "I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
161. "We loved with a love that was more than love." - Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
162. "Grow old with me, the best is yet to be." - Robert Browning
163. "You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." - E. E. Cummings
164. "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)" - E. E. Cummings
165. "Grow old with me, the best is yet to be." - Robert Browning
166. "Where there is great love, there are always miracles." - Willa Cather
167. "Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one." - Anne Brontë
168. "You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." - E. E. Cummings
169. "I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." - Roy Croft
170. "You are the peanut butter to my jelly." - Unknown
171. "If you were a desert, you'd be a macaron - sweet, elegant, and slightly irresistible." - Unknown
172. "I'm not clingy, I'm just preemptively preventing you from being stolen." - Unknown
173. "I love you more than chocolate... and that's saying something." - Unknown
174. "You make me laugh a little louder, smile a little wider, and dream a little bigger." - Unknown
175. "Love is a friendship that has caught fire." - Ann Landers
176. "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." - Voltaire
177. "We don't fall in love; we rise in love. We climb, we open ourselves to fall. But we rise." - Rumi
178. "To be deeply loved by someone gives you strength; while to love someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
179. "I love you like rain loves the Earth. It falls softly and endlessly." - Unknown
180. "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)" - E. E. Cummings
181. "He stole a glance at her, and found her looking at him, and felt all the blood in his body rise to his face." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
182. "It is a curious truth that the only creatures that are confident about loving are dogs. We, the so-called superior animals, are quite unsure." - W. H. Auden
183. "Do I love you? My God, what a question! You might as well ask if I love the West Wind, the smell of old leather books, or the autumn sunset." - Patrick Suskind, Perfume
184. "I would rather live one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
185. "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
186. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
187. "Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, demolishes all memory of beginning and all fear of ending." - Madame de Staël
188. "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. You have done so much for me, that I have been able to do so much for myself." - Roy Croft
189. "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the power we have lost in civilization?" - T.S. Eliot
190. "I'll never let go, Jack." - Rose, Titanic
191. "As you wish." - Westley, The Princess Bride
192. "Inconceivable!" - Vizzini, The Princess Bride
193. "It means no one gets left behind." - Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story
194. "There's no place like home." - Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz
195. "All You Need Is Love" - The Beatles
196. "Can't Help Falling in Love" - Elvis Presley
197. "Your Song" - Elton John
198. "I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston
199. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi
200. “The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.” – Margaret Atwood, Surfacing