46 Heartfelt Love Quotes

Love is a universal language that has the power to transcend boundaries, touch hearts, and connect souls. Whether you're looking to express your feelings to a new love, reignite the spark in a long-term relationship, or simply revel in the beauty of romantic words, heartfelt love quotes can be incredibly moving and inspiring. To help you find the perfect words, we've curated a collection of the top 46 heartfelt love quotes. These quotes capture the essence of love in its myriad forms, offering you timeless wisdom and poetic sentiment to cherish and share. Dive in and let these beautiful expressions of love inspire your heart and those around you.

1. “Take him away. Prepare a feast. Forget nothing. My crown: the golden cutlery. The poison bottles; and the fumes; the wreaths of ivy and the bloody joints; the chains; the bowl of nettles; the spices; the baskets of fresh grass; the skulls and spines; the ribs and shoulder-blades. Forget nothing or, by the blindness of my sockets, I will have your hearts out. Take him away...” - Mervyn Peake

2. “It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.” - Stephen King

3. “soulsThat we might break these moldsAnd free our restless soulsStart to believeThat we can rise aboveOur pettiness and loveLike we ain't loved beforeFree on this earthAs the surf that rollsAnd crashes on the shoreAnd hey now don't run and hideYour little heart awayIf it's goneWe'll sure never find itPining for lost innocenceTantalisingly I sawOur shadows moving through the doorTraces from a different timeWhen I was yours and you were truly mineAll mine” - David Gray

4. “[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.” - Charles Dickens

5. “If I were rain, That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch,Could I join two hearts as well?” - Tite Kubo

6. “He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts.” - Kim Edwards

7. “They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.” - Gaston Leroux

8. “Do you know anything about hearts, Jona? The Senta know hearts. Hearts are not one organ. Inside a mother's womb, two pulsing bags of blood seek their eternal mate."Her hand reached out to his. She opened his palm, and traced a finger down his lifeline, then his loveline. She lifted it up to her own face. She placed it on her cheek. "Lungs are fine apart," she said, "Hands do not need another but to clap. Brains gnarl like roots in the nothing of soul, and guts spin in knots around the nothing of hunger. But hearts are made by two complete parts merging together. Once the two pieces sense each other in the blood flow, they cross every bloody cliff inside of us. The arteries bind the halves close. The veins make love to each other in the life pulse that makes all life from love entwined.” - J.M. McDermott

9. “Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…” - Louisa May Alcott

10. “…the child's heart bled when it was broken.” - Louisa May Alcott

11. “I looked briefly up from my notes. I was surrounded by hearts, sectioned and preserved. Hearts with holes. Hearts with leaking valves or thickened walls. Hearts with narrow or transposed aortas. I closed my eyes.” - Claire Holden Rothman

12. “Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.” - Shannon Alder

13. “Listen to your hearts, parents! You are the expert when it comes to knowing your child. I love the Scripture that says we are to let the peace of God rule in our hearts...In other words, peace in your heart is to be like an umpire calling the shots. When in doubt--DON'T!” - Sherrie Eldridge

14. “Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.BEATRICEIndeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.DON PEDROYou have put him down, lady, you have put him down.BEATRICESo I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.” - William Shakespeare

15. “We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.” - Paulo Coelho

16. “The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating” - Elizabeth Scott

17. “There had been a computer he had also built himself on the farthest corner of the room, but he had sold that a couple of months ago to buy me a necklace. I wore it then, it was two silver hearts linked as one. That’s what he and I were, we we’re one.” - Natalie Valdes

18. “Choice or no, my heart is his.” - Beth Revis

19. “Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.” - Peter Kreeft

20. “There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.” - Michael Connelly

21. “You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it” - Criss Jami

22. “A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many religions and sects–but he'll never find God that way. God is here, right now, at our side. We can see Him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around. But meeting Him is not easy. The more God asks us to participate in Hismysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly tofollow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way. Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the father.” - Paulo Coelho

23. “Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.” - Haruki Murakami

24. “Hearts understand in ways minds cannot.” - Louis Wilson

25. “I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.” - Holly Black

26. “From out of your heart, you speak."-Emma, When Crickets Cry” - Charles Martin

27. “If anything in the universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart"...It derives no benefit from the blood it pumps making it the most unselfish of organs...it is also the most courageous and faithful." (124, 126) - Reese” - Charles Martin

28. “It's ridiculous to think that taking out words will heal hearts,because a palm-sized box is just not enough for the anger of this world.” - Nema Al-Araby

29. “Stella scribbledin thick black textaacross half the pagesof my best storybook,filled with people who venturedwhere their hearts took them.Beautiful worlds beyond mine.” - Emma Cameron

30. “I missed you,” she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing.” - Thomm Quackenbush

31. “Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago.” - Catherynne M. Valente

32. “The heart of a woman is really strange.” - Kim Dong Hwa

33. “We have it in our head that if we fill our stomachs, we’ll fill our hearts.” - Kate Wicker

34. “We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the houses. They were like people without hearts; raspberry tarts without the jam.” - Glenda Millard

35. “As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.” - Rivera Sun

36. “The only worthwhile constant in human existence is our heart which can only be nourished by sincere love. A good strong heart radiates love in all directions perpetually. The heart is also the most fragile of human existence. Therefore, take good care of it. Give it constant love.” - Sohail Mahmood

37. “Run, sweetheart, run.” - Rae Hachton

38. “Flowers bloomed without glimpsing your smile in spring, leaves have fallen in autumn chiming in with the gloom, the chill of winter has gone and now is the first light of summer without you near but in our hearts will forever hold you dear..." Elizabeth's Shorter Poems” - Elizabeth E. Castillo

39. “Go on till you come to the end; then stop.” - Lewis Carroll

40. “God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.” - R. Kent Hughes

41. “Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.” - Belinda Jeffrey

42. “Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned.” - Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf

43. “Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.” - Andrew Motion

44. “I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.” - Bela Lugosi

45. “Those in Argentina, Mexico and Peru, Colombia and the Caribbean Bear La Mancha and Quixote in their heartsFor he is an ultimate and overlooked Don Juan.” - Dejan Stojanovic

46. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain.” - Shannon L. Alder