Sept. 12, 2024, 10:45 a.m.
Finding the perfect words to express the depths of your love can be challenging. Whether you're penning a heartfelt message for a special occasion, or simply looking to brighten your loved one's day, a carefully chosen quote can speak volumes. We've curated a selection of 53 touching and sincere love quotes that capture the essence of romance, passion, and affection. Dive in and let these timeless words inspire your expressions of love.
1. “If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.” - Leo Tolstoy
2. “He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in their own hearts that they walked to.” - Laura Adams Armer
3. “Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.” - Graham Greene
4. “Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul.” - Roman Payne
5. “There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison” - Jane Austen
6. “It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.” - Stephen King
7. “When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word… when it ceases to be just a measurement of time…but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts... that is a reflection of true love.” - Steve Maraboli
8. “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
9. “[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.” - Charles Dickens
10. “If I were rain, That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch,Could I join two hearts as well?” - Tite Kubo
11. “Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.” - Walt Disney
12. “A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.” - Markus Zusak
13. “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
14. “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
15. “Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…” - Louisa May Alcott
16. “…the child's heart bled when it was broken.” - Louisa May Alcott
17. “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
18. “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
19. “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
20. “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
21. “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
22. “The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating” - Elizabeth Scott
23. “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
24. “Choice or no, my heart is his.” - Beth Revis
25. “Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.” - Peter Kreeft
26. “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
27. “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
28. “Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.” - Fulton J. Sheen
29. “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
30. “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
31. “And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.” - Markus Zusak
32. “Hearts understand in ways minds cannot.” - Louis Wilson
33. “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
34. “Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.” - Orson Scott Card
35. “From out of your heart, you speak."-Emma, When Crickets Cry” - Charles Martin
36. “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
37. “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
38. “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
39. “The heart of a woman is really strange.” - Kim Dong Hwa
40. “We have it in our head that if we fill our stomachs, we’ll fill our hearts.” - Kate Wicker
41. “I like the word 'affection' because it signifies something habitual, and we are soon to meet to try whether we have mind enough to keep our hearts warm.” - Michael Kelahan
42. “As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.” - Rivera Sun
43. “For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do they know reason or restraint, and if you want to know the truth, a goodly number of grown-up hearts never learn it.” - Catherynne M. Valente
44. “Run, sweetheart, run.” - Rae Hachton
45. “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
46. “The softest hearts always have the toughest shields.” - Claire Cross
47. “Go on till you come to the end; then stop.” - Lewis Carroll
48. “God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.” - R. Kent Hughes
49. “Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned.” - Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf
50. “Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.” - Andrew Motion
51. “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
52. “ولله فيما اودع القلوب من اسراره شئون وشجون” - عبد الوهاب مطاوع
53. “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