59 Heartfelt Love Story Quotes

Love stories have been a timeless way to explore the depths of human emotion, capturing the essence of passion, longing, and connection. Whether it's the quiet comfort of a lifelong partnership or the fiery beginnings of a new romance, love has the unique power to ignite our spirits and touch our hearts. In this carefully curated collection of 59 heartfelt love story quotes, you'll find words that speak to the myriad experiences of love—from the sweet to the sublime. Let these quotes inspire you, reminding you of love's beauty and its profound ability to shape our lives, one story at a time.

1. “The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...” - Christina Westover

2. “I went back to look for you.Not understanding the language of hello,I thought I’d speak it just the same.” - Rod McKuen

3. “It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.” - Kristin Hannah

4. “Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle's compass come:Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom.” - William Shakespeare

5. “As our kissing progresses, I don’t care that our tryst seems raunchy and wrong. I don’t care that I’m at school, in the boy’s bathroom. I don’t care that to most people this would seem cheap, dirty, and despicable. The only thing I can think about while he kisses me deeper, harder, faster, is that Henry Garner is the plague and the only thing I want him to do is infect me.” - Lauren Hammond

6. “Stop being the shy boy that wants to do everything right and responsibly. I’m sick of your honorable intentions Eli. In fifty years, when I’m old in my bed I want to wake up when the sun shines in my window and know that the person lying beside me was the right choice. I don’t want to look at someone else and always wish it was you.” ~ Maggie Parsons from Epitaphs from the Afterlife” - Autumn Rosen

7. “Sometimes you want to say, “I love you, but…”Yet the “but” takes away the ‘I love you’. In love their are no ‘buts’ or ‘if’s’ or ‘when’. It’s just there, and always. No beginning, no end. It’s the condition-less state of the heart. Not a feeling that comes and goes at the whim of the emotions. It is there in our heart, a part of our heart…eventually grafting itself into each limb and cell of our bodies. Love changes our brain, the way we move and talk. Love lives in our spirit and graces us with its presence each day, until death.To say “I love you, but….” is to say, “I did not love you at all”.I say this to you now: I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.” - Jamie Weise

8. “…so many ticks steadily around the clock. My heart beats ferociously, as if to say it will not digest this leaving. But you are gone. I could never look into your tormenting eyes again. You mock me with each word you choose…. of the millions of words in the English tongue you could have chosen…you select the one’s that break me down.” - Jamie Weise

9. “I’m mistaken….for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.” - Jamie Weise

10. “I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.” - Jamie Weise

11. “When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.” - Jamie Weise

12. “The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?” - Kathleen Valentine

13. “No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all.” - David Levithan

14. “all night he talks and holds me, all night he loves me slow and careful.” - Robert Adamson

15. “We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air.” - Taylor Swift

16. “...Where we got to know eachother. Not just with words, it was how we observed eachother's movements. The way your smile only effected the lower half of your face. How our hands moved when they were close: as if they had minds of their own.” - Elaine Turnbo

17. “No one is perfect. Sometimes, it is the imperfections that make us more alive than those around us. It’s the happiness of truly breathing and living in freedom of ourselves. Even though we may look broken to the world, there is always someone who sees us as we truly are, and helps us to create our whole being.” - Jennifer Varnadore

18. “People who love do the impossible all the time.” - Germaine Shames

19. “You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.” - Susan Elizabeth Phillips

20. “I want your hand without the skin. Bone to bone without the molds. Mouth to mouth, without the porn.” - Coco J. Ginger

21. “...I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.” - Coco J. Ginger

22. “....finally I see that it’s never been me, just a blanket that keeps you warm. Easily tossed alongwhen something flashier or someone prettier comes along. Your heart I held so carefully, I see, this was all just a game...” - Coco J. Ginger

23. “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.” - Bernard Branson

24. “I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her.” - James Lusarde

25. “You are perfect in your own dysfunctional way. And it’s exactly what I want." - Fenn” - Candace Knoebel

26. “...Aku ingin kau tahu, diam-diam, aku selalu menitipkan harapan yang sama ke dalam beribu-ribu rintik hujan: aku ingin hari depanku selalu bersamamu...” - Yoana Dianika

27. “The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life.” - Melissa Andrea

28. “In a dark layer of Esme's memory there was a kiss. Vividly she recalled Mihai in the snow, naked and fanged. That kiss had conjured ancient passions a god had tried to erase, and Esme remembered the pressure of it and even knew the flavor of that black river. But it belonged to someone else. Tom's kiss, by contrast, wasn't passionate.Esme didn't even have time to close her eyes and tilt her face up to meet it, and it landed crooked and only half on her lips. It was clumsy and it ended quickly. And it was hers.” - Laini Taylor

29. “Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both partners run out of goods.But if the seed of a genuine disinterested love, which is often present, is ever to develop, it is essential that we pretend to ourselves and to others that it is stronger and more developed than it is, that we are less selfish than we are. Hence the social havoc wrought by the paranoid to whom the thought of indifference is so intolerable that he divides others into two classes, those who love him for himself alone and those who hate him for the same reason.Do a paranoid a favor, like paying his hotel bill in a foreign city when his monthly check has not yet arrived, and he will take this as an expression of personal affection – the thought that you might have done it from a general sense of duty towards a fellow countryman in distress will never occur to him. So back he comes for more until your patience is exhausted, there is a row, and he departs convinced that you are his personal enemy. In this he is right to the extent that it is difficult not to hate a person who reveals to you so clearly how little you love others.” - W.H. Auden

30. “Cinta tak dapat dipaksa. Dan aku senang jika orang yang aku cintai juga merasa senang. Aku tak dapat hidup bersamanya. Ia akan tersiksa dan aku tak ingin dia begitu.” - Diyah Ratna

31. “But then, Phillip reminded me of something that happened so long ago, I had completely forgotten it. He reminded of when we were ten, and he gave me my first kiss. We were on the swings out behind school, and right after he kissed me, he got up and ran away. Then all of a sudden, he stopped, turned around and yelled back, Will you marry me someday? And I yelled back to him, YES! And so he said that if people ask, I could tell them that we've been secretly engaged for the past twelve years. And so,.. you will probably all think I am very crazy, but I had to say YES again tonight!” - Jillian Dodd

32. “I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.” - Kimberly Novosel

33. “I don't know, it's stupid being 20," she said. "I'm just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody's pushing me from behind.” - Haruki Murakami

34. “Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.” - Haruki Murakami

35. “He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.” - Haruki Murakami

36. “I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can’t help but glow.” - Kellie Elmore

37. “I loved the story but also enjoyed the format of the book, which includes e-mail messages. Janice L. Jones” - Vicki M. Taylor

38. “... far be it from a French man to interfere with love.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

39. “He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a summer. and He wanted to find it.” - Mikl Paul

40. “I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn't really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas.” - Kevin Brooks

41. “There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.” - Stephenie Meyer

42. “When you do fall in love with me, Eena, I don’t want it to be because I gave into your demands, but because your heart gave into its desire to truly be loved.” With an injured frown he uttered goodnight and left the room. She stood alone, chastised and bruised. It seemed right to apologize for her insensitive words, but not now. Not while a room full of people remained out there.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

43. “He extended a finger to her face, the simple gesture bringing into play the sleek muscles of his shoulders and arms. “You are so beautiful, so adorable. I know full well you’re my doom, and I don’t care.” - Chris Lange

44. “Something was bleeding… and something was broken. It was my heart… because I had to leave you. (Chase to Rayne)” - Kimberly Brockman

45. “To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.” - Jennifer Megan Varnadore

46. “Love, at its best, wipes commonsenseAway. Much as drops will condenseFrom hidden liquid in the air, So, too, do lovers soon compareTheir temp’ratures til, happily,Their judgement fogs up suddenly.” - McKenzie Bodkin

47. “And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well.” - Gwenn Wright

48. “Feeling like I had to lose you for the second time...” He shook his head, and I thought I saw tears under his eyes. “I don’t think I could bear it. You’re everything to me, Elizabeth.” - Michelle Madow

49. “Oh God, my stomach must have won a medal- it's doing a lap of honour now.” - Ali McNamara

50. “Love is the most beautiful thing that can happen to someone. No one can explain that feeling and desires engrossing a person preparing to give their heart to someone.” - Natalie Ansard

51. “Jason, I love you and you cannot escape from it. Even if you could, I would never let you go.” - Natalie Ansard

52. “You love me," she said. "That's enough. We love each other.""Yes. Yes, that's true." He smiled. "We are a love story.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

53. “I don't have a love life. I have a like life.'Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be peacefully free from love...” - Lorrie Moore

54. “Maybe you yhink you're not perfect,not pretty enough,or smart enough,but for some guy,you're pefect just the way you are.that's your perfect man.” - Yuchita Erayani

55. “Loving isn't about selecting only the good parts. It's about taking the whole and loving the lot.” - Santa Montefiore

56. “Love must face reality, if it is to surviveJumping in the Puddles of Life” - Loretta Livingstone

57. “Every success story has a secret,Even if it’s a love story.” - Moffat Machingura

58. “If you haven't fall in love yet...you haven't experienced true pain and happiness.” - Chandan Sharma

59. “Most things in my life are anything but simple--but loving you is. I just do.” - Cassandra Giovanni