90 Heartfelt Love Quotes

Love is a universal language, spoken through a simple glance, a gentle touch, or a thoughtful word. It's the force that connects us all, bridging gaps and transcending boundaries. In a world that often feels fast-paced and fragmented, taking a moment to reflect on love can be incredibly grounding and nourishing for the soul. Whether you’re seeking to express your feelings to someone special, or you’re simply looking to draw inspiration from the words of poets and romantics, a heartfelt love quote can encapsulate emotions that are often hard to articulate. Dive into our curated collection of the top 90 heartfelt love quotes, and let these words resonate with the tenderness and passion you hold within. Each quote captures the essence of love in its many forms, inspiring warmth, understanding, and a renewed appreciation for those we cherish most.

1. “The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...” - C.S. Lewis

2. “Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.” - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

3. “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. (Psalm 28:7 NIV)” - Anonymous

4. “When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.” - Virginia Woolf

5. “The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

6. “What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.” - Jeanette Winterson

7. “My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.” - Noah BenShea

8. “When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” - Kahlil Gibran

9. “Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.” - Nora Roberts

10. “But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.” - Carson McCullers

11. “There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.” - Greta Garbo

12. “I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.” - Jodi Picoult

13. “A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

14. “They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.” - colum mccann

15. “I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating. ” - E.B. White

16. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!” - Charlotte Brontë

17. “All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?” - Mary Balogh

18. “How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!” - Eliza Cook

19. “So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.” - Lucretius

20. “A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'.” - Toba Beta

21. “A judgmental heart keeps listening to the things that annoy.” - Toba Beta

22. “why, it beats so i can love you.” - Ronlyn Domingue

23. “Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

24. “In this abundant earth no doubtIs little room for things worn out:Disdain them, break them, throw them by!And if before the days grew roughWe once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough,I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

25. “Stand and yield," she called out, her voice far steadier than her hands. "For I cannot allow you to pass." Bannor's crooked grin was somehow more intimidating than a snarl. 'Twould have been far easier to despise him if he'd been cursed with horns and a tail instead of twinkling blue eyes and a dimple in his jaw. "What would you have me yield, my lady? My sword or my heart?"-willow&bannor-” - Teresa Medeiros

26. “Art is literacy of the heart.” - Elliot Eisner

27. “There is an emotional promiscuity we’ve noticed among many good young men and women. The young man understands something of the journey of the heart. He wants to talk, to “share the journey.” The woman is grateful to be pursued, she opens up. They share the intimacies of their lives - their wounds, their walks with God. But he never commits. He enjoys her... then leaves. And she wonders, What did I do wrong? She failed to see his passivity. He really did not ever commit or offer assurances that he would. Like Willoughby to Marianne in Sense and Sensibility.Be careful you do not offer too much of yourself to a man until you have good, solid evidence that he is a strong man willing to commit. Look at his track record with other women. Is there anything to be concerned about there? If so, bring it up. Also, does he have any close male friends - and what are they like as men? Can he hold down a job? Is he walking with God in a real and intimate way? Is he facing the wounds of his own life, and is he also demonstrating a desire to repent of Adam’s passivity and/or violence? Is he headed somewhere with his life? A lot of questions, but your heart is a treasure, and we want you to offer it only to a man who is worthy and ready to handle it well.” - Stasi Eldredge

28. “You can’t buy time, Nick. Ever. It’s the only thing in life you can’t get most of, and it’s the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it’s gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

29. “Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.” - Jess C. Scott

30. “They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.” - Christine Feehan

31. “If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.” - James D. Maxon

32. “Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth.” - Laurie H. Hutzler

33. “It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.” - Kirstie Alley

34. “In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself—your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.” - K.P. Yohannan

35. “I don't want to say something cheesy like 'home is where the heart is,' but home is definitely where the heart is. And my heart is, and has always been, with you.” - Melissa Senate

36. “These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.” - Pat Conroy

37. “Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.” - Patti Roberts

38. “The Everlasting Staircase"Jeffrey McDanielWhen the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live,my first thought was: can't she postpone her exitfrom this planet for a week? I've got places to do,people to be. Then grief hit between the ribs,said disappear or reappear more fully. so I boardeda red eyeball and shot across America,hoping the nurses had enough quarters to keepthe jukebox of Grandma's heart playing. She grew uppoor in Appalachia. And while world war IIfunctioned like Prozac for the Great Depression,she believed poverty was a double feature,that the comfort of her adult years was merelyan intermission, that hunger would hobble back,hurl its prosthetic leg through her window,so she clipped, clipped, clipped -- became the JacquesCousteau of the bargain bin, her wetsuitstuffed with coupons. And now --pupils fixed, chindangling like the boots of a hanged man --I press my ear to her lampshade-thin chestand listen to that little soldier march toward whateverplateau, or simply exhaust his arsenal of beats.I hate when people ask if she even knew I was there.The point is I knew, holding the one-sidedconversation of her hand. Once I believed the heartwas like a bar of soap -- the more you use it,the smaller it gets; care too much and it'll snap offin your grasp. But when Grandma's last breathwaltzed from that room, my heart openedwide like a parachute, and I realized she didn't die.She simply found a silence she could call her own.” - Jeffrey McDaniel

39. “She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.” - Bram Stoker

40. “No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.” - Faraaz Kazi

41. “Act of giving something to others is an art of flowering your heart.” - Vinayak

42. “Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate: only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty! You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure! Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world . . .” - Charles Chaplin

43. “I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return.” - Ki Longfellow

44. “There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.” - Haruki Murakami

45. “She wasn't to know there was no room for Soren - or any other boy - in my heart. There was only one boy taking up that place.Luca.” - Lee Monroe

46. “Ultimately, the most romantic thing is the heart, and every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls.” - Robert Walser

47. “The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.” - John Eldredge Brent Curtis

48. “There is no treasure like the human heart.” - Jocelyn Murray

49. “... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge.” - Karen Tayleur

50. “Hunger of the heart is much stronger than hunger for food.” - Amanda Comer

51. “I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart.” - Anthony Liccione

52. “When the heart is dry the eye is dry.” - Victor Hugo

53. “this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolution. a humanist r/evolution. r/evolution is not about bloodshed or about going to the mountains and fighting. we will fight if we are forced to but the fundamental goal of r/evolution must be peace.we need a r/evolution of the mind. we need a r/evolution of the heart. we need a r/evolution of the spirit. the power of the people is stronger than any weapon. a people’s r/evolution can’t be stopped. we need to be weapons of mass construction. weapons of mass love. it’s not enough just to change the system. we need to change ourselves. we have got to make this world user friendly. user friendly.are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger. to sacrifice to end colonialism. to end neo-colonialism. to end racism. to end sexism.r/evolution means the end of exploitation. r/evolution means respecting people from other cultures. r/evolution is creative.r/evolution means treating your mate as a friend and an equal. r/evolution is sexy.r/evolution means respecting and learning from your children. r/evolution is beautiful.r/evolution means protecting the people. the plants. the animals. the air. the water. r/evolution means saving this planet.r/evolution is love.” - Assata Shakur

54. “You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.” - Kyung-Sook Shin

55. “A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

56. “I remember a time when I was rejected for speaking my truth. The rejection hurt very much. I kept going over and over in my mind my motives for sharing my truth, and each time I realized that I had come from my heart. This person refuses to be my friend anymore. Over the years I have come to the feeling that Leo was able to access right away. This person is missing out on so much, for I am a loving person and a good devoted friend. I could have enriched this person's life. I no longer feel the personal pain of rejection, but the sadness for what my former friend is missing. I realized also from this experience that it is most important to speak one's deepest truth and to follow the calling of our heart. As we do so we are filled with an inner power and conviction to give the precious gift that we came to earth to give.” - Joyce Vissell

57. “Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.” - Aberjhani

58. “You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]” - Oscar Wilde

59. “Amo gli occhi di una donna, la sua pelle, la sua passione, tutto. Parlo tanto, fin troppo, ma ci sono momenti che rimango in silenzio ad ascoltarmi. E’ in quei momenti che fabbrico i miei pensieri più veri, mentre cammino per le strade, osservando la gente che passa, ascoltando i discorsi, a volte assurdi, di alcune persone o assaporando il sole che mi scalda dentro. Amo ridere, giocare. Amo le cose belle, le belle storie che dicono qualcosa, mi piace tutto ciò che fa palpitare il cuore. E’ bello aver la pelle d’oca, significa che stai vivendo.” - José Saramago

60. “There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech…” - Dan Stevens

61. “The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

62. “I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.” - Laurence Olivier

63. “I know the path by heart, by heart- a funny expression, so true. My heart knows right where to go.” - Cynthia Hand

64. “God has given all of us both the mind and the heart. And He fully expects us to use them” - R. Alan Woods

65. “I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t want to write songs about loving God, I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes, I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him, I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and it’s real.” - Misty Edwards

66. “For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.” - Kim Harrison

67. “A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'causeOur art's official and only partially artificialAnd our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butThere's not where it settlesBecause it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettleAnd now we face it, this creation we made toTo save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it'sOur safeway they make into a pathetic revelationIn our steampunk nationOur steampunk nation” - Criss Jami

68. “The link between the spirit and the mind is the deep heart".~R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

69. “There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.” - Ashly Lorenzana

70. “Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life." Faith Barnett From Texas Tangle” - Leah Braemel

71. “It has occurred to me, brother, that wisdom may not be the end to everything. Goodness and kindness are, perhaps, beyond wisdom. Is it not possible that the ultimate end is music and gaiety and a dance of joy? Wisdom is the oldest of all things. Wisdom is all head and no heart.Behold, brother, you are being crushed under the weight of your head. You are dying of old age while you are yet a child.” - James Stephens

72. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” - Rumi

73. “Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers...” - Kelly Bingham

74. “...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me...” - John Geddes

75. “In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” - Christopher Morley

76. “At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.” - Dennis Covington

77. “Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it happen. But at the same time you can not force enlightenment to happen by sheer will. It is like the situation with happiness: you can not force happiness to happen, but you can create the right circumstances for happiness tohappen. You need to be willing to die, to let go of your limited sense of “I”, to achieve enlightenment. I can feel a deepening thirst to die, to dissolve into the silence, in my heart and being.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

78. “It is not many things that modern psychology agress upon, but all the different approaches of psychology agrees on one thing: that people in groups become more stupid. Individually people are more intelligent, because they have to take their own responsibility, but in a group they do not have to take the same responsibility. The two basic power strategies to try to manipulate and gain control over another person are: silencing and attacking. Silencing means to not listen to, to exclude or ignore and not respect a person. Attack can both mean to attack a person directly or to try to discredit a person through lies, to ridicule a person or by spreading malicious rumours. All organizations are more or less dysfunctional. In a dysfunctional group, the members of the group play three different roles: agressor, denier and victim. The agressor is the role that attack and ridicule people, the denier never knows what is going on, there is “no body at home”, and the victim is the resultat of these two roles. It is always easier to follow a group without awareness, than to follow your own heart, to trust your own intelligence, love, truth, silence and creativity.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

79. “The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

80. “The human heart operates from two premises: "I Am Responsible" and "Only Love Works.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

81. “Follow Ur HEART, Not Someone Else’s.” - Akki

82. “Over the vistas broke a cold gray light, such as seen in those false dawns that are neither night nor true morning, when the world and all its contents seem but shapes of mist, formed in vain hope and desire... If you awake from troubled sleep at such a time, you can only sit by the window and think of those that have been lost to you, those that followed your parents into those cold and heartless regions below the grass, silent and dark. Eventually, morning comes and the world resumes its solidity, but another tiny thread of ice has been stitched into your heart forever.” - K.W. Jeter

83. “It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.” - Lawrence Durrell

84. “Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

85. “Lust is a thing of the blood. Doesn't need head or heart.” - Karen Marie Moning

86. “Regalar un libro es fácil hasta que buscas uno para quien te ha robado el corazón.” - Sofía Navarro

87. “When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes.” - Sholem Aleichem

88. “I fix what's broken - except in the heart.” - Bernard Malamud

89. “Many people still believe that “tough guy” means having a camel type muscles rather than a lion heart.” - M.F. Moonzajer

90. “Sometimes both your mind and thoughts are paying the cost of your stupid heart.” - M.F. Moonzajer