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80 Best Valentine’s Day Quotes for 2026

Valentine’s Day is all about celebrating love in all its forms—romantic, heartfelt, playful, and everything in between. Whether you’re honoring a partner, a longtime love, or someone who simply makes your heart feel at home, the right words can say what sometimes feels impossible to express. From sweet and sentimental to lighthearted and funny, these Valentine’s Day quotes are perfect for cards, captions, and thoughtful gestures that make the day feel even more meaningful.

  • “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt the truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” —Maya Angelou
  • “This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.” —Aberjhani
  • “Love is the beauty of the soul.” —Saint Augestine 
  • “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” —When Harry Met Sally
  • “To love another person is to see the face of God.” —Les Misérables
  • “Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.” —Aberjhani
  • “Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.” —Audre Lorde
  • “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle
  • “Love is the poetry of the senses.” —Honore de Balzac
  • “Valentine’s Day is a love-note to the rest of the year. Graciously, it comes at a perfect time to be savored — that period of calm between winter holiday commotion and spring enticements.” —Jo Lightfoot
  • “You call it madness, but I call it love.” —Don Byas
  • “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” —Voltaire
  • “Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” —Walter Winchell
  • “Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.” —Nicholas Sparks
  • “Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.” —Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” —Loretta Young
  • “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” —Robert Frost
  • “We can only learn to love by loving.” —Iris Murdoch
  • “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” —Winnie the Pooh
  • “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” —Ingrid Bergman
  • “Love is being stupid together.” —Paul Valery
  • “Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” —Elaine Davis
  • “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.” —Katharine Hepburn
  • “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” —Victor Hugo
  • “The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.” —Dalai Lama
  • “I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you’re in the world.” —Elton John
  • “Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” —Robert Heinlein
  • “Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly.” —Rose Franken
  • “And if the stars should ever die, we’ll make our own light, you and I.” —John Mark Green
  • “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” —Charles Dickens
  • “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves- alone we find it with another.” —Thomas Merton
  • “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” —Eva Gabor
  • “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” —Charles M. Schulz
  • “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss
  • “I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” —Rita Rudner
  • “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” —The Chaos of Stars
  • “True love stories never have endings.” —Richard Bach
  • “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” —Pablo Picasso
  • “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” —Leo Christopher
  • “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” —J.R.R. Tolkien 
  • “Where there is love there is life.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “I love that rush, when he folds me into his arms and I can let out a sigh of relief, knowing I’m safe there. Always. —Michelle Poelking
  • “In a world full of temporary things you are a perpetual feeling.” —Sanober Khan
  • “Love is like the wind. You can’t see it, but you can feel it.” —A Walk to Remember
  • “There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.” —Reese Witherspoon
  • “I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.” —The Notebook
  • “I love you not only for what you are but, for what I am when I’m with you.” —Roy Croft
  • “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” —Robert Browning
  • “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.” —Plato
  • “Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.” —Jeanne Moreau
  • “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.” —Sophocles
  • “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho
  • “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It’s loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weakness.” —Ann Landers
  • “Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” —Vincent van Gogh
  • “Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” —Barbara De Angelis
  • “The real lover is a man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” —Marilyn Monroe
  • “You are the person I never knew how to write, and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.” —Tyler Knott Gregson
  • “Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.” —E.E. Cummings
  • “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” —Plato
  • “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. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • “You are what I never knew I always wanted.” —Fools Rush in
  • ”Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” —Elinor Glyn
  • “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give.” —Madonna
  • “I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” —Angelita Lim
  • “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” —Hermann Hesse
  • “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” —Jodi Picoult
  • “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Franklin P. Jones
  • “Love is the whole thing. We are only the pieces.” —Rumi
  • ”My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.” —André Breton
  • “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” —Paulo Coelho
  • “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” —Washington Irving
  • “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
  • “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” —Albert Einstein
  • “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” —Zora Neale Hurston
  • “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” —Thoreau

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Whether you’re writing a card, adding a personal touch to a gift, or sharing a post to mark the day, the right quote can help turn a simple moment into something lasting. Valentine’s Day isn’t about finding the perfect words—it’s about choosing ones that feel true to you and the love you’re celebrating. However you share them, let your words come from the heart and make the day a little more memorable for the people who matter most.

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