One of those holidays that people either love or despise is Valentine’s Day. If you enjoy it, the day is all about showing love and gratitude to the people you care about, whether it be your spouse, your friends, or your family. If you don’t like it, it’s just another day with more pink, after all. And regardless of the motivation, we can support that.
People who enjoy Valentine’s Day and letter-writing are essentially a circle on the ven diagram. Get inspired by these Valentine’s Day quotes from writers, poets, artists, authors, and performers if you’re intending to write a love letter to your significant other this V-Day but aren’t exactly sure how to convey all those warm, fuzzy sensations your spouse gives you.
55 Valentine’s Day Sayings for Your Best Friends
Let these quotations about love serve as your guide to showing your lover how much they mean to you, whether their words perfectly express what you want to say or they inspire you to write your own poem.
Positive Valentine’s Day sayings
“Love as profoundly as though it were forever every time you love.” [Audre Lorde]
Love is when you feel like you could pass away from the want to be desired. The artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Love is the one word that sets us free from all the burden and suffering of life. — Sophocles
“Looking in the same direction is what love is, it’s not just looking at each other.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The best and most stunning things in the world are invisible and even impossible to touch. They must be experienced emotionally.” —H. Keller
“Being genuinely loved by someone gives you bravery, and being deeply loved by someone gives you strength.” [Lao Tzu]
“Of all the things my hands have handled, you are by far the best,” the speaker said. — Unknown
We felt a love that went beyond simple love. — Poe, Edgar Allan
“True love stories have no conclusion.” [Richard Bach]
“In our case, home is not a physical location. It is someone. And now we are at home.” Stephenie Perkins
“Snow was essential to the Eskimos, so they had fifty-two names for it; there should be the same number for love.” — Margaret Atwood
“When we are in love, we constantly seek to improve. Everything around us improves as we work to become better than we are.” Paul Coelho
“Love causes your soul to emerge from its cave” [Zora Neale Hurston]
Valentine’s Day humor quotes
“You can’t blame falling in love on gravity.” Einstein, Albert
“Love is all you require. But it’s okay to indulge in chocolate every so then.” Charlie M. Schulz
The purpose of love is to make you incredibly anxious. [Dolly Parton]
Marriage is similar to vitamins in that we complete each other’s daily basic needs. — Kathleen Mohnke
It’s a strange realization, but you only realize how much you love someone when you see them looking silly. (Agatha Christie)
“The flame of love. However, you can never be sure if it will burn down your house or just warm your hearth.” Jo Crawford
Valentine’s Day, or Extortion Day as some men prefer to call it, is today. [Jay Leno]
“I adore my marriage. Finding that one person you want to irritate for the rest of your life is such a wonderful thing.” [Rita Rudner]
“Love is a terrible mental illness,” — Plato
“February would be, well, January without Valentine’s Day.” Mr. Gaffigan
“More love and less paperwork is what the world really needs.” [Pearl Bailey]
Although money cannot purchase love, it does strengthen your negotiating position. — Chris Marlowe
“Could you please restate the question if love is the answer?” [Lily Tomlin]
You see, nothing on earth has more metaphysics than chocolates. — Fernando P.
The brain empties while the heart fills up in love, like an hourglass. [Jules Renard]
“Love is not love when it is not crazy.” Pete Calderon de la Barca
The heart has a rationale that reason is ignorant of. Pascal, Blaise
When you have trouble falling asleep because reality has finally surpassed your dreams, you know you’re in love. Theodor Seuss
So that I never have to live without you, if you live to be 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day. ― Famous Valentine’s Day Quotes from Winnie the Pooh
His and mine are the same, whatever our souls are composed of. The Bronte sisters
It all started with me telling her I loved her. Theodore Roosevelt
“To love and be loved is the only true happiness in this life.” — George S.
“Our true destiny is love. We don’t discover life’s purpose on our alone; rather, we do so in community.” Theodore Merton
Love is the uncontrollable yearning to be uncontrollably wanted. [Robert Frost]
“Love has no downsides. Holding back always results in defeat.” Barb De Angelis
“Life exists where love exists.” Muhammad Ali Gandhi
Love simply has to do with what you hope to give, which is everything; it has nothing to do with what you anticipate to receive. Katrina Hepburn
“You are my sun, moon, and every star I have.” “Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” — E.E. Cummings [Elaine Davis]
I am only aware of love because of you. Hismann Hesse
“Love is friendship on fire,” the saying goes. [Ann Landers]
Instead of enduring all the years of this planet alone, “I would rather share one lifetime with you.” J. R. R. Tolkien
“I love you without understanding how, when, or where it came from.” Picasso Neruda
I fell in love the same way you do: gradually and all at once. Mr. Green
“To love is to be vulnerable in some way.” C. S. Lewis
“There is no other heart for me like yours in the entire globe. There is no other love for you like mine in the entire universe.” (Maya Angelou)
No one has ever assessed how much the heart can hold—not even poets. Fitzgerald, Zelda
If I had a flower for each time I had thought of you, I could spend all day in my garden, the saying goes. [Alfred Tennyson]
Valentine’s Day quotes that are sweet
.”I adore you because everything in the cosmos worked together to bring us together,” Paul Coelho
“When we are in love, we are at our most alive.” Mr. Updike
“I adored you because I could see how perfect you were. I liked you much more after realizing that you were flawed.” (Angelita Lim)
The sun is felt from all sides when you love and are loved. Dave Viscott
“You are my life, my heart, and the only thing in my mind.” [Conan Doyle]
Every heart murmurs a melody, but it isn’t complete until another heart responds. — Plato
“I started hunting for you as soon as I learned about my first love, not realizing how foolish that was. Nowhere does a couple eventually find each other. They have always been in each other.” — Rumi
“I don’t care if everyone else forgets as long as you remember me.” Mr. Haruki Murakami
Love is a state in which another person’s pleasure is crucial to your own. Heinlein, Robert
And all of a sudden, you became the subject of every love song. — Not known
You love someone despite the fact that they are imperfect, not because they are flawless. [Jodi Picoult]
“When you love someone, you love them completely as they are, not as you would like them to be,” someone once said. (Leo Tolstoy)
Love, like the wind, is something you can feel but not see. — Nick Sparks
The world became pleasant after “love planted a rose.” [Katherine Lee Bates]
“with me, as we age! Still to come is the finest.” Bob Browning
“The best love is the sort that plants a fire in our hearts and brings tranquility to our brains, the kind that awakens the soul and makes us search for more.” — Nick Sparks
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