105 ‘I Love You’ Quotes and Messages

     105 ‘I Love You’ Quotes and Messages

True love. It’s both our greatest accomplishment and our most elusive prize. It’s an emotion that has more sparkles than a diamond and just as many facets, too. There’s eros and agape and storge and philia — That is, there is erotic and Godly and parental and brotherly love.

 

 

 

Famous Love Quotes

 

1. “To love is to recognize yourself in another.” — Eckhart Tolle

2. “Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi

3. “I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

4. ”Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.” — 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

5. “Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken.” — Amy Poehler

6. “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” — Marilyn Monroe

7. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo

8. “I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.” — Song of Solomon 6:3

9. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” ― Plato

10. “And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God.” — Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

11. “To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” — Anonymous

 

Romantic Love Quotes

 

1. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allen Poe

2. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss

3. ”You don’t marry someone you can live with — you marry someone you cannot live without.” — Anonymous

4. “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

5. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” — Loretta Young

6. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

7. “When I see your face, there’s not a thing that I would change, ’cause you’re amazing – just the way you are.” — Bruno Mars

8. “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” — Valerie Lombardo

9. “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ” ― Elinor Glyn

10. “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Bronte

11. “Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.” — Elvis Presley

12. “There’s all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important.” — Helen Fisher

 

Cute and Humorous Love Quotes

 

1. “All’s fair in love and basketball.” — Quincy, Love and Basketball

2. “My soul and your soul are forever tangled.” — N.R. Hart

3. “Love is being stupid together.” — Paul Valery

4. ”When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” ― Arrigo Boito

5. ”It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” ― Vladimir Nabokov

6. “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.” — Harry Burns, When Harry Met Sally

7. “Your love is better than ice cream.” — Sarah McLachlan

 

Inspirational Love Quotes

 

1. “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

2. “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” — The Holy Bible

3. “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” — Rumi

4. “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” — Haruki Murakami

5. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” — Julia Robers

6. “If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you.” — DeAnna Anderson

7. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

8. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” ― Sophocles

 

Love Quotes From Movies and Books

 

1. “You make me want to be a better man.” – Melvin Udall, As Good as It Gets

2. “You complete me.” — Jerry Maguire, Jerry Maguire

3. “Any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.” — Alex Hitchens, Hitch

4. “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day…” – Noah Calhoun, The Notebook

5. “I’m not a smart man… but I know what love is.” — Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump

6. “That moment when you kiss someone, and everything around you becomes hazy, and the only thing in focus is you and this person, and you realize that that person is the only person that you’re suppose to kiss for the rest of your life.” — Josie Geller, Never Been Kissed

7. “Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together… and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home… only to no home I’d ever known… I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like… magic.” – Sam Baldwin, Sleepless in Seattle

8. “There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love.” – Don Juan, Don Juan DeMarco

9. “My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.” — Hazel Grace Lancaster, The Fault in Our Stars

10. “People do fall in love. People do belong to each other because that’s the only chance that anyone’s got for true happiness.” — Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

11. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

12. “I have loved her even when I hated her…” – Cal Weaver, Crazy, Stupid, Love

13. “What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey, that’s a pretty good idea. I’ll give you the moon.” — George Bailey, It’s a Wonderful Life

14. “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” — Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

15. “I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

 

Love Quotes for Your Mom

 

1. “My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.” — Michelle Obama

2. “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

3. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” — William Makepeace Thackeray

4. “He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” — JK Rowling

5. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

6. “There is no greater heaven the heart of a loving mother.” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

7. “He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.” ― Kahlil Gibran

8. “Ever wondered what melts like wax for the suffering of her children and hardens like granite to protect them? — The heart of a mother.” ― Rohit Dharupta, Order of the World

9. “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” — Mitch Albom

10. “She is the creature of life, the giver of life, and the giver of abundant love, care and protection. Such are the great qualities of a mother. The bond between a mother and her child is the only real and purest bond in the world, the only true love we can ever find in our lifetime.” ― Ama H.Vanniarachchy

11. “We love our mother unknowingly, and only realize how deep-rooted that love is at the ultimate separation.” ― Guy de Maupassant

12. ”We are born of love; love is our mother.” — Rumi

 

Love Quotes for Your Dad

 

1. “Fathers are the first friend you make and the last love of your life.” — Anonymous

2. “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.” ― Prevost Abbe, Manon Lescaut

3. “That was when the world wasn’t so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.” ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

4. “When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, “My father died, my father died.” My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?”― Kiran Desai

5. “My dad’s my best mate, and he always will be.” — Cher Lloyd

6. “When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.” — Linda Poindexter

7. “If there is any immortality to be had among us human beings, it is certainly only in the love that we leave behind. Fathers like mine don’t ever die.” — Leo Buscaglia

8. “A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.” — Anonymous

9. “There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry.” ― Joni Eareckson Tada

10. “Old as she was, she still missed her Daddy sometimes.” — Glorida Naylor

11. “Lately all my friends are worried they’re turning into their fathers. I’m worried I’m not.” — Dan Zevin

 

Love Quotes for Your Siblings

 

1. “Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything.” — Lauren Weisberger

2. When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.” — Antisthenes

3. “ There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.” — Anna Quindlen

4. “I’m the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don’t have anything. It’s hard. I love her too much. That’s what counts.” — Venus Williams

5. “ After a girl is grown, her little brothers — now her protectors — seem like big brothers.” — Terri Guillemets

6. “Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister?” — Alice Walker

7. “ Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.” — Vietnamese Proverb

8. “If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.” — Linda Sunshine

 

Love Quotes for Your Friends

 

1. “Friendship is another word for love.” — Anonymous

2. “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” — Donna Roberts

3. “That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you—the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you—because that is what people are supposed to do.” — Anonymous

4. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou

5. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” — Jean de La Fontaine

6. “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” — Henry van Dyke

7. “How beautiful it is to find someone who asks for nothing but your company.” — Brigitte Nicole

8. “It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” — Gina Barreca

9. “Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.” — Christie Brinkley

10. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

11. “Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.” — Stieg Larsson

12. “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” — Anonymous

 

Poignant Love Quotes

 

1. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

2. “Because of you, I can feel myself slowly, but surely, becoming the me I have always dreamed of being.” — Tyler Knott Gregson

3. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” — Bette Davis

4. “True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.” ― Nicholas Sparks

5. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” — Helen Keller

6. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse

7. “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — The Buddha

8. “Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” — Saint Ignatius

9. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” — Oscar Wilde

 

Oh, love, most sublime! How we love thee. How we long for thee. How we pursue thee with a passion that’s second to none. Love is both as individual as two lovers and as universal as mankind. In these quotes about love, we celebrate love in all its many forms. May they inspire you to ever higher heights!