15 Love Quotes to Help You Express How You Really Feel

Expressing how you feel is challenging - fortunately, love quotes,  and more can help give you the words you’re unable to find on your own. This year, on any occasion you’re celebrating with your love, whether it’s  an anniversary, or something else, consider pairing your romantic confessions with these top quotes about love, drawn from world-famous writers, thinkers, books, plays, and more.

One of the  is saying “I love you” often; if you’re looking for some fresh, different words to express the same sentiment, consider repeating a love quote to your partner or writing one in a card for your anniversary. There’s a lot to be said for those three little words, but changing up how you express your love from time to time can remind you both why you fell in love in the first place. And for non-romantic relationships, there are still plenty of ways to express your gratitude and platonic love for friends and family members.

Our collection of the best quotes about love includes everything from love quotes for him, love quotes for her, funny love quotes, romantic love quotes, inspirational love quotes, and every other type of love quote you can think of. (There are near-endless ways to say “I love you”—who knew?)

Whether you’re the couple to follow all the  you know or you prefer a more relaxed, casual love, one of these sayings and messages will speak to you—it might even be the perfect accompaniment to your  or anniversary gifts this year.

1. “The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved.”

- Victor Hugo -

2. “We accept the love we think we deserve.”

- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower -

3. “I love you directly without problems or pride: / I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love…”

- Pablo Neruda -

4. “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”

- Marilyn Monroe -

5. “Personally, I love a great love story.”

– Meghan Markle -

6. “When one sees something especially wonderful, it’s always nice to have someone to share it with.”

- Mary Anne Schwalbe -

7. “When one loves, one does not calculate.”

- Saint Thérèse of Lisieux -

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

- Sophocles -

9. “When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”

- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina -

10. “She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies; / And all that’s best of dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes…”

- Lord Byron -

11. “But true love is a durable fire / In the mind ever burning; / Never sick, never old, never dead, / From itself never turning.”

- Sir Walter Ralegh -

12. “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.”

- Will Ferrell -

13. “‘Love’ is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

- Robert A. Heinlein -

14. “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

- Robert Browning -

15.“About you there is nothing I wouldn’t want to know / With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler…”

- Peter Gizzi -