92 Heartfelt Valentine's Day Quotes To Spread The Love

From short and sweet to cute and funny, these quotes help show your valentine some love.

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Send heartfelt Valentine's Day messages with quotes that are perfect for family, friends, and that special someone. Valentine's Day is filled with decadent chocolates, sentimental Hallmark cards, and an abundance of red paper hearts. But this swoon-worthy holiday isn't just for budding romances. It's a day to celebrate love in all of its bright and rare forms: love lost, present love, and loving yourself. February 14 is a significant reminder to cherish and love all of the people that are in your life, whether in a card, text, or Instagram post. If you find yourself at a loss for words, we have you covered with the most thoughtful and heartfelt Valentine's Day quotes to share with the people that matter the most, from your darling sweetheart to your beloved family.

Happy Valentine's Day Quotes

Love and Life Quote Valentine's Day
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  • "Where there is love, there is life." —Mahatma Gandhi
  • "You can't blame gravity for falling in love." —Albert Einstein
  • "Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever." —Audre Lorde
  • "Love is friendship that has caught on fire." —Ann Landers
  • "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." —A.A. Milne
  • "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." —Robert A. Heinlein
  • "We loved with a love that was more than love." —Edgar Allan Poe
  • "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • "True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses." —Ana Claudia Antunes
  • "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." —William Shakespeare
  • "We accept the love we think we deserve." —Stephen Chbosky
  • "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart." —Jane Austen
  • "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." —Dr. Seuss
  • "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
  • "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." —John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
  • "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." —Lao Tzu
  • "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." —Sophocles
  • "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love in spite of the fact that they're not." —Jodi Picoult
  • "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving." —Paulo Coelho
  • "I came here tonight because 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
  • "We are all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love. True love." —Robert Fulghum
  • "There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment." —Sarah Dessen
  • "That's because love is never stationary. In the end, love doesn't just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it. Simply put: love does." —Bob Goff

Funny Valentine's Day Quotes

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  • "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever." —Alfred Tennyson
  • "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." —Rita Rudner
  • "Marriage is like vitamins: we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements." —Kathy Mohnke
  • "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." —Charles M. Schulz
  • "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
  • "Love is blind but marriage is a real eye-opener." —Pauline Thomason
  • “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” —H. L. Mencken
  • “A man's main job is to protect his woman from her desire to ‘get bangs’ every other month.” —Dax Shepard
  • “Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” —Michael Scott, The Office
  • “All my wife wanted for Valentine’s Day was a little card—American Express.” —Milton Berle
  • “Love is sharing your popcorn.” —Charles M. Schulz
  • “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.” —Joan Crawford
  • “I didn’t fall for you, you tripped me!” —Jenny Han, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
  • "Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position." —Christopher Marlowe

Valentine's Day Quotes For Singles

Oscar Wilde Love Oneself Quote
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  • "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." —Oscar Wilde
  • "You deserve the world even if it means giving it to yourself." —R.H. Sin
  • "I never consider myself as single. I like to say that I'm in between romances at the moment." —Carl Henegan
  • "I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude." —Henry David Thoreau
  • "Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary." —Oscar Wilde
  • “If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” —Lily Tomlin
  • “I don’t need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves.” —Shirley MacLaine
  • “Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you’re pretty sexy and you’re taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.” —Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City
  • “Single is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.” —Mandy Hale

Valentine's Day Quotes For Family

Audrey Hepburn Quote About Love
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  • "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." —Audrey Hepburn
  • "If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love." —Maya Angelou
  • "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." —George Sand
  • "Love is like the wind; you can't see it, but you can feel it." —Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
  • "Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." —H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  • "To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that's everything." —T. Tolis
  • “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” —Charles M. Schulz

Valentine's Day Quotes For Husbands And Wives

Valentine's Day Quote About Love
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  • "If I know what love is, it is because of you." —Herman Hesse
  • "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." —Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "True love stories never have endings." —Richard Bach
  • "Love never gives up." —1 Corinthians 13:7
  • "Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." —Aristotle
  • "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where." —Pablo Neruda
  • "He's always loved who I was, and I loved who he was, and we never tried to change each other." —Dolly Parton
  • “Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.” —Loretta Young

Valentine's Day Quotes For Kids

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  • "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart." —A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
  • "For all of the things my hands have held, the best by far is you." —Anonymous
  • "You are proof that love before first sight does exist." —Araceli M
  • "You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars." —E.E. Cummings
  • "Let me love you a little more, before you are not little anymore." —Anonymous
  • “I’ll love you forever. I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” —Robert Munsch, Love You Forever
  • “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” —A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
  • “I love you right up to the moon—and back.” —Sam McBratney, Guess How Much I Love You
  • “Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” —Elaine Davis

Romantic Valentine Messages

Valentine's Day Quote About Life and Love
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  • I can't imagine what life would have been like without you.
  • Valentine's Day only comes once a year, but every day you fill my life with joy. Thank you for all you do in our relationship.
  • No matter where I go, the warmest place will always be in your arms. Sweetheart, I love you today, tomorrow, and forever after.
  • I love you for all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you're yet to be.
  • Falling in love is like looking at the stars. If you pick one out of the billions and stare at it long enough, all the others will melt away.
  • I love all the adventures we have together.
  • As busy as we get, we need to be reminded that we are still sweethearts. Valentine's Day is a good day for me to stop and realize how wonderful you make me feel. Happy Valentine's Day!
  • When I'm with you, the only place I want to be is closer.
  • I love two things, you and the rose. The rose for one day, and you forever.
  • For love I'd do anything. For you, I'd do more.

Valentine's Quotes From Movies, Books, And Songs

Breakfast at Tiffany's with Holly Golightly and Paul Varjak
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  • “People do fall in love. People do belong to each other, because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness.” —Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  • "To me, you are perfect." —Mark, Love Actually
  • “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” —Jennifer Cavalleri, Love Story
  • "Don't forget: I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." —Anna Scott, Notting Hill
  • “Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at ‘hello.’” —Dorothy Boyd, Jerry Maguire
  • "I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you." —Frances “Baby” Houseman, Dirty Dancing
  • "When I first saw you, I felt like I knew you, and I couldn't stop seeing my life with you, and building a family together. One that isn't stuck in the pain of the past. It's very pretty. And so, if you're asking me if my proposition still stands, then my answer is yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes." —The Light Between Oceans
  • "I want all of you, forever, every day. You and me, every day." —Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
  • "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." —Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
  • "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds." —Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
  • “I hope you don't mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you're in the world.” —Elton John
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