Finding the right words to express how you deep down feel can be hard. It may sometimes seem almost impossible.
To help you out with that I’d like to share 160 of the most heartfelt, powerful, beautiful and funny short love quotes.
Ones that will capture exactly how you feel right now about him or her. Ones that will make your husband or wife laugh out loud.
And romantic ones for a boyfriend or girlfriend you’ve started seeing recently and want to get to know better and more deeply for years to come.
I hope you’ll find something helpful here, no matter if you want to use it in a card, as a text or in a post on social media like Instagram or you simply want a little bit of help with what you want to say on your next date.
Short Love Quotes for Him (Sweet Sayings for Your Boyfriend or Husband)
“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”
– Ernest H. Shepard
“I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
– Haruki Murakami
“Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you.”
– From the movie Meet Joe Black
“You are the beat in my heart and the smile on my face.”
– Unknown
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
“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
“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
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
– Roy Croft
“You stole my heart from day one, and I think you should keep it for a lifetime.”
– Unknown
“I love you every minute of my life; you’re my love and my life.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
“In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems.”
– Rumi
“I love you for making me better by loving me.”
– Unknown
“You’re the moon of my life, that’s all I know and all I need to know.”
– Khal Drogo (from the TV-show Game of Thrones)
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
– Leo Christopher
“I may not be your first love, but let me be your last, and I will make sure you never regret it.”
– Unknown
“I found the one my heart loves.”
– Song of Solomon 3:4
“If I could ask God one thing, it would be to stop the moon. Stop the moon and make this night, and your beauty last forever.”
– William Thatcher
“You make me happier than I ever thought I could be.”
– Chandler Bing (from the TV-show Friends)
“If it were in my power, I would choose you to be my valentine every day for the rest of our lives.”
– Unknown
“My love for you is a journey, starting at forever and ending at never.”
– Unknown
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Carl Sagan
“Everything I do, I do it for you.”
– Bryan Adams
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you.”
– William Shakespeare
“I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.”
– Joe Dunthorne
“I’ve been in love with you since the very beginning.”
– Julie James
Short Love Quotes for Her (Messages for Your Girlfriend or Wife)
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.”
– Charlotte Brontë
“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
– E.E. Cummings
“You’re something between a dream and a miracle.”
– Elizabeth Barret Browning
“You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
“Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.”
– Ranata Suzuki
“You are the song that my heart would always want to sing.”
– Unknown
“You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.”
– Taylor Swift
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
– Elizabeth Barret Browning
“You make me want to be a better man.”
– Melvin Udall (from the movie As Good As It Gets)
“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”
– Robert Brault
“I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.”
– Unknown
“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.”
– Henry Wadsworth
“For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.”
– Andrew McMahon
“When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you and I’m home.”
– Dory (from the movie Finding Nemo)
“You are every lovely word I could think of.”
– Unknown
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else.”
– Robert Jordan
“Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
– Nicole Krauss
“When I look at you, I see everything I’ve ever wanted.”
– Anonymous
“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.”
– Leo Christopher
“If I could give you one thing in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes, only then would you realize how special you are to me.”
– Frida Kahlo
“Your hand touching mine. This is how galaxies collide.”
– Sanober Khan
“If I had to dream up the perfect woman, she wouldn’t even come close to you.”
– Cory (from the TV-show Boy Meets World)
“Your love warms me like a blanket.”
– Unknown
“I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.”
– Ben Folds
Short and Deep Love Quotes for Couples
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Brontë
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.”
– Madonna
“True love is eternal, infinite and always like itself.”
– Honore de Balzac
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
– George Sand
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
– Victor Hugo
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“True love stories never have endings.”
– Richard Bach
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
– Sophocles
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
– Maya Angelou
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
– Stephen Chbosky
“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Where there is love there is life.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
– Victor Hugo
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
– Rumi
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
– Honore de Balzac
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us.”
– Paulo Coelho
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
– Ann Landers
“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
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
– Blaise Pascal
“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.”
– Paul McCartney
Funny and Short Love Quotes
“If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?”
– Lily Tomlin
“Love is being stupid together.”
– Paul Valery
“Without Valentine’s Day, February would be…well, January.”
– Jim Gaffigan
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
– Charles Schulz
“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”
– Rodney Dangerfield
“As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy.”
– Ralphie May
“Valentine’s Day is the poet’s holiday.”
– Eva Gabor
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
– Albert Einstein
“Today is Valentine’s Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!”
– Jay Leno
“Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on x-rays, but you know it’s there.”
– George Burns
“It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.”
– Lucille Ball
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Remember, your Valentine’s card shows you care enough to send the very best, even though you’re too lazy to put it in your own words.”
– Melanie White
“A man’s main job is to protect his woman from her desire to ‘get bangs’ every other month.”
– Dax Shepard
“Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.”
– Lisa Hoffman
“Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.”
– Dolly Parton
“True love is singing karaoke ‘Under Pressure’ and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.”
– Mindy Kaling
“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
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
– Joan Crawford
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
– Oscar Wilde
“People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.”
– Dr. Seuss
“I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.”
– Elizabeth Evans
“My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.”
– Garry Shandling
“Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; it is also three-meals-a-day and remembering to carry out the trash.”
– Joyce Brothers
“Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.”
– Thomas Dewar
Aesthetic, Romantic and Meaningful Short Love Quotes
“You had me at hello.”
– Jerry Maguire
“I saw when I met you that you were a treasure I had to guard with my heart.”
– Shannon Hale
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle
“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.”
– Nora Ephron
“Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being.”
– Barbara Fredrickson
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
– Jane Austen
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly and then all at once.”
– John Green
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Everything is clearer when you’re in love.”
– John Lennon
“Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.”
– Unknown
“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.”
– Rick Warren
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”
– Eva Gabor
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
– Vladimir Nabokov
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
– Mother Teresa
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
– Plato
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
– Pablo Neruda
“Love understands love; it needs no talk.”
– Frances Havergal
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life.”
– George Eliot
“The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.”
– Edward Thomas
“Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul that you never knew was missing.”
– Torquato Tasso
“In your arms, I find my home and my heart finally finds peace.”
– Unknown
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.”
– Rumi
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
– Voltaire
“Love is like the wind; you can’t see it, but you can feel it.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
– Judy Garland
“Love is not finding someone to live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without.”
– Rafael Ortiz
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
– Dr. Seuss
Very Short Love Quotes for Him and Her
“You call it madness, but I call it love.”
– Don Byas
“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
“All you need is love.”
– Paul McCartney
“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Franklin P. Jones
“I’m here. I love you.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
– Saint Augustine
“Love is sharing your popcorn.”
– Charles Schultz
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
– Arrigo Boito
“I want to be with you until my last page.”
– A.R. Asher
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
– Charles Dickens
“Love was made for me and you.”
– Nat King Cole
“Love is never wrong.”
– Melissa Etheridge
“I’m yours, no refunds.”
– Unknown
“Art, like love, moves the heart in unexpected directions.”
– Marty Rubin
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning
“The best proof of love is trust.”
– Joyce Brothers
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
“I love our story. Sure, it’s messy, but it’s the story that got us here, about to get married.
– Barney Stinson (from the TV-show How I Met Your Mother)
“I got you babe.”
– Sonny and Cher
“Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.”
– Unknown
“Love loves to love love.”
– James Joyce
“I was made for loving you.”
– KISS
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
– Katharine Lee Bates
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
– William Shakespeare
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.”
– T. Tolis
Want more uplifting and timeless wisdom about love? Then take a look at the many love quotes here, these short and romantic quotes and also the the top 35 love quotes for him in this post. Plus, this one with long distance relationship quotes and this one with funny love quotes.