Oh the love…

Depending on who you ask, he’s “fire that burns without being seen” and for others he’s sweet as honey.

But regardless of how you define it, love can often be difficult to express, whether you’re looking for love messages for Valentine’s Day or a creative way to say I Love You.

Fortunately, we can always turn to the world’s most famous writers, musicians and poets for some insights into the subject – which, of course, brings us to the best love quotes ever.

From swoon-worthy sayings from movies and romance novels to the most romantic Valentine’s Day quotes, these sweet love quotes capture what’s most special about a romantic relationship — whether that love is new or old, passionate romance or true friendship.

If you’re at a loss for words to express exactly how you feel, check out these heartwarming and inspiring quotes from some of the word’s finest artisans – all of which are sure to melt anyone’s heart.

George Sand

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Leo Christopher

I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do now, but I know I will tomorrow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love does not dominate; he cultivates.

Henry Miller

The only thing we never get tired of is love; and the only thing we never give enough is love.

Agatha Christie

It’s a curious thought, but it’s only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them.

Rumi

Love is everything. We are just pieces.

Erich Segal

True love comes silently, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, check your ears.

David Viscott

To love and be loved is to feel the sun on both sides.

Victor Hugo

Life is the flower of which love is the honey.

Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Reese Witherspoon

You always win by giving love.

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Ed Sheeran

Everything you are is everything I need.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love you, and that’s the beginning and end of it all.

Maya Angelou

Love recognizes no barriers.

Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

John Updike

We are most alive when we are in love.

Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.

Ann Landers

Love is friendship that caught fire.

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Lucille Ball

Love yourself first and everything will fall into place.

Albert Einstein

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Princess Diana

If you find someone you love in your life, then cling to that love.

“The Wedding Date”

I think I would miss you even if we never met.

John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars”

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

Frank Sinatra

A simple “I love you” means more than money.

Bryan Adams

Everything I do, I do for you.

Unknown

You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry someone you can’t live without.

Nicholas Sparks, “The Notebook”

I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday.

“Love Actually”

To me, you are perfect.

Winnie-the-Pooh

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus a day, so I never have to live without you.

Richard Bach

True love stories never end.

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Bob Dylan

There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Dolly Parton

Love is something sent from heaven to deeply concern you.

Madonna

Being brave is loving someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.

Dr. Seuss

You know you’re in love when you can’t sleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Rita Rudner

I love being married. It’s so nice to find a special person that you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Audrey Hepburn

The best thing to hold on to in life is each other.

“Gone with the Wind”

You must be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.

“Sixteen Candles”

That’s why they call them passions. If they were easy, they would call them something else.

“Bridget Jones Diary”

I really like you. Just as you are.

Meghan Markle

Personally, I love a great love story.

John Lennon

Love is the flower; you have to let it grow.

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Celine Dion

Maybe I don’t know much, but I know it’s true, I was blessed because I was loved by you.

“When Harry Met Sally”

When you realize that you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

James Joyce

Love loves to love love.

Zelda Fitzgerald

No one has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can contain.

Beyonce

Love is an infinite act of forgiveness.

Charles M. Schulz

All you need is Love. But a little chocolate every now and then doesn’t hurt.

Katy Perry

First, self-love, and second, giving love.

mother Teresa

A smile is the beginning of love.

“Sex and the City”

Some love stories are not epic romances. Some are short stories, but that doesn’t make them any less full of love.

The Beatles

All you need is Love.

Nat King Cole

Love was made for you and me.

Kelly Clarkson

I had never lived before your love.

Plato

With the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Maya Angelou

In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

“You’ve Got Mail”

I wish it were you. I so wanted it to be you.

Jerry Maguire

You caught me on that hi.

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Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist”

When we love, we always strive to be better than we are. When we strive to be better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Pablo Neruda

Feeling the love of the people we love is a fire that feeds our life.

Oscar Wilde

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.

David Byrne

Sometimes it’s a form of love to just talk to someone you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Rumi

Your task is not to seek love, but only to seek and find all the barriers within you that you have built against it.

Leo Tolstoy

When you love someone, you love them as they are, not as you would like them to be.

Arrigo Boito

When I saw you I fell in love and you smiled because you knew.

Victor Hugo

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Nat King Cole

The best thing you will learn is to love and be loved in return.

EE Cummings

You are my sun, my moon and all my stars.

Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”

You don’t love a person because they’re perfect, you love them despite the fact that they’re not.

Emily Bronte

Whatever our soul, his and mine are the same.

Jessica Katoff

Oh, how silent love can drown out all fear.

Martin Luther King jr.

I decided to stay with love; Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Zelda Fitzgerald

I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and I still love you.

Mr. Darcy, ‘Pride and Prejudice’

In vain I fought. It’s not going to work. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how much I admire and love you dearly.

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