Sometimes when it comes time to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard), the words don’t instantly come flowing. And on a day that’s all about expressing your love, simply writing “Happy Valentine’s Day!” just might not cut it.
But you don’t have to be a poet or a master wordsmith to eloquently serenade your valentine with the love-filled message that they deserve—you can just quote one. Whether you’re looking for a lighthearted or funny quip that speaks to the fun side of your relationship, a serious sentiment to declare your feelings, or a poetic verse that captures your devotion, let the pros help you get the romance flowing.
“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 have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.” — Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” — The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” — You Are My Sun, My Moon, and All My Stars by E.E. Cummings
“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
“And suddenly, all the love songs were about you.” — Unknown
“When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you and I’m home.” — Dory in Finding Nemo
“Love at the lips was touch,
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air.”
— To Earthward by Robert Frost
“You don’t marry the person you can live with—you marry the person you can’t live without.” — Unknown
“Walking with your hands in mine and mine in yours, that’s exactly where I want to be always.” — Fawn Weaver
“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.” — Joanne Woodward
“I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.” — Unknown
“You are every lovely word I could think of.” — Unknown
“Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” — Anonymous
“You’re something between a dream and a miracle.” — Elizabeth Barret Browning
“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.” — The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
“Not only Valentine’s, but all my days are about loving you.” — Unknown
“For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.” ― “Cecilia In The Satellite,” by Andrew McMahon
“I may not be your first love, but let me be your last, and I will make sure you never regret it.” — Unknown
“People may fade away from my life, but it’s you I am going to hold on to. You are my everything.” — Anonymous
“You’re the moon of my life, that’s all I know and all I need to know and if this is a dream I will kill the man who tries to wake me.” — Khal Drogo, exchanging wedding vows with Daenerys in 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
“You make me want to be a better man.” — Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets
“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.” – The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
“When I look at you, I see everything I’ve ever wanted.” — Anonymous
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.” — Unknown
“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 in A Knight’s Tale
“You make me happier than I ever thought I could be and if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.” — Chandler, proposing to Monica on Friends
“My love for you is a journey, starting at forever and ending at never.” — Unknown
“Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” — Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning
“Love starts as a feeling,
But to continue is a choice;
And I find myself choosing you
More and more every day.”
— Bending The Universe by Justin Wetch
“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.” — The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
“A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.” — Frank Sinatra
“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” ― Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.” — Rick Warren
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?” — Adam Bede by George Eliot
“It’s amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and suddenly, you can’t remember how you lived without them.” — Anurag Prakash Ray
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” — Mignon McLaughlin
“Our love will bloom always fairer,
Fresher, more gracious,
Because it is a true love”
— Honoré de Balzac
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” — This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Where there is love there is life.” — Ghandi
