117 Valentine's Day quotes to share with loved ones

Valentine's Day is the perfect occasion to express your heartfelt sentiments to those who mean the most to you. Whether you're crafting a card, sharing a romantic message, or looking for the right words to accompany a thoughtful gift, we've got you covered. We've gathered over 100 quotes across categories like sweet, funny, romantic, and even witty, so you can find something perfect for every relationship.

Sweet Valentine's Day quotes

These quotes are pure and filled with warmth — perfect for a significant other, family member, or close friend. 

1. "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." — Oscar Wilde 

2. "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." — Plato 

3. "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." — Victor Hugo 

4. "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." — Dr. Seuss 

5. "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever." — Alfred Tennyson 

6. "All that you are is all that I’ll ever need." — Ed Sheeran, Tenerife Sea 

7. "Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." — Loretta Young 

8. "I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." — Roy Croft

9. "In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours." – Maya Angelou

10. "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." – Audrey Hepburn

11. "You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known — and even that is an understatement." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. "Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin P. Jones

13. "We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created." — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

14. “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” — Oscar Wilde

15. ”Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.” — 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

16. “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Paulo Coelho

17. “I always have many roads to travel, but I take the one which leads to you.” ― Amit Kalantri

Romantic Valentine's Day quotes

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1. "I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you." — Ben Folds, The Luckiest 

2. "I have found the one whom my soul loves." — Song of Solomon 3:4

3. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 

4. "If I know what love is, it is because of you." — Hermann Hesse 

5. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars 

6. "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 

7. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." – Aristotle 

8. "Love is the only reality, and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation." – Rabindranath Tagore 

9. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott 

10. "I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone." – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

11. "You are my heart, my soul, my treasure, my today, my tomorrow, my forever." – Leo Christopher

12. "Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star." — E.E. Cummings

13. "I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times... In life after life, in age after age, forever." — Rabindranath Tagore

14. “You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.” — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

Cute Valentine's Day quotes

1. "I never want to stop making memories with you." — Pierre Jeanty 

2. "You have a place in my heart no one else could ever have." — F. Scott Fitzgerald 

3. "To me, you are perfect." — Love Actually 

4. "Love is a friendship set to music." – Joseph Campbell 

5. "You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." — E.E. Cummings

6. "I’m much more me when I’m with you." — Jerry Maguire

7. “You had me at ‘Hello.’" — Jerry Maguire

8. "Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow." — John Lennon

9. "I wish I had done everything on earth with you." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

10. "I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." — Notting Hill

11. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” — Nikki Giovanni

Flirty Valentine's Day quotes

1. "I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day." — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

2. "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." — When Harry Met Sally 

3. "You're the one that I want, ooh, ooh, honey!" — Grease

4. "You make me want to be a better person." — As Good As It Gets

5. "Kiss me, and you will see how important I am." — Sylvia Plath

6. “The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

7. "I'm so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy." — Jesse Tyler Ferguson

8. “I think of you only twice a day ― when I am alone and when I am with someone else.” — Amit Kalantri

9. “Let me paint your lips with the stars… so that I don’t need to go light-years each night to kiss them…” — Samba Shiva Thadavarthi

10. “If you want me you’re going to have to come and get me.” — Tiffanie DeBartolo

11. “You turn me on from across the room, and I’ll completely melt if you come any closer.” ― Crystal Woods

12. “Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.” ― Samuel Lover

Singles Valentine's Day quotes

1. "Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you’re in." — Kelly Rowland

2. "I am single because I was born that way." — Mae West

3. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." — Lucille Ball

4. "I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude." — Henry David Thoreau

5. "You can’t be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with." — Wayne Dyer

6. "The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves." — Shirley MacLaine

7. "Being single means you're strong enough to wait for what you deserve." — Niall Horan

8. "You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody." — Maya Angelou

9. "I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person." — Oscar Wilde

Platonic Valentine's Day quotes

1. "Friends are the siblings God never gave us." — Mencius

2. "A friend is what the heart needs all the time." — Henry Van Dyke

3. "A true friend is somebody who can make us feel better no matter how bad things may be." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." — Helen Keller

5. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." — Walter Winchell 

6. "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." — Woodrow Wilson 

7. "Friends are the family you choose for yourself." — Jess C. Scott 

8. "True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." — David Tyson 

9. "A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have." — Irish Proverb 

10. "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'" — C.S. Lewis 

11. "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." – Elbert Hubbard

12. "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." — Jim Morrison

13. "Friendship is a sheltering tree." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

14. "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." — Thomas Aquinas

15. "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." — Bernard Meltzer

Funny Valentine's Day quotes

For anyone who appreciates a good laugh, these quotes add a touch of humor to the sentiment. 

1. "Love is being stupid together." — Paul Valéry 

2. "I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?" — Jean Illsley Clarke 

3. "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." — Linda Grayson 

4. "Love is like a backache. It doesn't show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there." — George Burns

5. "I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it." — Elizabeth Evans

6. "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." — Mignon McLaughlin

7. “I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.” — Steve Carell

8. “Love means having to say you’re sorry every fifteen minutes.” — John Lennon

Witty Valentine's Day quotes

For those who appreciate clever and sharp words, these witty quotes are sure to impress. 

1. "We loved with a love that was more than love." — Edgar Allan Poe 

2. "Love is the poetry of the senses." — Honoré de Balzac 

3. "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." — Zora Neale Hurston 

4. "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more." — Jane Austen

5. "I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things." – John Green

6. "There is no remedy for love but to love more." – Henry David Thoreau

7. "You can’t blame gravity for falling in love." — Albert Einstein 

8. "Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away." — Tom Wilson

9. "Love is like a war: easy to begin but very hard to stop." — H.L. Mencken

10. "Where love is, no room is too small." — Talmud 

11. “Love is like pi — natural, irrational, and very important.” – Lisa Hoffman

Silly Valentine's Day quotes

1. "If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?" — Lily Tomlin 

2. "Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch." — Cathy Carlyle

3. "Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time." — Maya Angelou

4. "I love you like a fat kid loves cake." — Scott Adams

5. "Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January." — Jim Gaffigan 

6. "Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are." — Will Ferrell 

7. "Oh, here’s an idea: Let’s make pictures of our internal organs and give them to other people we love on Valentine’s Day. That’s not weird at all." — Jimmy Fallon 

Valentine's Day quotes for kids and parents

1. "A hug is like a boomerang — you get it back right away." — Bil Keane 

2. "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt." — Charles M. Schulz 

3. "I’ve never seen anybody as happy as I am when I’m with you." — Winnie the Pooh 

4. "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." — George Sand 

5. "A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided." — Robert Brault 

6. "I will love you forever, I will like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be." — Robert Munsch, Love You Forever 

7. "A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path." — Agatha Christie

8. "Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life." — Sophocles

9. "The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

10. "Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another." — Richard Garnett

11. "The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature." — Antoine François Prévost

12. "A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us." — Washington Irving

13. "There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation." — James E. Faust

Continuing the love year-round 

Valentine’s Day is about celebrating love in all its forms — romantic, platonic, familial, or even self-love. Whether you’re sharing one of these quotes with your partner, a close friend, or your kids, the most important thing is that it comes from the heart. 

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