There's a reason why love is the preferred topic of everyone from philosophers to poets, and it's the same reason why romantic movies, songs, and books are so enduringly popular. As the following best love quotes show, there is no better, more powerful emotion in the whole, wide world than being in love. And no matter which of the five love languages you use with your honey, from words of affirmation (expressions of encouragement) to acts of service (helping with chores), it's important to share those beautiful feelings with them upon occasion. Of course, most of us aren't philosophers or poets, which can make putting these kinds of intense sentiments into words difficult.

That's where the best love quotes we've rounded up come into play. Whether you're looking for a cute love quote to make her day, or a famous love quote for him, you're sure to find the perfect way to express your adoration on our list. We've collected the most romantic, deep and inspirational thoughts about love from great minds including Jane Austen, Aristotle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gandhi. Whisper your favorite into your significant other's ear before bedtime, send one in a text at lunch, or jot down another in a sweet card—or do all three! After all, as Henry David Thoreau once said, "There is no remedy for love but to love more."

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    Romantic Love Quotes

    • "She knew she loved him when 'home' went from being a place to being a person." —E. Leventhal
    • "If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you." —DeAnna Anderson
    • "If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love." —Princess Diana
    • "If one day the moon calls you by your name don't be surprised, because every night I tell her about you." —Shahrazad al-Khalij
    • "I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little." —Rae Carson
    • "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be." —Charles Dickens
    • "I will love you all my life and when I die, I will still love you through eternity and beyond." —Leann Rimes
    • "My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding." —Christina White
    • "I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone." —J.R.R. Tolkien
    • "Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." —Rosemonde Gerard
    • "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
    • "If I never see you again I will always carry you inside, outside; on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains." —Charles Bukowski
    • "He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." —Emily Bronte
    • "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    • "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'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me." —Sally Rooney
    • "I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine." —Jamie McGuire
    • "Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will." —Elaine Davis
    • "Your love is better than ice cream, better than anything else I've tried." —Sarah McLachlan
    • "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time." —Julia Child

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    Deep Love Quotes

    • "Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole." —Buddha
    • "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    • "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." —Robert A. Heinlein
    • "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving." —Paulo Coelho
    • "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." —Lao Tzu
    • "Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, and wild leaps." —Ian McEwan
    • "Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing." —Torquato Tasso
    • "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." —Mother Teresa
    • "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." —Zelda Fitzgerald
    • "True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning." —Nicholas Sparks
    • "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything." —Katharine Hepburn
    • "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." —Joan Crawford
    • "When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable." —Jess C. Scott
    • "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not." —Jodi Picoult
    • "Familiar acts are beautiful through love." —Percy Bysshe Shelley
    • "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." —Bertrand Russell
    • "Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost." —Milan Kundera
    • "For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." —Carl Sagan
    • "I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you." —Roy Croft
    • "Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you." —Loretta Young

    Famous Love Quotes

    • "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach..." —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    • "Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you." —Elvis Presley
    • "We're all a little weird, and life's a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it LOVE." —Dr. Seuss
    • "Everywhere I’m looking now, I’m surrounded by your embrace. Baby, I can see your halo. You know you’re my saving grace." —Beyonce
    • "Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love." —William Shakespeare
    • "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." —Plato
    • "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud." —1 Corinthians 13
    • "To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." —Mark Twain
    • "All you need is love." —The Beatles
    • "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." —Aristotle
    • "We loved with a love that was more than love." —Edgar Allan Poe
    • "I have found the one whom my soul loves." —Song of Solomon 3:4
    • "I love you and that’s the beginning and end of everything." —F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • "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
    • "At last, my love has come along. My lonely days are over, and life is like a song." —Etta James
    • "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite." —William Shakespeare
    • "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
    • "You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." —Jane Austen
    • "The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough." —Yoko Ono

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    Inspiring Love Quotes

    • "Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces." —Rumi
    • "One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love!" —Sophocles
    • "Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality." —Emily Dickinson
    • "The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved..." —Victor Hugo
    • "Where there is love there is life." —Mahatma Gandhi
    • "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • "Gifts are temporary and often forgotten; love is forever and always remembered." —Ken Poirot
    • "Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence." —Vincent Van Gogh
    • "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star." —Sinclair Lewis
    • "True love stories never have endings." —Richard Bach
    • "Love never claims, it ever gives. Love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself." —Gandhi
    • "True love is inexhaustible. The more you give, the more you have." —Antoine De Saint-Exupery
    • "What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." —Helen Keller
    • "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while." —William Goldman
    • "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." —Franklin P. Jones
    • "Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." —James Baldwin
    • "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." —Dr. Seuss
    • "A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea." —Honore de Balzac
    • "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." —Leo Tolstoy
    • "If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me." —Rumi

    Short Love Quotes

    • "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." —Audrey Hepburn
    • "Love recognizes no barriers." —Maya Angelou
    • "To love is to burn, to be on fire." —Jane Austen
    • "I love you right up to the moon—and back." —Sam McBratney
    • "You’re the closest to heaven, that I’ll ever be." —Goo Goo Dolls
    • "You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." —e.e. cummings
    • "If I know what love is, it is because of you." —Hermann Hesse
    • "My soul and your soul are forever tangled." —N.R. Hart
    • "Love her but leave her wild." —Atticus
    • "I knew I loved you before I met you." —Savage Garden
    • "Love is friendship on fire." —Susan Sontag
    • "I love you if you love me." —Roberto Cavalli
    • ”I need you like a heart needs a beat." —One Republic
    • "Love is the absence of judgment." —Dalai Lama
    • "Love is, above all, the gift of oneself." —Jean Anouilh
    • "There is no limit to the power of loving." —John Morton
    • "You can’t blame gravity for falling in love." —Albert Einstein
    • "Love is a friendship set to music." —Joseph Campbell
    • "There is no remedy for love but to love more." —Henry David Thoreau
    • "I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you." —Ben Folds
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    Jill Gleeson is a travel journalist and memoirist based in the Appalachian Mountains of western Pennsylvania who has written for websites and publications including Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Country Living, Washingtonian, Gothamist, Canadian Traveller, and EDGE Media Network. Jill is the travel editor for Enchanted Living. Learn more about her journey at gleesonreboots.com.