50 Best Love Quotes That Express Exactly What 'I Love You' Really Means

December 13th, 2018 | Updated on July 22nd, 2022

1. “Loving Someone Is Giving Them The Power To Break Your Heart, But Trusting Them Not To.”― Julianne Moore

2. “Last Night, I Got Up The Courage To Ask You If You Regretted Us. “There Are Things I Miss,” You Said. “But If I Didn’t Have You, I’d Miss More.” ― David Levithan

3. “Love Is A Striking Example Of How Little Reality Means To Us.” ― Marcel Proust

4. “For Women, The Best Aphrodisiacs Are Words. The G-spot Is In The Ears. He Who Looks For It Below There Is Wasting His Time.” ― Isabel Allende

5. “So Long As We Love We Serve; So Long As We Are Loved By Others, I Would Almost Say That We Are Indispensable; And No Man Is Useless While He Has A Friend.”― Robert Louis Stevenson

6. “Hope For Love, Pray For Love, Wish For Love, Dream For Love…but Don’t Put Your Life On Hold Waiting For Love.”― Mandy Hale

7. “Love Is Too Precious To Be Ashamed Of.”― Laurell K. Hamilton

8. “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” -Mother Teresa

9. “Love Cannot Be Forced, Love Cannot Be Coaxed And Teased. It Comes Out Of Heaven, Unasked And Unsought.”― Pearl S

10. “Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, But It Sure Makes The Rest Of You Lonely.”― Charles M. Schulz

11. “The More Boys I Meet The More I Love My Dog.”― Carrie Underwood

12. “We Come To Love Not By Finding A Perfect Person, But By Learning To See An Imperfect Person Perfectly.”― Sam Keen

13. “I Hug Him Tightly. “I Can’t Imagine My Life Without You, Christian. I Love You So Much It Frightens Me.” “me, Too,” He Breathes. “my Life Would Be Empty Without You. I Love You So Much.”― E.L. James

14. “I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair.silent And Starving, I Prowl Through The Streets. Bread Doesnot Nourish Me, Dawn Disrupts Me, All Day I Hunt For The Liquid Measure Of Your Steps.”― Pablo Neruda

15. “I Think You’re Still The Only Person Sharp Enough To Sharpen Someone Like Me.”― Veronica Roth

16. “Love Is The Only Force Capable Of Transforming An Enemy To A Friend.”― Martin Luther King Jr.

17. “The Moment Our Lips Met, I Knew With Pure And Piercing Certainty That I Would Have Waited For Him Forever.”― Leigh Bardugo

18. “I Mean, It’s Not Surprising, Really. Once You Love Something, You Always Love It In Some Way. You Have To. It’s, Like, Part Of You For Good.”― Sarah Dessen

19. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” -Khalil Gibran

20. “It Was The First Time I Was Ever In Love, And I Learned A Lot. Before That I’d Never Even Thought About Killing Myself.”― Steven Wright

21. “Love Cures People, Both The Ones Who Give It And The Ones Who Receive It.”― Karl Menninger

22. “I Love You Now For What We’ve Already Shared, And I Love You Now In Anticipation Of All That’s To Come.”― Nicholas Sparks

23. “To Love Means To Realize There Is A Time To Let The Beloved One Go”― Tony Parsons

24. “She Wanted To Cause Him Pain For Taking A Place In Her Heart She Wouldn’t Have Given Him If She’d Known The Truth.”― Kristin Cashore

25. “There Are Many Goals But One Path – The Path Of Compassion.”― Amit Ray

26. “Imagine Going About Your Day Knowing Someone’s Carrying You In Their Mind. That Has To Be The Best Part Of Being In Love- The Feeling Of Having A Home In Some Else’s Brain.”― Becky Albertalli

27. “I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”-F. Scott Fitzgerald

28. “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”-Blaise Pascal

29. “Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”― Wilhelm Reich

30. “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” — Leo Christopher

31. “Compassion Is The Signature Of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence Is The Tool To Evolve Into The Higher Consciousness.”― Amit Ray

32. “Kakabog Ang Dibdib Mo, Kikiligin Ang Kalamnan Mo At Kikirot Ang Puso Mo. Kabog, Kilig, Kirot. Kapag Naramdaman Mo Ang Tatlong K, Umiibig Ka.”― Ricky Lee

33. “Why Is It That Words Like These Seem Dull And Cold? Is It Because There Is No Word Tender Enough To Be Your Name?”― James Joyce

34. “There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.” — Leo Christopher

35. “You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning. ”– Unknown

36. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. ”— Julia Roberts

37. “I Love You Every Day. And Now I Will Miss You Every Day.”― Mitch Albom

38. “Some Girls Are Full Of Heartache And Poetry And Those Are The Kind Of Girls Who Try To Save Wolves Instead Of Running Away From Them.”― Nikita Gill

39. “We Have All Known The Long Loneliness And We Have Learned That The Only Solution Is Love And That Love Comes With Community.”― Dorothy Day

40. “ To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

41. “It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.” – Bertrand Russell

42. “I Know…and I Love You. But I Don’t Think We Love Each Other In The Same Way. And…i Think Keeping You Near Me, Would Destroy Me.”― S.C. Stephens

43. “And The Two Of Them Loved Each Other For A Long Time In Silence Without Making Love Again.”― Gabriel García Márquez

44. “The Ink Of The Scholar Is More Holy Than The Blood Of The Martyr.”― Anonymous

45. “Love Is The Only Future God Offers.”― Victor Hugo

46. “Friends Ask You Questions; Enemies Question You.”― Criss Jami

47. “We Are Made Of All Those Who Have Built And Broken Us.”― Atticus Poetry

48. “I Love You Beyond Paint, Beyond Melodies, Beyond Words. And I Hope You Will Always Feel That, Even When I’m Not Around To Tell You So.”― Kiera Cass

49. “Nico Studied His Face – His Sea-green Eyes, His Grin, His Ruffled Black Hair. Somehow Percy Jackson Seemed Like A Regular Guy Now, Not A Mythical Figure. Not Someone To Idolize Or Crush On.”― Rick Riordan

50. “Tucker Strokes My Hair. There’s Something So Tender About The Gesture. It Might As Well Have Been Him Whispering I Love You.”― Cynthia Hand