Quotes For Her

A collection of quotes on the topic of valentine's day, for her, love, cute.

Best quotes for her

Rumi photo

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51

William Shakespeare photo

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well

Variant: Love all, trust a few.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well

Hermann Hesse photo

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

Hermann Hesse book Narcissus and Goldmund

Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)

Pablo Neruda photo

“Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”

Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.
"Tonight I Can Write" (Puedo Escribir), XX, p. 51.
Variant: Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)

Henry David Thoreau photo

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Variant: The only remedy for love is to love more.

Stephen King photo

“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Source: Doctor Sleep

Libba Bray photo

“To live is to love, to love is to live.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

Iris Murdoch book The Bell

The Bell (1958), ch. 19; 2001, p. 219.

Quotes For Her

Ella Fitzgerald photo

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) American jazz singer
Success , love , Wise , For women
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

'Where Do We Go From Here?" as published in Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62; many statements in this book, or slight variants of them, were also part of his address Where Do We Go From Here?" which has a section below. A common variant appearing at least as early as 1968 has "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence..." An early version of the speech as published in A Martin Luther King Treasury (1964), p. 173, has : "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate..."
1960s
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Context: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. … Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Motivational , Inspirational , Attitude , Success
Emily Brontë photo

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Variant: Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
Source: Wuthering Heights

love , Cute , Romantic , Wedding
Angelina Jolie photo

“We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
love , Relationship , Wedding , For Him
Elizabeth Barrett Browning photo

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
love , Cute , Romantic , Anniversary
James Baldwin photo

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

James Baldwin book Nobody Knows My Name

"In Search of a Majority: An Address" (Feb 1960); reprinted in Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_My_Name (1961)

love , Wise , Relationship , Cute
Pablo Neruda photo

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets

love , Good Night , Cute , Romantic
Alfred, Lord Tennyson photo

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
For Wife , love , Missing You , Relationship
Paulo Coelho photo

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

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

love , Relationship , Cute , Romantic
Gertrude Stein photo

“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
love , Depressing , Inspirational , Leadership
Thomas Merton photo

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Variant: Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.
Source: Love and Living

love , Heart Touching , Valentine's Day , Wedding
Bertrand Russell photo

“It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
love , Relationship , Cute , Romantic
Sophia Loren photo

“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.

Beauty , Beauty
Vladimir Nabokov photo

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

Source: Lolita

love , Cute , Romantic , Anniversary
George Strait photo

“Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”

George Strait (1952) American country music singer, actor and music producer

Variant: Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.

For Wife , love , Goodbye , Cute
Thomas Aquinas photo

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
love , Love
Elizabeth Gilbert photo

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

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

Source: Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything

love , Cute , Heart Touching , Romantic
André Gide photo

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

Frequently misattributed to Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain.
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=xUtdDnEhkMMC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false
Source: Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d'automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)

Sad , love , Wise , Courageous
Marilyn Monroe photo

“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variant: Sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together.

Heartbreaking , Sad , love , Cute
Thomas Aquinas photo

“To love is to will the good of the other.”

Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica

II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)

Courageous , For Wife , Sad , love
Rumi photo

“Appear as you are, be as you appear.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Paulo Coelho photo

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

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

Love , Heartbreaking , Sad , love
Elizabeth Barrett Browning photo

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
For Wife , love , Good Night , Cute
Robin S. Sharma photo

“the purpose of life is the life of purpose”

Robin S. Sharma book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Success , Depressing , Happy , Life
Cassandra Clare photo

“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Jace to Clary, pg. 331
Variant: There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Glass (2009)

love , Relationship , Cute , Romantic
Jenny Han photo

“It's the imperfections that make things beautiful”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Beauty , Beauty
Yogi Berra photo

“No matter where you go, there you are”

Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach

Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes

For women , Deep , Happy , For Team
Robert Fulghum photo

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

Variant: You want my opinion? We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
Source: True Love (1998)

love , Wise , Relationship , Cute
Gianni Agnelli photo

“There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful woman.”

Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003) Italian businessman

Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)

Beauty , Beauty
Jon Bon Jovi photo

“Without love, there's nothing without love.”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician

Without Love
Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)

For Wife , love , Hope , Cute
Alfred, Lord Tennyson photo

“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Heartbreaking , love , Wise , Hurtful
Charles M. Schulz photo

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”

Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American cartoonist
love , Funny , Positive , Relationship
A.A. Milne photo

“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 (1882–1956) British author
For Wife , love , Friendship , Relationship
Marya Hornbacher photo

“There is, in the end, the letting go.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Sad , love , Wise , Heartbreaking
Nicholas Sparks photo

“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.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

love , Relationship , Good Night , Good Morning
Oscar Wilde photo

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

Oscar Wilde book Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

love , Cute , Romantic , Love
Oscar Wilde photo

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Gwendolen, Act III.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Variant: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Romantic , Life , Waiting
George Orwell photo

“What happens to you here is forever.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

Marilyn Monroe photo

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
love , Cute , Heart Touching , Romantic
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo

“I love her and that's the beginning of everything…”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Variant: I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

love , Relationship , Cute , Romantic
Robert A. Heinlein photo

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

"Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)

love , Wise , Happy , Relationship
Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
love , Relationship , Cute , Romantic
Pablo Neruda photo

“I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

love , Relationship , Cute , Romantic
Borís Pasternak photo

“I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Variant: I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.
Source: Doctor Zhivago (1957)

For Wife , Love
Eric Rücker Eddison photo

“I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”

Eric Rücker Eddison book A Fish Dinner in Memison

A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941)
Context: The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.

Attitude , For Wife , Back To Work , Anniversary
David Bowie photo

“As long as there's me
As long as there's you”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

"Where Are We Now?" (2013)
Song lyrics, The Next Day (2013)
Context: Where are we now?
Where are we now?
The moment you know
You know, you know
As long as there's sun
As long as there's sun
As long as there's rain
As long as there's rain
As long as there's fire
As long as there's fire
As long as there's me
As long as there's you

Sad , Missing You , Goodbye , Heart Touching
Fyodor Dostoyevsky photo

“Love life more than the meaning of it.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Los hermanos Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov (Bratři Karamazovi)

For Wife , love , Romantic , For Him
Eleanor Roosevelt photo

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
love , Cute , Romantic , Valentine's Day

“You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.”

Barbara De Angelis (1951) American psychologist

Variant: You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Source: Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul

love , For women , Relationship , Cute
Washington Irving photo

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”

Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States

Attributed to Irving as early as 1883. [Hit and miss : a story of real life, Angie Stewart, Manly, Chicago, J.L. Regan, 1883, i, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435018229575?urlappend=%3Bseq=7] However, it does not seem to appear in Irving's known works. Other citations from the same year leave the quotation unattributed. [Henry S. (ed.), Clubb, The Peacemaker and Court of Arbitration, Volume 1, Universal Peace Union, 1883, 125, Philadelphia, https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu84AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA125] [The Australian Women's Magazine and Domestic Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1883), 1883, Melbourne, 435, https://books.google.com/books?id=mq0sAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA435]. A similar passage is found in a pseudonymous novel published two years earlier in 1881: "Julia knew that sacrifices to patience are not in vain. Although they often do not produce the happiness for which they are made, they will, always, flow back and soften and purify the heart of the one who makes them". [Illma, Or, Which was Wife?, Miss, M.L.A., Cornwell & Johnson, 1881, 239, New York, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435017658592?urlappend=%3Bseq=245]
Disputed

Heartbreaking , love , Relationship , Cute
André Breton photo

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Source: What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

love , Cute , Romantic , Love
Rabindranath Tagore photo

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
For Wife , love , Cute , Heart Touching
Nicole Krauss photo

“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 The History of Love

Variant: Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 11

love , Relationship , Good Night , Cute
William Goldman photo

“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

For Wife , love , Good Night , Cute
Elbert Hubbard photo

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
love , Relationship , Cute , Romantic
Nicholas Sparks photo

“I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

For Wife , love , Good Night , Cute
Paulo Coelho photo

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Deep , love , Relationship , Cute
Judy Garland photo

“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 (1922–1969) actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States
love , Good Morning , Cute , Romantic
Robert Frost photo

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

As quoted in a review of A Swinger of Birches (1957) by Sydney Cox in Vermont History, Vol. 25 (1957), p. 355
1950s

love , Cute , Romantic , Valentine's Day
William Shakespeare photo

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: King Henry V

love , Cute , Romantic , Love
Hunter S. Thompson photo

“As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

For women , Attitude , love , Hope
Bob Marley photo

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
love , Romantic , For Him , Life
Maya Angelou photo

“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Variant: Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

love , Cute , Heart Touching , Romantic
Borís Pasternak photo

“You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

love , Relationship , Cute , Romantic
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“I have decided to stick to love… Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

love , Wise , Peaceful , Cute
Arthur Conan Doyle photo

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The White Company

The White Company (1891)

love , Relationship , Good Night , Romantic
Fernando Pessoa photo

“That's not my love; that's just your life.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Isso não é o meu amor; é apenas a sua vida.

Attitude , Birthday , For Wife , love
Common (rapper) photo

“Granted we known each other for some time
but it don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine”

Common (rapper) (1972) American rapper, actor and author from Illinois

"The Light" (Track 7)
Albums, Like Water for Chocolate (2000)

love , Cute , Romantic , Time
Diana, Princess of Wales photo

“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”

Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

"Princess Diana: 10 most inspiring quotes from the 'people's princess'", Hello Magazine, Daily News (1 July 2015)

love , For women , Good Night , Cute
Sophocles photo

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”

Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus

Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18

For Wife , love , Wise , Hurtful
Florbela Espanca photo

“To live is to not know that one is living”

Florbela Espanca (1894–1930) Portuguese poet

Diary (20 April, 1930), quoted in Afinado desconcerto (2002), p. 262
Context: Sometimes I start looking at the mirror and examining myself, feature by feature: eyes, mouth, shape of the forehead, eyelids curve, the face line... And this vulgar and hideous-looking, grotesque and miserable amalgam, would it know how to do verses? Oh, no! There is something else … but what? After all, why think? To live is to not know that one is living... Why don't I forget that I am living... to live?

Beauty , love , Wise , Depressing

“Each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday but less than tomorrow. ”

Роземонд Жерар (1871–1953)
For Wife , love , Good Night , Cute

“Love is wholeness, with no searching.”

Jakub Tencl (1978) Czech clinical hypnotherapist and writer

Source: The mystery of life : you are the light, and that's indestructible truth, Tencl, Jakub,, 9781512399882, [United Kingdom? https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914353319,, 914353319]

For Him , For Boyfriend , Love , Making love
Nagarjuna photo

“I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.”

Nagarjuna (150–250) Indian philosopher

That frightens all the childish
And extinguishes fear in the wise.

§ 26
Major attributed works, Ratnāvalī (Precious Garland)

Inspirational , Attitude , love , Wise