Valentine's Day quotes

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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

“Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.”

Ted Kooser (1939) American poet

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

“In love there are two things - bodies and words.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

“Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.”

Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

“There is no escape if love is not there”

Elizabeth George Speare book The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”

Erich Segal (1937–2010) American writer

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“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 (1928–2014) American author and poet

“When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”

John Green book The Fault in Our Stars

“A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

“The future was not what it used to be.”

K. A. Bedford book Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”

Jane Wagner (1935) Playwright, actress

“The world is not the way they tell you it is.”

George Goodman (1930–2014) American author and economics commentator

“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”

Fred Rogers (1928–2003) American television personality

“But that which is useful is the better.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

“Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it… you and you alone make me feel that I am alive… Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”

George Moore (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist

“The friends of my friends are my friends.”

John le Carré book The Mission Song

“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

“Today is Valentine's Day. Or, as men like to call it, extortion day. ”

Jay Leno (1950) American comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor and television host

“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. ”

Миньон МакЛафлин (1913–1983)

“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”

Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”

Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978) Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson