163 New Relationship Quotes to Inspire Your Love Story | Paired (2024)

  • "People should fall in love with their eyes closed." —Andy Warhol

  • “Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” — Walter Winchell

  • “The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.” —Woody Allen

  • "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul." —Charles Dickens

  • “The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged, or given an ultimatum.” – Mandy Hale

  • "Fall in love with someone who makes you glad to be different." — Sue Zhao

  • “They slipped away briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • “True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” — François de la Rochefoucauld

  • "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." —A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

  • "To get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with." — Mark Twain

  • “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because the reality is finally better than your dreams.” ―Dr. Seuss

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

  • “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens

  • "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." — Jorge Luis Borges

  • “A successful relationship requires falling in love multiple times, but always with the same person." — Unknown

  • “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” ―Audrey Hepburn

  • "The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it." — Nicholas Sparks

  • “I just need you and some sunsets.” — Atticus

  • “Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” — Vincent Van Gogh

  • "We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun." — ​A. A. Milne

  • “Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.” —Oscar Wilde

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

  • “We cannot really love anyone with whom we never laugh.” — Agnes Repplier

  • "When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then." — Paulo Coelho

  • "Once I knew you I never wanted to know anyone else." — Leo Christopher

  • “You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love … I love … I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.” – Pride and Prejudice

  • “I never want to stop making memories with you.” – Pierre Jeanty

  • "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." — Albert Einstein

  • "That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is." — Nicholas Sparks

  • “Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.” — William Shakespeare

  • "Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." — Oscar Wilde

  • “The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” ― Jane Austen

  • “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ― Helen Keller

  • "Don't ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it." — Toni Morrison

  • "A view of the ocean, mountains, and the sunset. But yet, he was still looking at me." — Aly Aubry

  • “All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.” ― Leo Tolstoy

  • "True love stories never have endings." — Richard Bach

  • “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” ―William Shakespeare

  • “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”— Maya Angelou

  • “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies” ― Aristotle

  • “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” ― Charles Dickens

  • “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” ― Vladimir Nabokov

  • "Promise me you'll never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave." ― A.A. Milne

  • "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." — Lao Tzu

  • "We are asleep until we fall in love." — Leo Tolstoy

  • "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, fulfillment, and a new beginning." — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  • “Happily Ever After is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.” — Fawn Weaver

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

  • “New love is grand. Savor all the crazy, muddled might of it.” ― Eli Easton

  • “Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” — Richard Bach

  • "To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world." — Dr. Seuss

  • “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” ―Nicholas Sparks

  • “My heart is, and always will be, yours.” — Jane Austen

  • “A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself – to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.” ― Leo Buscaglia

  • "Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." — Mother Teresa

  • “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside you.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”— Dalai Lama

  • "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." —Emily Brontë

  • "To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship." — Domenico Cieri Estrada

  • “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” — Sam Keen

  • “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

  • "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." — Andre Breton

  • “In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.” — Theodor Reik

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

  • "Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

  • "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds." — Nicholas Sparks

  • "In the end, there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to." — Robert Brault

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

  • "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." — James Baldwin

  • "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." — Khalil Gibran

  • "To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous." — Elizabeth Gilbert

  • "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

  • "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart." — Helen Keller

  • "Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end." — Madame de Staël

  • "The art of love is largely the art of persistence." — Albert Ellis

  • "In love, one and one are one." — Jean-Paul Sartre

  • "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

  • "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." — Morrie Schwartz

  • “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” — Rumi

  • "The most beautiful thing is to see a person you love smiling. And even more beautiful is knowing that you are the reason behind it." — Unknown

  • "Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." — John Lennon

  • "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." — Victor Hugo

  • "The giving of love is an education in itself." — Eleanor Roosevelt

  • “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou

  • "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not." — Jodi Picoult

  • "In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." — Erich Fromm

  • "In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." — Mignon McLaughlin

  • "Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." — Karl Menninger

  • "Where there is love there is life." — Mahatma Gandhi

  • "Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it." — Rabindranath Tagore

  • "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." — Peter Ustinov

  • "Love is the strongest force the world possesses." — Mahatma Gandhi

  • "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

  • "Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person." — James Thurber

  • "Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other." — Felix Adler

  • “True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.” — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

  • "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

  • “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

  • "Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time." — Germaine De Stael

  • "Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference." — Helen James

  • "We are shaped and fashioned by those we love." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • "Where love reigns, the impossible may be attained." — Indian Proverb

  • “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” — Helen Keller

  • “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

  • “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • "Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom." — Rabindranath Tagore

  • "To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything." — T. Tolis

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

  • "When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before." — Blaise Pascal

  • "Love is not about possession, it’s all about appreciation." — Chinese Proverb

  • "Life is a flower of which love is the honey." — Victor Hugo

  • "Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels." — Greg Evans

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

  • “When love is not madness, it is not love.” — Pedro Calderón de la Barca

  • "The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." — Henry Miller

  • "All you need is love." —The Beatles

  • "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn

  • "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." — Andre Breton

  • “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.” — Nicholas Sparks

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

  • “Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  • "Love is a game that two can play and both can win." — Eva Gabor

  • “In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.” — Maya Angelou

  • “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” — Arrigo Boito

  • "Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before." — Mignon McLaughlin

  • "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

  • "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." — Carl Jung

  • "Sometimes the person you fall for isn’t ready to catch you." — Unknown

  • “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.” — Thomas Merton

  • "Love is an adventure and a conquest." — Simone de Beauvoir

  • "Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever." — Audre Lorde

  • “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost

  • "There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." — Friedrich Nietzsche

  • “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin

  • "In true love, you attain freedom." — Thich Nhat Hanh

  • "To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." — Karen Sunde

  • "Love is the beauty of the soul." — Saint Augustine

  • "To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous." — Elizabeth Gilbert

  • "Love is the flower you've got to let grow." — John Lennon

  • “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • “Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.” — Sylvia Plath

  • “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou

  • "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." — Helen Keller

  • “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” — Donald Miller

  • "The giving of love is an education in itself." — Eleanor Roosevelt

  • "Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one." — Unknown

  • “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” — Jodi Picoult

  • "Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it." — Nicholas Sparks

  • “Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones

  • "In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." — Mignon McLaughlin

  • "A true relationship is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other." — Unknown

  • "Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." — Robert A. Heinlein

  • "Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly." — Sam Keen

  • "A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved." — Leo F. Buscaglia

  • "To love is to burn, to be on fire." — Jane Austen

  • “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss

  • "A relationship is not based on the length of time you spent together, it’s based on the foundation you built together." — Unknown

  • "In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable." — Madame de Stael

  • “What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” — Sinclair Lewis

  • “Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.” — David Byrne

  • "Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do." — David Wilkerson

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