Love literature? Love love? You’re in good company. There’s something about a beautifully written line in a novel or poem that captures romance in a way no text message ever could. Whether you’re falling head over heels or trying to put decades of devotion into words, these 100 romantic quotes from books, poems and literature are here to help you say exactly what’s in your heart.
From Jane Austen's timeless wit to Rumi’s soulful poetry and Shakespeare’s unforgettable declarations of love, this collection spans centuries of longing, passion, and deep, soul-level connection.
So if you’re searching for the perfect quote to write in a love letter, toast at a wedding, or whisper to your favorite person - start here. These are the kind of lines that make hearts skip beats.
- "You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." – E.E. Cummings
- "My heart is, and always will be, yours." – Jane Austen
- "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." – Emily Brontë
- "I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." – J.R.R. Tolkien
- "Just in case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you." – Virginia Woolf
- "I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- "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
- "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever."– Alfred Tennyson
- "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." – Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you” – Rumi
- “I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.” – Rumi
- "I would not wish any companion in the world but you." – William Shakespeare
- "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)." – E.E. Cummings
- "In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems." – Rumi
- “Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.” – Ernest Hemingway
- "When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew." – Arrigo Boito
- "You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known – and even that is an understatement." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be." – Robert Browning
- “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.” – Rumi
- "If I know what love is, it is because of you." – Hermann Hesse
- “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds” - Shakespeare
- “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” – Charles Dickens
- "You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." – Jane Austen
- "I love her and that is the beginning and end of everything." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." – Vladimir Nabokov
- "I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me." – Rumi
- "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." – Lao Tzu
- There are darknesses in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights, the light of all lights." – Bram Stoker
- “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; So I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.” – Pablo Neruda
- “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” – Jane Austen
- "We loved with a love that was more than love." – Edgar Allan Poe
- “Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” – Khalil Gibran
- “You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.” - Rabindranath Tagore
- “Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds.” – Izumi Shikibu
- “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.” – Hafiz
- “I have no use for divine patience - My lips are now burning and everywhere. I am running from every corner of this earth and sky Wanting to kiss you.” – Hafiz
- “When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world – no matter how imperfect – becomes rich and beautiful” – Søren Kierkegaard
- "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." – Plato
- "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
- “Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
- “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age, forever.” – Rabindranath Tagore
- "It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment." – Gabriel García Márquez
- "I have for the first time found what I can truly love – I have found you." – Charlotte Brontë
- "You don't love because, you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults." – William Faulkner
- “Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.” – Mark Twain
- “I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” – Gabriel García Márquez
- "He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “I do love nothing in the world so well as you.” – Shakespeare
- “Now, I’m not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty. As I got to know you, I began to realise that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it. I didn’t understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life.” – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- "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." – Boris Pasternak
- “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” – Jane Austen
- “It has made me better loving you ... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter.” – Henry James
- “We are asleep until we fall in love!” – Leo Tolstoy
- “Hear my soul speak. The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service.” – Shakespeare
- “What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?” – George Eliot
- “He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.” – William Goldman
- "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be." – Charles Dickens
- “I wish I had done everything on earth with you” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” – Pablo Neruda
- Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
- “I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
- “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
- “He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.” – W.H. Auden
- “You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” – Margaret Mitchell
- “I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” – E.M. Foster
- “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – Paulo Coelho
- "We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright." – Ernest Hemingway.
- “I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world” – Frank O’Hara
- “This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- "I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning." – Haruki Murakami
- If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” – Haruki Murakami
- “Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches." – William Goldman
- “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” – Stephanie Perkins
- “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult
- "You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had." – Nicholas Sparks
- “I like myself better when I’m with you.” – Mitch Albom
- "If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one." – Michelle Hodkin
- “Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.” – Toni Morrison
- “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.” – Madeline Miller
- "Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?" – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “I exist in two places, here and where you are.” – Margaret Atwood
- “You are sunlight through a window, which I stand in, warmed. My darling.” – Jessie Burton
- "You are, and always have been, my dream." – Nicholas Sparks
- “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green
- “To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
- “True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”– Nicholas Sparks
- “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. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever" – Nicholas Sparks
- “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
- "If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever." – A.A. Milne
- "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time." – A.A. Milne
- "I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen." – A.A. Milne
- “Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.” – A.A. Milne
- “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.” – Lisa Kleypas
- “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” – Kiersten White
- “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.” – Madeline Miller
- “And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won't just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight..." – Phillip Pullman
- “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
- “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
- “Always.” – J.K. Rowling
