Forget waxing lyrical in love letters, if you’ve ever struggled to express your feelings or send butterflies into the tummy of the LOYL, romance-speak is where it’s at. That’s why we combed through the internet for these deep relationship quotes that’ll have the LOYL weak in the knees.
Whether you’re looking to strengthen your relationship, or simply remind your partner how you give several fucks about them, these lines are tested and trusted.
1. “I burn for you” Daphne, Bridgerton
2. “You’re perfect. Everything about you is perfect” — Isoken, Isoken
3. “You bring me more joy than a public holiday.”
4. “Nigeria may not give me peace of mind, but you do.”
5. “When you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want that moment to start as soon as possible.” — Harry, When Harry Met Sally
6. “I love you. I’ve said it more times than I can count under my breath. I’ve wanted to say it for a while. But I knew you needed time. I know you think you’re not wired for it and you claim you have this big black heart and are incapable of love. But I see you. I see all of you.” — Jenn McMahon, That First Date
7. “I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.” — Noah, The Notebook
8. “Your love is like the wind. I can’t see it but I can feel it.” — Lola, A Million Tears
9. “I’ve come here with no expectations, only to profess now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours.” — Mr Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
10. “I would rather have had one breath of your hair, one kiss from your mouth, one touch of your hand, than eternity without it.” — Nicholas Cage, City of Angels
11. “I’ll never let go, Jack. I’ll never let go.” — Rose, Titanic
12. “You jump, I jump.” — Rose, Titanic
13. “I like living alone, but would rather live with you. I like sleeping alone, but would rather have you in my bed. I like having friends over, but would rather it just be the two of us.” — Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words
14. “You are the one. Took me a long time to realize that. When you left, you were still here. Like a damn ghost haunting my every step and thought. I never really moved on. Wasn’t going to. You had a piece of me.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout, Till Death
15. “I have loved you since before I knew I loved you. I have loved you since before I was supposed to love you. And I will continue to love you ever single day for the rest of eternity.” — Aly Martinez, From the Embers
16. “Loving someone means risking your heart being broken. But those moments you are together triumph over any hardship.” — Astrid Scholte, Four Dead Queens
17. “I wish I could live a thousand lives so I could fall in love with you a thousand times.” — A Sky Sabaa Tahir, Beyond The Storm
18. “Love is not always smooth and easy. Love can be piercing. Love means exposing yourself—all of yourself, every tender part—to being hurt. Because true love is not only the flower, true love is also the thorns.” — Mia Sheridan, Grayson’s Vow
19. “People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won’t happen for me. I won’t survive you. You’re everything I’ve ever wanted or needed, everything I’ve ever dreamed of. I live and breathe you. For you.” — Sylvia Day, Reflected In You
20. “I didn’t know enough to dream you, but somehow you came true anyway. How did that happen? Who read my mind and knew exactly what I wanted, even when I didn’t?” — Mia Sheridan, Archer’s Voice
21. “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” — When Harry Met Sally
22. “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard, and we’re gonna have to work at this every day. But I wanna do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever. You and me. Every day.” — The Notebook
23. “Love isn’t patient, and kind, and humble. Love is messy, and horrible, and selfish, and bold. It’s not about finding your perfect half. It’s the trying, and reaching, and failing.” — The Half of It
24. “Love isn’t easy; that’s why they call it love.” — The Big Sick
25. “Because it was us. We were magic.” — Someone Great
26. “You complete me.” — Jerry Maguire
27. “I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.” — Dirty Dancing
28. “Why me?” “Because you saw me when I was invisible.” — The Princess Diaries
29. “To me, you are perfect.” — Love Actually
30. “People do fall in love. People do belong to each other, because that’s the only chance that anyone’s got for true happiness.” — Breakfast at Tiffany’s
31. “What I’m trying to say, very inarticulately, is that, um, in fact, perhaps despite appearances, I like you, very much. Just as you are.” — Bridget Jones’s Diary
32. “I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.” — Pocahontas
33. “I knew that when I kissed this girl I would be forever wed to her. So I stopped. I stopped and I waited. I waited for a moment longer. Then I just let myself go.” — The Great Gatsby
34. “I’ve come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours.” — Sense and Sensibility
35. “My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.” — The Fault in Our Stars
36. “I don’t want to sound foolish, but remember love is what brought you here. And if you’ve trusted love this far, don’t panic now. Trust it all the way.” — If Beale Street Could Talk
37. “I wish I knew how to quit you.” — Brokeback Mountain
38. “I love you through the perfect moments, and there are so many, but I will always love you through the imperfect ones too.” — Becka Mack, Consider Me
39. “For my entire life, my heart has only beat for one person. That’s you. Even without knowing if you’d ever be mine, I knew I was yours.” — Kat Singleton, Rewrite Our Story
40. “I want only you. Whatever of you I can have. I’ll take one night. One hour. One minute. Whatever you want to give me. I’ll have it.” — Six Carissa Broadbent, Scorched Roses
41. “I want to be the person you lean on. You and I, we’re the same. We have no one but each other. You’ll lean on me and I’ll do the same. We’ll learn how. We’re in this together.” — Ella Maise, Marriage For One
42. “I could spend the rest of forever with you and it still wouldn’t be enough time to finish everything I have planned for us.” — Lauren Asher, Terms & Conditions
43. “I don’t feel alone with you. I feel like I have a family and a home again. You’re my home. All of the dark shadows seem to disappear when we’re together.” — R.K. Lilley, Mile High
44. “I will be here, every day. I’ll be right by your side reminding you that you matter, that you are needed, that there is a reason to have hope and a reason to live. I’ll be here reminding you that for me? You are that reason.” — Kandi Steiner, Quarterback Sneak
45. “I loved you even when I hated you. And that’s how I knew I didn’t hate you at all.” — Charleigh Rose, Bad Habit
46. “You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, the blood in my veins. I want you to know that even in death I’ll always remember you. I’ll always love you.” — J. A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
47. “It’s easy to love someone when times are good. Real love is about holding on to one another when times aren’t.” — Devney Perry, Timid
48. “You’ve opened my eyes to the world and shown me what I was doing before wasn’t living. I’ve never felt more alive than when I’m with you. You’re not my second choice or my first choice. You’re my only choice.”
49. “Every time I close my eyes, I see you. I’ve always seen you. Even if you tell me you don’t feel the same. Even if I walk away knowing there’s not a chance in hell of us ever being something, I’ll wait for you.”
50. “Maybe the two of us were like the sun and moon, always passing each other, but never actually meant to be together.” — Eva Winners, Alexei
If you think that’s all the knee bending deep relationship quotes we’ve got in store for you and the LOYL, wait till you read the rest.
51. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Bronte
52. “Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.” — Sarah Bernhardt
53. “You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.” — Nicholas Sparks
54. “A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.” ― Shannon Alder
55. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.” — Lao Tzu
56. “Oh, how a quiet love can drown out every fear.” — Jessica Katoff
57. “It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they’re destined to be.” — Michelle Yeoh
58. “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
59. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allan Poe
60. “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” — Willa Cather
61. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” ― Thomas Merton
62. “Love has nothing to do with what you are expected to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.” — Katharine Hepburn
63. “Love is the answer.” – John Lennon
64. “Love understands love; it needs no talk.” — Frances Havergal
65. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
66. “I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home.” — Dorothy L. Sayers
67. “People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.” ― Haruki Murakami
68. “Love alone can rekindle life.” — Henri Frederic Amiel
69. “My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.” — Boris Kodjoe
70. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” — Peter Ustinov
71. “Love, like rain, doesn’t choose the grass on which it falls.“
72. “No physician can cure the disease of love.“ — Unknown
74. “Love never gets lost, it’s only kept.”
75. “There is one who loves you after seeing you, and there is one who loves you unseen.”
76. “The greatest pain is not to be loved, but to love and not be reciprocated.” — Marcus Aurelius
77. “Love is a battlefield, and sometimes you lose.” — Unknown
78. “Love is the greatest gift of all.” — Unknown
79. “All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.” — Ed Sheeran
80. “You’re mine. I’m yours. We don’t belong with anyone else. I don’t stand in front of you, or run after you. I walk alongside you.”
Picture this: your partner pulls you closer and whispers these words into your ears. Sweet, right? Anyway, we’ve got more emotional relationship quotes guaranteed to make your love stand the test of time.
81. “If something happens, know that I will find you in every lifetime. You are mine, and not even death can keep you from me.” Emily McIntire, Scarred
82. “I’ll choose you. No matter how hard it is. No matter what people say. Every time, I’ll choose you. It’s up to you to choose me back.” — Tess Sharpe, Far From You
83. “I’ve been swallowed up in sadness and pain and every different kind of self-hatred that exists. But you’ve been my bright spot. You’ve pulled me through. The only good thing this broken heart of mine can feel is love for you.” — Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle
84. “You have me. Until every last star in the galaxy dies. You have me.” — Amie Kaufman, These Broken Stars
85. “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
86. “You are my blue crayon, the one I never have enough of, the one I use to color my sky.” — A.R. Asher
87. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
88. “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” — Valerie Lombardo
89. “True love is not a hide-and-seek game; in true love, both lovers seek each other.” — Michael Bassey Johnson
90. “Happily ever after is not a fairy tale—it’s a choice.” — Fawn Weaver
91. “Wherever you are, no matter if it’s right next to me or a thousand miles away, I’m tied to you with a thread that can’t break. We’re connected by something stronger than time or place.” Krista & Becca Ritchie, Wherever You Are
92. “My eyes have really only been opened since you came into my world. You gave me everything. You made me really want to see what was around me, for the first time in my life. You made me want you. You made me want… a life.” — Raine Miller , Eyes Wide Open
93. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo
94. “Whether it’s a lifetime or a moment, not a second of what’s between us could ever be a mistake. Love is moment to moment. It’s not dependent on how much longer you’re together, and I fucking love you. It’s going to hurt like hell, but it’ll have been worth it.” Jessa Wilder, Rule Number Five
95. “You have my heart. I don’t know if you deserve it or not. I can’t tell if you’re a hero or a villain, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Either way, my heart is yours.” — Marissa Meyer , Heartless
96. “Your dark doesn’t scare me. It only makes me want to hold your hand and be your light until you can find your own again. That’s what people do when they’re in love.” — Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward, Dirty Letters
97. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.” — Pablo Neruda
98. “I love you so much it’s like a constant flow spilling into my soul. You taught me how to live again, and in a world without you, I would merely be surviving.”
99. “Your heart was always safe with me. It always will be. There is nothing I will protect more fiercely or with more devotion. Trust in that, in what you feel from me. In me.”
100. “Be mine. Be mine right now. Be mine forever. I’ll give you anything you want. All I want in return is you.” — Julia Quinn, An Offer From A Gentleman
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