156 Short Love Quotes For Him & Her

Are you looking for a way to express your feelings to someone you love? Don’t worry! We’ve got you covered. What could be better than impressing them with some heart-warming and romantic quotes?

Sometimes it may be difficult to articulate how much your partner means to you, but these inspirational and heartfelt quotes are the perfect words to win them over.  

These love quotes can be used in cards to convey how you feel in words and to add a special sentiment to them. They can cover most of your occasions, whether it’s Valentine’s Day, a wedding, or a marriage anniversary.

So here is a list of our favorite love quotes:     

Best Short Love Quotes

1.) “I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim

2.) “Time and time again I have to pinch myself when I see you next to me. You are my dream come true.” –Unknown

3.) “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” – Haruki Murakami

4.) “Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.” – Elvis Presley

5.) “Thank you for stealing my eyes from the crowd and stealing my heart from me.” – Unknown

6.) “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

7.) “The chances of meeting you on this planet are like finding a needle in haystack – a miracle happened.” –Unknown

8.) “You’re the closest to heaven, that I’ll ever be.” – Goo Goo Dolls

9.) “Life with you is tranquil yet full of surprises and I am in it for the long haul.” – Unknown

10.) “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

11.) “Kissing you is my favorite hobby. Holding you is my favorite pastime.” – Unknown


12.) “It’s always better when we’re together.” – Jack Johnson

13.) “To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” – Unknown

14.) “I love you and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

15.) “I love you for all that you are, all that you have been and all that you will be.” – Unknown

16.) “I wasn’t expecting you. I didn’t think that we would end up together. The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you. I’ve never been seen so completely, loved so passionately and protected so fiercely.” – This Is Us

17.) “You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love… I love… I love you.” – Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

18.) “Two are better than one.” – Ecclesiastes 4:9

19.) “I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.” – Zelda Fitzgerald

20.) “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

21.) “I have found the one whom my soul loves.” – Song of Solomon 3:4

22.) “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse

23.) “Sometimes all you need is a hug from the right person and all your stress will melt away.” – Unknown

24.) “I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” – Ben Folds

25.) “My soul and your soul are forever tangled.” – N.R. Hart

26.) “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

27.) “Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy.” – Unknown

28.) “You are, and always have been, my dream.” – Nicholas Sparks

29.) “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte

30.) “In a sea of people, my eyes will always be searching for you.” – Unknown

31.) “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

32.) “You’re that ‘Once in a lifetime dream come true.” – Unknown

33.) “What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” – Sinclair Lewis

34.) “Your smile conquers my heart.” – Unknown

35.) “I am happiest when I’m right next to you.” – Unknown

36.) “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” – Princess Diana

37.) “I’ve fallen in love many times… but always with you.” – Unknown

38.) “Come near now, and kiss me.” – Genesis 27:26

39.) “You are my forever confidant. My love for you will end never.” – Unknown

40.) “I need you like a heart needs a beat.” – One Republic

41.) “I would be nothing without your unconditional and undying love.” – Unknown

“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

42.) “Our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it.” – A Walk to Remember

43.)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.” – Pablo Neruda

44.) “You have me. Until every last star in the galaxy dies. You have me.” – Unknown

45.) “Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity.” – Truth Devour

46.) “I’d rather spend one moment holding you than a lifetime knowing I never could.” – Unknown

“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.” –Unknown

47.) “It’s always better when we’re together.” – Jack Johnson

48.)You’re nothing short of my everything. I wouldn’t have it any other way.” – Unknown

49.)My love for you is a journey; starting at forever and ending at never.” – Unknown

50.) “My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever– expanding.” – Christina White

51.) “No matter what has happened, no matter what you’ve done, no matter what you will do, I will always love you. I swear it.” – Unknown

52.) “When I see your face, there’s not a thing that I would change, ’cause you’re amazing – just the way you are.” – Bruno Mars

53.) “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green

54.) “Because of you, I can feel myself slowly, but surely, becoming the me I have always dreamed of being.” – Tyler Knott Gregson

55.) “Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.” – Unknown

56.) “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allen Poe

57.) “I need you like a heart needs a beat.” – Unknown

58.) “True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.” – Nicholas Sparks

59.) “I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.” – Song of Solomon 6:3

60.) “And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.” – Across the Universe

61.) “When I say I love you more, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most.” – Unknown

62.) “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” – Vladimir Nabokov

63.) “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” – Brendan Francis

64.) “In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.” – Margaret Anderson

65.) “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” – Oscar Wilde

66.) “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint– Exupery

67.) “You make me want to be a better man.” – Melvin Udall

68.) “You’re always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I’m thinking of you.” – Dierks Bentley

69.) “To love is to burn, to be on fire.” – Jane Austen

70.) “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito

71.) “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis

72.) “If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you.” – DeAnna Anderson

73.) “Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.” – Ovid

74.) “I love being one half of a romantic couple.” – Julianna Margulies

75.) “Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke

76.) “I love you. You… you complete me.” – Jerry Maguire

77.) “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

78.) “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

79.) “Love is being stupid together.” – Paul Valery

80.) “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” – Ben Hecht

81.) “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. “ – Elinor Glyn

82.) “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.” – André Breton

83.) “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo

84.) “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Kurt Vonnegut

85.) “When I look into your eyes, I know I have found the mirror of my soul.” – Joey W. Hill

86.) “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.” – Sophocles

87.) “A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.” – Edward VIII

88.) “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward

89.) “You know it’s true. Everything I do, I do it for you.” – Bryan Adams

90.) “Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away.” – Hitch

91.) “You call it madness, but I call it love.” – Don Byas

92.) “I think I’d miss you even if we never met.” – The Wedding Date

93.) “All you need is love.” – Paul McCartney

94.) “You’re nothing short of my everything.” – Ralph Block

95.) “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag

96.) “Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell

97.) “Love is not a volunteer thing.” – Samuel Richardson

98.) “I love you” begins by I, but it ends up by you.” – Charles de Leusse

99.) “Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” – Saint Ignatius

100.) “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green

101.) “Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.” – Nicholas Sparks

102.) “The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” – Jane Austen

103.) “Your hand touching mine. This is how galaxies collide.” – Sanober Khan

104.) “You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.” – Taylor Swift

105.) “For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.” – Again the Magic

106.) “I’ve been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn’t anyone else in my life, and the reason … is you.” – Julie James

107.) “A true love story never ends.” – Unknown

108.) “I don’t wanna close my eyes, I don’t wanna fall asleep, cuz I’d miss you babe and I don’t wanna miss a thing.” – Aerosmith

109.) “I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – The Alchemist

110.) “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.” – The History Of Love

111.) “Love is a force more formidable than any other.” – Barbara de Angelis

112.) “It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.” – Bertrand Russell

113.) “You make me want to be a better man.” – As Good As It Gets

114.) “I love you –  I am at rest with you –  I have come home.” – Dorothy L. Sayers

115.) “Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you.” – Meet Joe Black

116.) “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

117.) “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach

118.) “The love we give away is the only love we keep.” – Elbert Hubbard

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

120.) “Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.” – Houssaye

121.) “The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun.” – Charles de Leusse

122.) “That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.” – Joan Baez

123.) “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau

124.) “Trust your intuition and be guided by love.” – Charles Eisenstein

125.) “I promise to love you forever, every single day of forever.” – Twilight

126.) “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Oscar Wilde

127.) “Every time I see you, I fall in love all over again.” – Unknown

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

129.) “You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning.” – Unknown

130.) “Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.” – Marge Piercy

131.) “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” – Leo Christopher

132.) “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis

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

134.) “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 Stael

135.) “Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.” – Truman Capote

136.) “Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.” – George Jean Nathan

137.) “Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.” – Sarah Bernhardt

138.) “Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.” – Moliere

139.) “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” – Jane Austen

140.) “You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” – Gone with the Wind

141.) “My heart is and always will be yours.” – Jane Austen

143.) “Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” – The Princess Bride

144.) “Cause all of me loves all of you. Love your curves and all your edges. All your perfect imperfections. Give your all to me. I’ll give my all to you. You’re my end and my beginning.” – John Legend

145.) “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott

146.) “When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.” –  William Makepeace Thackeray

147.) “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky

148.) “There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.” – Leo Christopher

149.) “Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” – St. Augustine

150.) “Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” – Rosemonde Gerard

151.) “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens

152.) “It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together… and I knew it.” – Sleepless In Seattle

153.) “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks

154.) “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

155.) “The day my life changed forever… The day I first saw you.” – The Longest Ride

156.) “I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.” – William Blake

Summary

We hope that you were amused by our catalog containing some of the most elegant, touching quotes out there and were able to find something to your liking. When browsing through the list, try to choose a quote that best explains how you feel and is well suited for the event. 

Adding these quotes to your cards will help you make the perfect gift card. A small gesture like this goes a long way and also reflects your thoughtfulness.

If you know someone who can incorporate these quotes on any of their upcoming occasions, don’t forget to share our compilation with them.

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Asad Elahi

Asad Elahi is a personal finance expert and author with over 5 years of experience in the industry. He has written extensively on topics such as saving, investing, and building wealth, focusing on helping individuals achieve financial independence. His work has been featured in major publications such as Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, and he is a regular contributor to financial websites and blogs.