Love can be an overwhelming feeling that is hard to express to your special someone. In this post, I want to share 51 of my favorite short romantic quotes and sayings to help you convey your deep emotions and let your loved one know how you truly feel. Whether you choose to share these quotes in person, via text, or in another way, I hope you find them helpful.
Short Romantic Quotes for Him
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
– Herman Hesse
“Love comes from the most unexpected places.”
– Barbra Streisand
“He was my north, my south, my east and west, my working week and my Sunday rest.”
– W.H. Auden
“Over everything, I choose you.”
– Marissa Meyer
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
– Sophocles
“Our love cannot be measured, it just is.”
– John Paul Stevens
“Whenever I’m alone with you, You make me feel like I am home again.”
– The Cure (from Lovesong)
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
– James Thurber
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
– Honore de Balzac
“With you kissing feels like healing.”
– Lisa McMann
“Music to my heart, that’s what you are.”
– Selena Gomez
“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.”
– Henry Wadsworth
“Love without expectation, love without limits.”
– Unknown
“When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you and I’m home.”
– Dory (from the movie Finding Nemo)
“Who would have known that our innocent friendship would turn into a blossoming love?”
– Unknown
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”
– Leo Tolstoy
Short Romantic Love Quotes for Her
“In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.”
– Walter Winchell
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
– George Sand
“Sometimes the least expected love comes at the right moment, at the time when you are ready.”
– Unknown
“Art, like love, moves the heart in unexpected directions.”
– Marty Rubin
“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.”
– Paul McCartney
“Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.”
– Unknown
“I never want to stop making memories with you.”
– Pierre Jeanty
“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.”
– Dr. Seuss
“I’ve got all I want when it comes to loving you. You’re my only reason, you’re my only truth.”
– Leann Rimes
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
– Andre Breton
“I have seen the best and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
– Sarah Kay
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
– Charles Dickens
“I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
– Haruki Murakami
“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
Short and Deep Romantic Quotes for Couples
“Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Brontë
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
– Joseph Campbell
“Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Carl Sagan
“You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
– E.E. Cummings
“Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
– Carroll Bryant
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
– Barbara De Angelis
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
– Charles Schulz
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s OK with them.”
– Alain de Botton
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
– David Wilkerson
“I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they bought you to me.”
– Pablo Neruda
“How do you spell love? You don’t spell it. You feel it.”
– A. A. Milne
“Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning
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