101 “I Love You” Quotes To Express How You Feel

Written by , BE, PGDBM, Certified Professional Life Coach Harini Natarajan BE, PGDBM, Certified Professional Life Coach Experience: 17 years
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George Sand said it right. “There is only one happiness in life. To love and be loved.”

But you know what’s very important to keep the love alive? Express it. Say it out loud. Sometimes, a simple ‘I love you so much’ can be enough. Sometimes, you need more!

Looking for love quotes to tell them how special they are to you? We’ve got you covered! Here’s a round-up of 101 best “I love you” quotes.

101 Quotes To Say “I Love You” Without Actually Saying It

  1. “The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” – George Moore
  1. “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.” – Rabindranath Tagore
  1. “A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the “i” in loving; ‘Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.” – Edmond Rostand
  1. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte
  1. “The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.” – Alexandra Penney
  1. “Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” – John Lennon
  1. “Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.” – Alexis Delp
  1. “Falling in love consists merely of uncorking the imagination and bottling the common–sense.” – Helen Rowland
  1. “When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” – Leo Tolstoy
  1. “When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.” – Elizabeth Cameron

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  1. “True love is spelled G–I–V–E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.” – Josh McDowell
  1. “Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” – Vincent Van Gogh
  1. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint–Exupery
  1. “Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it. What you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love.” – Whitney Otto
  1. “The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.” – Anonymous
  1. “All’s fair in love and war.” – Francis Edwards
  1. “Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.” – Crystal Middlemas
  1. “If I had one more night to live, I would want to spend it with you.” – Pearl Harbour
  1. “When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.” – Dr. John Gray
  1. “You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.” – David Levesque

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101 I Love You Quotes To Express How You Feel
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  1. “Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.” – Stephen Packer
  1. “We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.” – Brian Andres
  1. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Francois Marie Arouet
  1. “Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” – Anonymous
  1. “The first duty of love — is to listen.” – Paul Tillich
  1. “The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re still alive.” – A. Battista
  1. “Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter’s frost and chill, summer’s warmth is in them still.” – Leo Buscaglia
  1. “When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” – Elizabeth Bowen
  1. “I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left its dwelling place … and can return no more.” – John Clare
  1. “All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.” – Ed Sheeran

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  1. “I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald ​​
  1. “Love recognizes no barriers.” – Maya Angelou​
  1. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
  1. “We are most alive when we’re in love.” – John Updike
  1. “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” – Blaise Pascal
  1. “Love is friendship that has caught fire.” – Ann Sanders
  1. “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
  1. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” – Princess Diana
  1. “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
  1. “A simple “I love you” means more than money.” – Frank Sinatra
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  1. “Everything I do, I do it for you.” – Bryan Adams
  1. “… it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
  1. “It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.” – Bertrand Russell
  1. “Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.” – Daniel Monroe Tuttle
  1. “You’ll never really know when he really loves you till he looks you in the eyes, grabs your hand, and says it.” – Meg Rogers
  1. “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – William Shakespeare
  1. “Love is not blind – It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.” – Will Moss
  1. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov
  1. “Once in a while, in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” – Anonymous
  1. “Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone. It’s not warm when she’s away. Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, and she’s always gone too long, anytime she goes away.” – Bill Withers

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  1. “You Deserve Love, And You’ll Get It.” – Amy Poehler
  1. “I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
  1. “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.” – Winnie The Pooh
  1. “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
  1. “There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love.” – Bob Dylan
  1. “Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  1. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna
  1. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because the reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
  1. “I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” – Rita Rudner
  1. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
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  1. “You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” – Rhett Butler, Gone With the Wind
  1. “I like you very much. Just as you are.” – Bridget Jones’s Diary
  1. “Personally, I love a great love story.” – Meghan Markle
  1. “Love is the flower; you’ve got to let it grow.” – John Lennon
  1. “Maybe I don’t know that much but I know this much is true, I was blessed because I was loved by you.” – Celine Dion
  1. “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
  1. “Love loves to love love.” – James Joyce
  1. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
  1. “Love is an endless act of forgiveness.” – Beyonce
  1. “The smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa
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  1. “Some love stories aren’t epic novels. Some are short stories, but that doesn’t make them any less filled with love.” – Sex & The City
  1. “All you need is love.” – The Beatles
  1. “Love was made for me and you.” – Nat King Cole
  1. “I’d never lived before your love”.– Kelly Clarkson
  1. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
  1. “You had me at Hello!” – Jerry Maguire
  1. “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
  1. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de la Fontaine
  1. “Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” – Mandy Hale
  1. “True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.” – John Green

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  1. “True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!” – Dada Vaswani
  1. “True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.” – Sadhu Vaswani
  1. “True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.” – Kiera Cass
  1. “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” – Erich Segal
  1. “True love lasts forever.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
  1. “True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.” – Holliday Grainger
  1. “True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” – Honore de Balzac
  1. “True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.” – Billy Graham
  1. “True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.” – Ricardo Montalban
  1. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare

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  1. “Life is a game and true love is a trophy.” – Rufus Wainwright
  1. “True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.” – Torquato Tasso
  1. “I love true love, and I’m a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want.” – Ali Larter
  1. “True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.” – Julia Roberts
  1. “True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.” – Antoine de Saint–Exupery
  1. “True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.” – Justin Timberlake
  1. “Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.” – Tori Spelling
  1. “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
  1. “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
  1. “You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.” – Courtney Thorne–Smith
  1. “Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.” – Tom Freston

Which True Love Quotes is your favorite from this compilation of love quotes for couples? Is there any popular one we missed out? Let us know in the comments below!

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As Head Of Content Operations, Harini sets the tone and editorial direction for StyleCraze to deliver engaging, interesting, and authentic content revolving around women's health, wellness, and beauty. She is a Certified Professional Life Coach from Transformation Academy, a Certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner from The Priority Academy, and has over 17 years of experience in content writing and editing for online media.

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