Valentine's Day quotes

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

– Blaise Pascal

We are most alive when we’re in love.

– John Updike

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.

– Charles M. Schulz

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

– Judy Garland

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

– Rumi

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

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

– Christian Nestell Bovee

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

– Frank Morgan

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

– Bil Keane

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

– Michel de Montaigne

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

– Rupert Brooke

I’m like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.

– Susie Bright

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

– Willa Cather

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 Edward Moore

I do not want horses or diamonds – I am happy in possessing you.

– Clara Schumann

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

– Maya Angelou

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

– Albert Camus

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

– Christina Rossetti

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

– Lord Byron

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

– John Keats

I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

– W. H. Auden

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

– Emma Goldman

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

– Robert Herrick

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.

– Thomas Merton

Valentine’s Day is one of those tricky celebrations where you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. If you love it, you’re buying into a holiday created to sell greeting cards, bad bouquets, and shoddy love-themed stuffed animals. And if you’re opposed to it, you’re considered lonely and single and have clearly never had a valentine.

– Dan Levy

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

– Margaret Atwood

Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.

– Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love Valentine’s Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is ‘When Harry Met Sally.’

– Ginnifer Goodwin

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

– Thomas Hood

I love love. Every day of my life is Valentine’s Day. When you’re a pathological narcissist, you have to fall in love with yourself every day.

– Katya Zamolodchikova

I’d kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

– Cameron Diaz

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

– Rumi

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

– Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

It’s funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren’t allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

– Hannah Simone

There’s a long life ahead of you and it’s going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

– Yoko Ono

So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.

– Robert Browning

In love there are two things – bodies and words.

– Joyce Carol Oates

All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine’s Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn’t – or hasn’t yet – materialized.

– Tracy McMillan

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

– e. e. cummings

I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.

– Drew Barrymore

Today is Valentine’s Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

– Jay Leno

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

– Elizabeth Bowen

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

– Audre Lorde

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

– Thomas Moore

I think diamonds represent luxury, indulgence, and class. So any time you can incorporate a gift that is synonymous with all those attributes, you know the other person will love it. I would challenge someone to find something that better represents Valentine’s Day more than diamonds!

– Chris Evans

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

– William Shakespeare

Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

– John Keats

Mother’s Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine’s Day is a torment if you don’t got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine’s Day even if we’re relatively lucky in love.

– Dan Savage

Everything’s coming up roses – for me.

– Ethel Merman

When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine’s Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.

– Evangeline Lilly