151 Heart-Touching Valentine's Day Quotes For A Loving 2026
Looking for great Valentine’s Day quotes to help you say exactly what’s in your heart this V-day? Sometimes, explaining your feelings is easier said than done, and even the most chatty among us can have a hard time expressing them. But this year, you’ll no longer be tongue-tied, as we’ve put together some of the most fantastic and heartfelt Valentine's Day quotes to help you say it all, even when words fail. From sweet Valentine's Day quotes for husbands and wives to funny Valentine’s Day quotes that’ll have you in stitches, there’s something here for every kind of love.
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- Short Valentine's Day Quotes
- Inspirational Valentine's Day Quotes
- Valentine's Day Quotes For Husbands & Men
- Valentine's Day Quotes For Wives & Women
- Famous Valentine's Day Quotes
- Funny Valentine's Day Quotes
- Heart-touching Valentine’s Day Quotes
- Take A Loved-Up Class
Short Valentine's Day Quotes
If you find yourself asking, "What is a good Valentine's message?" every time February rolls around, then you’ll love these simple, short and sweet Valentine's messages. If you're artsy, they’re brief enough to strategically place on your Valentine’s Day crafts, such as homemade cards, gift tags, decorative banners and even ceramics or t-shirts.
1. "Love is the whole thing. We are only the pieces." — Rumi
2. "Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you." — Walter Winchell
3. "There is no remedy for love but to love more." — Henry David Thoreau
4. "Love is the beauty of the soul." — Saint Augustine
5. "Love is the greatest refreshment in life." — Pablo Picasso
6. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." — Plato
7. "To me, you are perfect." — 'Love Actually'
8. "True love stories never have endings." — Richard Bach
9. "Where there is love there is life." — Mahatma Gandhi
10. "There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." — Vincent van Gogh
11. "Everything is clearer when you're in love." — John Lennon
12. "To love at all is to be vulnerable." — C.S. Lewis
13. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." — David Viscott
14. "Love is never wrong." — Melissa Etheridge
15. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." — Aristotle
16. "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn
17. "The heart has its reason of which reason knows nothing." — Blaise Pascal
18. "There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart." — Jane Austen
19. "We are most alive when we're in love." — John Updike
Inspirational Valentine's Day Quotes
Get your notebook out and jot these inspirational Valentine's Day quotes down so you have something to reference when planning your romantic Valentine's Day ideas or just need the perfect words to scribble in a card. You can share them with your partner, your bestie or anyone in your life who deserves to hear how much they mean to you.
20. "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." — Plato
21. "To love another person is to see the face of God." — "Les Misérables"
22. "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." — Oscar Wilde
23. "They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything." — Bil Keane
24. "Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever." — Audre Lorde
25. "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything." — Katharine Hepburn
26. "And if the stars should ever die, we’ll make our own light, you and I." — John Mark Green
27. "Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence." — Vincent van Gogh
28. "Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey." —Lord Byron
29. "A heart that loves is always young." —Greek proverb
30. "Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do." —David Wilkerson
31. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." — Lao Tzu
32. "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." — Zelda Fitzgerald
33. "The giving of love is an education in itself." —Eleanor Roosevelt
34. "To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything." — T. Tolis
35. "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself." — Honoré de Balzac
36. "Your flaws are perfect for the heart that's meant to love you." — Trent Shelton
37. "Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." — Loretta Young
38. "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." — Voltaire
39. "Even in my dreams I never imagined that I should find so much love on earth." — Prince Albert
40. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." — Maya Angelou
41. "When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." — Paulo Coelho
42. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." — Lucille Ball
43. "You call it madness, but I call it love." — Don Byas
44. "To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic." — Alphonse de Lamartine
Valentine's Day Quotes For Husbands & Men
A recent Reddit post asked guys if they ever get compliments, and the general consensus was that they rarely receive compliments and attention from women. Apparently, men can go years or even decades without receiving compliments or feeling acknowledged, and that's just not right. The truth is, men like being called handsome, being told they're good at something or just being complimented; just as women do. So, to make the guy in your life feel special, we’ve compiled a list of sweet and thoughtful Valentine's Day quotes for husbands that’ll make him feel loved and appreciated.
45. "I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day." — Nicholas Sparks
46. "Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited." — Gloria Steinem
47. "Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses." — Ann Landers
48. "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
49. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
50. "The single most extraordinary thing I've ever done with my life is fall in love with you." — Beth Pearson, "This Is Us"
51. "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
52. "For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home." — Stephanie Perkins
53. "You are my sun, my moon and all my stars." —E. E. CummingsÂ
54. "I am yours, don’t give myself back to me." —Rumi
55. "Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own." — Charlotte Brontë
56. "I fell in love with you because of a million tiny things you never knew you were doing." — Unknown
57. "My heart is and always will be yours." — "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen
58. "My dream wouldn’t be complete without you in it." — The Princess and the Frog
59. "You are my heart, my life, my entire existence." — "The Iron Queen" by Julie Kagawa
60. "Nobody in the world makes me laugh the way you do. You’re my best friend. I just wanna be with you." — "Made of Honor"
Valentine's Day Quotes For Wives & Women
Try these romantic Valentine's Day quotes for wives to show your lady just how much you love and appreciate her this year. You can add them to that love letter she's been dropping hints about or a handwritten note to accompany your gift.
61. "I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
62. "If I know what love is, it is because of you." — Hermann Hesse
63. "I hope you don't mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you're in the world." — "Your Song" — Bernie Taupin and Elton John
64. "I have found the one whom my soul loves." — Song of Solomon
65. "When you're lucky enough to meet your one person, then life takes a turn for the best. It can't get better than that." — John Krasinski
66. "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you ... I could walk through my garden forever." — Alfred Tennyson
67. "If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love." — Miles Davis
68. "My heart to you is given, oh do give yours to me; We’ll lock them up together, and throw away the key." — Frederick Saunders
69. "I want you for always … days, years, eternities." — Franz Schubert
70. "When you put your arms around me, you let me know there's nothing in this world I can't do." — Keith Urban
71. "When you love someone, you love the whole person as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be." — Leo Tolstoy
72. "A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." — Max Muller
73. "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." — Arthur Conan Doyle
74. "Happiness is being married to your best friend." —Unknown
75. "Take me to your heart, for it's there that I belong." — Elvis Presley
Famous Valentine's Day Quotes
The great thing about these famous Valentine’s Day quotes is that they remove the need to come up with something poetic and original on your own. Famous poets, writers, comedians and celebrities have already done the heavy lifting with their memorable words about love. All you have to do is pick out a thoughtful Valentine’s Day gift to go with them and you’re all set.
76. "'Tis better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all." — Ernest Hemingway
77. "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." — William Shakespeare
78. "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." — J.R.R. Tolkien
79. "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
80. "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." — Dr. Seuss
81. "The heart has its reasons which reason knows not." — Blaise Pascal
82. "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." — Victor Hugo
83. "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." — Charles M. Schulz
84. "Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin P. Jones
85. "In our life there is a single color... which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." — Marc Chagall
86. "Who, being loved, is poor?" —Oscar Wilde
87. "Love is the poetry of the senses." — Honoré de Balzac
88. "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
89. "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." — George Sand
Funny Valentine's Day Quotes
Why so serious? Valentine's Day doesn't have to be all swooning and mushy declarations. These funny and heart-touching Valentine's Day quotes will have your special someone laughing out loud (and maybe falling for you all over again). Couples who laugh together stay together.
90. "The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine's Day." — Tom Robbins
91. "Oh, here's an idea: Let's make pictures of our internal organs and give them to other people we love on Valentine's Day. That's not weird at all." — Jimmy Fallon
92. "Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses." — Thomas Dewar
93. "Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." — Jim Carrey
94. "Sometimes I wonder how you put up with me. Then I remember, oh I put up with you. So we’re even." — Mand Lynne
95. "If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?" — Lily Tomlin
96. "Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat." — Ben Hecht
97. "Every day I fall in love with you more and more. Except yesterday… yesterday you were pretty annoying." — Earl E. Bird
98. "I love you with all my butt. I would say heart, but my butt is bigger." — Emma Nate
99. "You know how people say, 'You can’t live without love'? Well, oxygen is even more important." — David Sedaris
100. "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop." — H. L. Mencken
101. "Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings and lawyers." — Richard Pryor
102. "The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works 24/7, 365 from birth until you fall in love." — Sophie Monroe
103. "Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener." — Pauline Thomason
104. "There are only three things women need in life: food, water and compliments." — Chris Rock
105. "Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position." — Christopher Marlowe
106. "The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone." — Dolly Parton
107. "My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me." — Garry Shandling
108. "Love is being stupid together." — Paul Valery
109. "Romantic love is a mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one." — Fran Lebowitz
110. "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry." — Oscar Wilde
111. "A man’s main job is to protect his woman from her desire to ‘get bangs’ every other month." — Dax Shepard
112. "Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch." — Cathy Carlyle
113. "All my wife wanted for Valentine’s Day was a little card — American Express." — Milton Berle
114. "Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age — as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight." — Phyllis Diller
115. "You can't put a price tag on love. But if you could, I'd wait for it to go on sale." — Jarod Kintz
116. "Love is a sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock." — Jewish proverb
117. "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." — Pearl Bailey
118. "It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes." — Lucille Ball
119. "Marriage is a wonderful invention. Then again, so is a bicycle kit." — Billy Connolly
120. "Love is a two-way street constantly under construction." — Carroll Bryant
121. "I was married by a judge. I should've asked for a jury." — Groucho Marx
122. "A guy knows he's in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days." — Tim Allen
123. "You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps." — Roseanne Barr
124. "Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there." — George Burns
125. "I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed, too — for being married so many times." — Elizabeth Taylor
126. "As a man in a relationship, you have two choices: You can be right, or you can be happy." — Ralphie May
127. "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
128. "By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." — Socrates
129. "I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?" — Jean Illsey Clarke
130. "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." — Joan Crawford
Heart-touching Valentine’s Day Quotes
Still having a hard time coming up with sweet words to say to your loved one this Valentine’s Day? Say it with flowers or with a card filled with these heart-touching Valentine's Day quotes. After all, what is a good Valentine's message but your love put into words?
131. "This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls." — Aberjhani
132. "There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love." — Reese Witherspoon
133. "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not." — Jodi Picoult
134. "Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." — Robert Browning
135. "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"
136. "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
137. "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze." — Elinor Glyn
138. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." — Helen Keller
139. "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another." — Thomas Merton
140. "A loving heart is the truest wisdom." — Charles Dickens
141. "In a world full of temporary things you are a perpetual feeling." — Sanober Khan
142. "I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours." — The Notebook
143. "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love." — Sophocles
144. "The real lover is a man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space." — Marilyn Monroe
145. "You are the person I never knew how to write, and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell." — Tyler Knott Gregson
146. "You are what I never knew I always wanted." — "Fools Rush in"
147. "To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give." — Madonna
148. "My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness." — André Breton
149. "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." — Zora Neale Hurston
150. "It's like, in that moment, the whole universe existed just to bring us together." — "Serendipity"
151. "I will love you my whole life. You and no other." — "Braveheart"
Take A Loved-Up Class
For Valentine's day date ideas that go beyond the typical dinner, consider bonding over a creative activity where you both can learn something new together. For instance, you can cook together in a hands-on culinary class, create fragrant keepsakes in an immersive candle-making lesson or make some pottery in a fun pottery class. Paint and sip classes are another unique and fun date activity for young couples looking to celebrate their love. And if you’d like to add another unexpected gift idea to your V-day repertoire, book them a nail appointment where they can get their nails done in cute Valentine’s Day designs.Â
So, what is the best quote for Valentine's Day? The one most likely to make your Valentine smile, of course. As these Valentine's Day quotes prove, sometimes the best way to say "I love you" is by borrowing words from those who've said it best. We've shared funny Valentine's Day quotes to help you reach their heart through their funny bone, short Valentine's Day quotes for those who prefer sweet and simple sentiments and if you're still wondering "What is a good heart touching quote?" to share with your partner, you can't go wrong with any of the famous Valentine's Day quotes we shared. And now that you have the words, be sure to put them on something like a mug or a painting for a personalized keepsake they'll treasure.
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