Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and if you’re anything like me, you might have trouble finding just the right words to tell the people you love how you feel. Fortunately, love has been a pretty hot topic in literature for the past couple millennia! You can count on these beautiful quotes to help you express yourself:
1. When they make your dreams come true….
”You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
—Dr. Seuss
2. When you’ve overcome obstacles just to be together…
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
—Paulo Coehlo
3. When they’ve been your person for a long time…
“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”
—Mitch Albom
4. When love is all you need…
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
—Sophocles
5. When they are always on your mind…
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk through my garden forever.”
—Alfred Tennyson
6. When they are your muse…
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
—Rumi
7. When they mean the world to you…
“If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
—Emily Brontë
8. When your love can’t be contained…
“My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
—Jane Austen
9. When you love every inch of them…
“But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.”
—Pablo Neruda
10. When they are always on your mind…
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”
—Virginia Wolf
11. When you speak different love languages…
“When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.”
—John Knowles
12. When your love knows no bounds…
“Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
—William Goldman
13. When you’ve found your other half…
“And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy.”
—Plato
14. When your love trumps everything…
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
—Charles Dickens