45 Quotes for a Happy Valentines Day

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Looking for some romance? These Valentine’s Day quotes are the place to start feeling the love and enjoying the day.

So if you’re looking to inject some humor and perspective into your love life this February, we’ve composed some hilarious and profound sayings about Valentine’s Day.

Valentine’s Day Quotes

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

Jess C. Scott

I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you.

Lisa Kleypas
Dr Seuss Quote “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams”
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Ernest Hemingway

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.

Shmuley Boteach

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth… This is the real message of love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Richelle Mead
Elizabeth Gilbert Quote “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous”
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

Lauren Oliver

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.

Kahlil Gibran
Pedro Calderon Quote “When love is not madness it is not love”
“When love is not madness it is not love.” – Pedro Calderon

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other…Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.

Dave Matthews Band

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.

Oprah Winfrey

For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

Stephanie Perkins
Deepak Chopra Quote “When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself”
“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.” – Deepak Chopra

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

Pandora Poikilos

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Jane Austen

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

Gillian Anderson

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens
Cornel West Quote “We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence”
“We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” – Cornel West

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

Criss Jami

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.

Brene Brown

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

Tim McGraw
Theodor Reik Quote “In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy”
“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.” – Theodor Reik

Romantic Valentine Quotes

They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other every day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.

Nicholas Sparks

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde

Just because I’m not forever by your side doesn’t mean that’s not precisely where I want to be.

Stephanie Laurens

My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all…All my heart has ever wanted is you.

Stephanie Laurens
Rainbow Rowell Quote “Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body”
“Every woman wants a man who’ll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.” – Rainbow Rowell

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Sue Monk Kidd

Oh no. Don’t smile. You’ll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.

Tessa Dare

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

L. Frank Baum

When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

Randy Pausch
Elinor Glyn Quote “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”
“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” – Elinor Glyn

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

Julie de Lespinasse

My soul will find yours.

Jude Deveraux

Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.

Nicholas Sparks
Oscar Wilde Quote “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance”
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” – Oscar Wilde

Funny Valentine Quotes

You’re never alone on Valentine’s Day if you’re near a lake and have bread.

Mike Primavera

Remember, your Valentine’s card shows you care enough to send the very best, even though you’re too lazy to put it in your own words.

Melanie White

Love is the name of an irrepressible moment formed inside one complete pulsation of a heart.

Munia Khan
Fay Morgan Valentine's Day Quote “The thing about Valentine's day is that people discover who are single and who to feel jealous of”
“The thing about Valentine’s day is that people discover who are single and who to feel jealous of.” – Faye Morgan

The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works 24/7, 365 from birth until you fall in love.

Sophie Monroe

Without Valentine’s Day, February would be…well, January.

Jim Gaffigan

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

H. L. Mencken

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Pearl Bailey

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin

Between lovers, a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Helen Rowland

If you text ‘I love you’ to a person and the person writes back an emoji – no matter what that emoji, they don’t love you back.

Chelsea Peretti

You know how people say, “you can’t live without love”? Well, oxygen is even more important.

Dr. Gregory Houser

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Einstein Quote “Gravitation can’t be held responsible for people falling in love.”
“Gravitation can’t be held responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

Love doesn’t drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

Helen Gurley Brown

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

Melanie Griffith

Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on x-rays, but you know it’s there.

George Burns

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Henny Youngman

Would I rather be feared or loved? Umm… easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

Michael Scott, The Office

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

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen
Samuel Johnson Quote “Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience”
“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” – Samuel Johnson

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

Albert Einstein

An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.

Will Ferrell

Whatever you like (or don’t like!) about Valentine’s Day, we hope you enjoyed these great Valentine’s Day Quotes.

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Natalie Seale

Natalie Seale is a writer and researcher with an MA, MSc, and PhD in History from the University of Edinburgh. Natalie is an avid reader, a keen traveller, and enjoys cooking and walking with her English Spaniel. Her posts focus on inspiring ideas and tips that help people learn, gro, and inspire others.

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