Wondering what to write on that Valentine’s Day card? No worries!
Whether you’re sending greetings to a friend, relative, or your sweetheart,
we think you’ll find a favorite on this list of 50 quotes and verses about love.

Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
I John 3:18  

I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.
King Lear by William Shakespeare

Let all that you do be done in love.
I Corinthians 16:14

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

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

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
I John 4:12

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
I know by experience that the poets are right: Love is eternal.
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,”
and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Romans 13:8-9

Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein

Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away.
If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
Song of Songs 8:7

It has made me better loving you … it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter.
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

I thank my God every time I remember you.
Philippians 1:3

You don’t love because, you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.
Psalm 52:8

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

My beloved is mine, and I am his.
Song of Songs 2:16a 

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
John 15:13

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
I Peter 4:8

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.
Proverbs 15:17

Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
I Corinthians 13:13

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther

If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Hermann Hesse

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Romans 12:9

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Emma by Jane Austen

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein

For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thou art not, desolation.
Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21

In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.
Virginia Woolf

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:  
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
Proverbs 10:12

If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control;
against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23 

Love is something eternal … The aspect may change, but not the essence.
Vincent Van Gogh

I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
Song of Songs 7:10

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
I Corinthians 13:4-8 

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts,
kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and,
if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other;
as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3:12-14

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
Romans 12:10 

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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