Valentine’s Day Quotes | Inspiration & Examples

Valentine’s Day quotes are excerpts from books, poems, music, and films that communicate feelings of love.

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What are Valentine’s Day quotes?

Valentine’s Day quotes include any passage of writing or lyrics that capture the love you feel—whether for a romantic partner or a friend. They are perfect for including in a Valentine’s Day card.

Here are some Valentine’s Day quote ideas to help you get inspired:

• Positive valentines’ day quotes
• Funny Valentine’s day quotes for friends
• Valentine’s day quotes for him
• Valentine’s Day quotes for her
• Short and sweet Valentine’s Day quotes

Positive Valentine’s day quotes

Positive Valentine’s Day quotes speak to the transformative and inspiring qualities of love.

Here are 10 positive Valentine’s Day quotes and love messages that you can enjoy whether you’re single or in a relationship:

1. “Love is the art of seeing eternity in a fleeting glance, a timeless dance without steps.” ―Aloo Denish Obiero, Kenyan scientist and writer
2. “Touch of the wind, touch of the water, touch of the spring flowers… none of these are as great as the touch of love!” ―Mehmet Murat İldan, Turkish writer
3. “Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.” ―Esther Perel, psychotherapist and author of Mating in Captivity
4. “Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.” ―Bell Hooks, author of All About Love: New Visions
5. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.” —Socrates, Greek philosopher
6. “Love is a gift of one’s innermost soul to another so both can be whole.” —Buddha
7. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher
8. “The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher
9. “Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.” —Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright
10. “Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.” —Plato, Greek philosopher

Funny Valentine’s Day quotes for friends

Funny Valentine’s Day quotes for friends communicate the value of platonic love. Rather than expressing passion and intensity you might when romantic feelings are involved, these quotes use humor and lightheartedness.

Share these 10 funny Valentine’s quotes for friends with the pals in your life:

1. “A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.” —Arnold H. Glasow, American businessman
2. “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer
3. “If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.” —Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor
4. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” —Linda Grayson, author
5. “’Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” —Charles Lamb, English essayist and poet
6. “Uteruses before duderuses … Ovaries before brovaries.” —Leslie Knope, Parks & Recreation
7. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows you are slightly cracked.” —Bernard Meltzer, American radio host
8. “Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.” —Charles Dickens, English novelist
9. “Friendship is so weird… you just pick a human you’ve met, and you’re like ‘yep, I like this one.’” —Bill Murray, American actor and comedian
10. “The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” —Jay McInerney, author of The Last of the Savages

Valentine’s Day quotes for him

Valentine’s Day quotes for him include passages from novels, film, and music that express how you feel toward a male romantic partner.

These 10 Valentine’s Day quotes for him are perfect for that special someone:

1. “I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.” —Charlotte Brontë, author of Jane Eyre
2. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” —J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings
3. “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” —Charlotte Brontë author of Wuthering Heights
4. “she asked / ‘you are in love, / what does love look like?’ / to which i replied, / ‘like everything i’ve ever lost / come back to me.’” ―Nayyirah Waheed, poet

5. “I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.” —Angelita Lim, American-Canadian roboticist
6. “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, American writer and civil rights activist
7. “You are one of those people you meet when life decides to give you a gift.” —Charles Dickens, English novelist
8. “I love you, and I like you.” —Ben Wyatt and Leslie Knope in Parks & Recreation
9. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this…” —Pablo Neruda, Chilean politician, poet, and author of “Love Sonnet XVII”
10. “Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. … If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth.” —Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese monk

Valentine’s Day quotes for her

Valentine’s Day quotes for her focus on expressing romantic feelings for the female romantic partner in your life.

Try sharing one of these 10 Valentine’s Day quotes for her with your partner this year:

1. “You make me happier than I ever thought I could be and if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.” —Chandler Bing, Friends
2. “Once again, love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.” ―Sappho, Greek poet
3. “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” —Leo Tolstoy, author of Anna Karenina
4. “I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again…and when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me.” —Philip Pullman, author of The Amber Spyglass
5. “The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.” —Arundhati Roy, author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
6. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.” —Alfred Tennyson, English poet and politician
7. “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” —H. Jackson Brown Jr., American author
8. “A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.” —Henry Wadsworth, American poet
9. “You’re nothing short of my everything.” —Ralph Block, American film producer
10.  “I exist in two places: Here and where you are.” —Margaret Atwood, Canadian author

Short and sweet Valentine’s Day quotes

Short and sweet Valentine’s Day quotes are perfect Valentine’s Day wishes to send over text or to save and use as affirmations.

Frequently asked questions about Valentine’s Day quotes

What are examples of Happy Valentine’s Day quotes?

Examples of Happy Valentine’s Day quotes include:

• “To the romantic soul, the rituals of Valentine’s Day echo every day of the year.”
• “One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.” —Socrates, Greek philosopher

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What are some sarcastic Valentine’s Day quotes that are funny?

Sarcastic Valentine’s Day quotes that are funny include:

• “The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” —Jay McInerney, author of The Last of the Savages
• “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer

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Where can I find Happy Valentine’s Day wishes and quotes?

You can find Happy Valentine’s Day wishes and quotes in literature, song lyrics, and movies.

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