163 New Relationship Quotes to Inspire Your Love Story

Is there anything as exhilarating as the early stages of a new relationship? 

If you’re currently in your love bubble, or reminiscing about the early days of your love affair, these new relationship quotes are just what you need. 

Staying up all night learning everything you can about each other, lazy Sunday afternoons in each other's arms, and of course, those romantic date nights. Everyone wishes they could bottle these memories up and keep them forever — but these love quotes are the next best thing! 

1. "People should fall in love with their eyes closed." — Andy Warhol

2. “Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” — Walter Winchell

3. “The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.” — Woody Allen

4. "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul." — Charles Dickens

5. “The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged, or given an ultimatum.” – Mandy Hale

6. "Fall in love with someone who makes you glad to be different." — Sue Zhao

7. “They slipped away briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. “True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” — François de la Rochefoucauld

9. "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." — A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh 

10. "To get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with." — Mark Twain

11. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because the reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss

12. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” ― Sarah Dessen

13. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens

14. "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." — Jorge Luis Borges

15. “A successful relationship requires falling in love multiple times, but always with the same person." — Unknown

16. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” ― Audrey Hepburn

17. "The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it." — Nicholas Sparks

18. “I just need you and some sunsets.” — Atticus

19. “Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” — Vincent Van Gogh

20. "We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun." — ​A. A. Milne

21. “Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.” — Oscar Wilde

22. “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” ― Erich Segal

23. “We cannot really love anyone with whom we never laugh.” — Agnes Repplier

24. "When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then." — Paulo Coelho

25. "Once I knew you I never wanted to know anyone else." — Leo Christopher

26. “You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love … I love … I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.” – Pride and Prejudice

27. “I never want to stop making memories with you.” – Pierre Jeanty

28. "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." — Albert Einstein

29. "That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is." — Nicholas Sparks

30. “Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.” — William Shakespeare

31. "Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." — Oscar Wilde

32. “The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” ― Jane Austen

33. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ― Helen Keller

34. "Don't ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it." — Toni Morrison

35. "A view of the ocean, mountains, and the sunset. But yet, he was still looking at me." — Aly Aubry

36. “All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.” ― Leo Tolstoy

37. "True love stories never have endings." — Richard Bach

38. “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” ― William Shakespeare

39. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”— Maya Angelou

40. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies” ― Aristotle

41. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” ― Charles Dickens

42. “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” ― Vladimir Nabokov

43. "Promise me you'll never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave." ― A.A. Milne

44. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." — Lao Tzu

45. "We are asleep until we fall in love." — Leo Tolstoy

46. "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, fulfillment, and a new beginning." — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

47. “Happily Ever After is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.” — Fawn Weaver

48. "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." — Oscar Wilde

49. “New love is grand. Savor all the crazy, muddled might of it.” ― Eli Easton

50. “Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” — Richard Bach

51. "To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world." — Dr. Seuss

52. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” ― Nicholas Sparks

53. “My heart is, and always will be, yours.” — Jane Austen

54. “A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself – to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.” ― Leo Buscaglia

55. "Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." — Mother Teresa

56. “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside you.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

57. “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”— Dalai Lama

58. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." — Emily Brontë

59. "To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship." — Domenico Cieri Estrada

60. “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” — Sam Keen

61. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

62. "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

63. "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." — Andre Breton

64. “In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.” — Theodor Reik

65. "Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin P. Jones

66. "Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

67. "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds." — Nicholas Sparks

68. "In the end, there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to." — Robert Brault

69. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” — Nikki Giovanni

70. "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." — James Baldwin

71. "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." — Khalil Gibran

72. "To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous." — Elizabeth Gilbert

73. "Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused." — Paulo Coelho

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

75. "Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end." — Madame de Staël

76. "The art of love is largely the art of persistence." — Albert Ellis

77. "In love, one and one are one." — Jean-Paul Sartre

78. "You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness." — Julia Roberts

79. "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." — Morrie Schwartz

80. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” — Rumi

81. "The most beautiful thing is to see a person you love smiling. And even more beautiful is knowing that you are the reason behind it." — Unknown

82. "Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." — John Lennon

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

84. "The giving of love is an education in itself." — Eleanor Roosevelt

85. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou

86. "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not." — Jodi Picoult

87. "In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." — Erich Fromm

88. "In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." — Mignon McLaughlin

89. "Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." — Karl Menninger

90. "Where there is love there is life." — Mahatma Gandhi

91. "Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it." — Rabindranath Tagore

92. "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." — Peter Ustinov

93. "Love is the strongest force the world possesses." — Mahatma Gandhi

94. "Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star." — E.E. Cummings

95. "Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person." — James Thurber

96. "Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other." — Felix Adler

97. “True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.” — Michael Bassey Johnson

98. “I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

99. "Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation." — Rabindranath Tagore

100. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

101. "Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time." — Germaine De Stael

102. "Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference." — Helen James

103. "We are shaped and fashioned by those we love." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

104. "Where love reigns, the impossible may be attained." — Indian Proverb

105. “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” — Helen Keller

106. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

107. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

108. "Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom." — Rabindranath Tagore

109. "To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything." — T. Tolis

110. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." — Plato

111. "When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before." — Blaise Pascal

112. "Love is not about possession, it’s all about appreciation." — Chinese Proverb

113. "Life is a flower of which love is the honey." — Victor Hugo

114. "Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels." — Greg Evans

115. "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop." — H. L. Mencken

116. “When love is not madness, it is not love.” — Pedro Calderón de la Barca

117. "The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." — Henry Miller

118. "All you need is love." — The Beatles

119. "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn

120. "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." — Andre Breton

121. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.” — Nicholas Sparks

122. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." — David Viscott

123. “Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

124. "Love is a game that two can play and both can win." — Eva Gabor

125. “In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.” — Maya Angelou

126. “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” — Arrigo Boito

127. "Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before." — Mignon McLaughlin

128. "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." — James Baldwin

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

130. "Sometimes the person you fall for isn’t ready to catch you." — Unknown

131. “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.” — Thomas Merton

132. "Love is an adventure and a conquest." — Simone de Beauvoir

133. "Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever." — Audre Lorde

134. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost

135. "There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." — Friedrich Nietzsche

136. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin

137. "In true love, you attain freedom." — Thich Nhat Hanh

138. "To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." — Karen Sunde

139. "Love is the beauty of the soul." — Saint Augustine

140. "To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous." — Elizabeth Gilbert

141. "Love is the flower you've got to let grow." — John Lennon

142. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

143. “Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.” — Sylvia Plath

144. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou

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

146. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” — Donald Miller

147. "The giving of love is an education in itself." — Eleanor Roosevelt

148. "Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one." — Unknown

149. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” — Jodi Picoult

150. "Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it." — Nicholas Sparks

151. “Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones

152. "In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." — Mignon McLaughlin

153. "A true relationship is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other." — Unknown

154. "Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." — Robert A. Heinlein

155. "Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly." — Sam Keen

156. "A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved." — Leo F. Buscaglia

157. "To love is to burn, to be on fire." — Jane Austen

158. “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss

159. "A relationship is not based on the length of time you spent together, it’s based on the foundation you built together." — Unknown

160. "In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable." — Madame de Stael

161. “What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” — Sinclair Lewis

162. “Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.” — David Byrne

163. "Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do." — David Wilkerson

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