300+ Best True Love Quotes For Couples

A true relationship is when two people do not give up on each other, come what may. Let’s learn more about it by reading some of the most famous true love quotes for couples. These quotations are a blend of wonderful sayings by poets, celebrities, and relationship experts. We have also picked some popular quotes from romantic movies and plays that express true love. So read on to relive the enchanting journey of love that explains what brought you and your partner together. It can take you back to the indelible time when you felt like your partner swept you off your feet and made you fall head over heels in love with them for everlasting times.

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300+ True Love Quotes For Couples

  1. “What we typically call love is only the start of love.” —Alain de Botton

Simple true love quotes for couples
  1. “True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  2. “True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  3. “True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.” —Holliday Grainger.
  4. “True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” —Honore de Balzac
  5. “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” —Erich Segal
  6. “Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.” —M. Scott Peck.
  7. “True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.” —Ricardo Montalban
  8. “True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.” —Monica Johnson
  9. “True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.” —Leanna L. Bartram
  10. “True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.” —Ellen G. White
  11. “True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.” —Dada Vaswani
  12. “True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!” —Dada Vaswani
  13. “The real love is the one that makes you forget all the others.” —Marty Rubin
  14. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning, a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, But still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” —Bruce Lee
  15. “Real love means remaining truthful, even when you have all the opportunity in the world to hurt someone.” —Michael Hayssus
  16. “Real love isn’t just a euphoric, spontaneous feeling – it’s a deliberate choice; a plan to love each other for better and worse, for richer and poorer, in sickness and in health.” —Seth Adam Smith
  17. “Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.” —Don Miguel Ruiz
  18. “You are the butter to my bread and the breath of my life.” – Julia Child
  19. “Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.” —Thich Nhat Hanh
  1. “Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person.” —Thich Nhat Hanh
  2. “You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

Person you love feels free, true love quotes for couples
  1. “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” —When Harry Met Sally
  2. “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.” —Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  3. “Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby—awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.” —Lemony Snicket
  4. “Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.” —Bell Hooks
  5. “To love is to enjoy seeing, touching, and sensing with all the senses, as closely as possible, a lovable object which loves in return.” —Stendhal
  6. “Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.” —Anatole France
  7. “Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.” —Carroll Bryant
  8. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” —Victor Hugo
  9. “The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.” — Victor Hugo
  10. “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.” — Victor Hugo
  11. “Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun, like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” —Fred Rogers
  12. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” —Anaïs Nin
  13. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.” —Anaïs Nin
  14. “Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne
  15. “The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.” —Lawrence Durrell
  16. “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’” —Erich Fromm
  17. “Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people; you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.” —Sylvester Stallone
  18. “It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they’re destined to be.” —Michelle Yeoh
  19. “I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.” —F. Sagan
  20. “If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.” —Shannon L. Alder

If he can't handle you at your worst, toxic relationship quotes
  1. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” —Jodi Picoult
  2. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” —Ursula K Le Guin
  3. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by the imagination.” —Voltaire
  4. “Two souls with but a single thought. Two hearts that beat as one!” —John Keats
  5. “True love brings up everything—you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.” —Jennifer Aniston
  6. “Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.” —Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  7. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche
  8. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.” ―Pablo Neruda
  1. “Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” ―Alexander Smith
  2. “Absence diminishes small love and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.” —Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
  3. “Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.” —Felix Adler
  4. “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.” —The Notebook
  5. “You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.” —Jane Austen
  6.  “If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.” —Michel de Montaigne
  7. “Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.” —Fulton J. Sheen
  8. “Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.” —Alain de Botton
  9. “The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else’s flaws, so of course you’re gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, ‘If you loved me, you wouldn’t criticize me.’ Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.” —Alain de Botton
  10. “Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.” —Boethius
  11. “Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn’t know were there, even the ones they wouldn’t have thought to call beautiful themselves.” —Hilary T. Smith
  12. “Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: for love is sufficient unto love.” —Kahlil Gibran

Love is sufficient unto love, true love quotes for couples
  1. “True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.” —Justin Timberlake
  2. “In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
  3. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” —Eva Gabor
  4. “I love you” begins by I, but it ends up by you.” ―Charles de Leusse
  5. “Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it’s something rare and beautiful when people can confide in each other without fearing what the other person will think.” ―E.A. Bucchianeri
  6. “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So, anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.” —Haruki Marukmi
  7. “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” ―Haruki Murakami
  8. “Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.” —André Aciman
  9. “Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.” —Chris Moore
  10. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” —Lao Tzu
  11. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
  12. “Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and, when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.” ―Louis de Bernières
  13. “Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.” ―Louis de Bernières
  14. “Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
  15. “Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.” —Dorothy Parker
  16. “The giving of love is an education in itself.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  17. “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” —T. Tolis
  18. “Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.” —Elbert Hubbard
  19. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” —Peter Ustinov
  1. “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

I saw that you were perfect, true love quotes for couples
  1. “Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood.” —Karen Casey
  2. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” —Robert A. Heinlein
  3. “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” — Vladimir Nabokov
  4. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.” —1 Corinthians 13: 4–6
  5. “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” —Sam Keen
  6. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” —Washington Irving
  7. “Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. —John Donne
  8. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  9. “Real love is seeing that the one you love is happy even when you do things for them that makes you unhappy. Because their happiness is paramount.” —Jerry Elijah
  10. “Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter’s frost and chill, summer’s warmth is in them still.” —Leo Buscaglia.
  11. “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
  12. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” —James Baldwin
  13. “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” —Roy Croft
  14. “All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  15. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle.
  16. “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” —Tom Robbins
  17. “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
  18. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” ―Marilyn Monroe
  19. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou
  20. “Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.” —Maya Angelou

Loving liberates the lover, true love quotes for couples
  1. “You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.” —David Levesque
  2. “Love’s involved with spending time together, but spending time apart, can lead to loving even more.” —Remember Me
  3. “Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.” —Theodor Reik
  4. “Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.” —Henry Ward Beecher
  5. “Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.” —Henry Ward Beecher
  6. “Life is a game and true love is a trophy.” —Rufus Wainwright
  7. “The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys.” —Hermann J. Steinherr
  8. “Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.” —Nick Richardson
  9. “Some people…no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty. They merely move it, from their faces into their hearts.” ―Martin Buxbaum
  10. “Do you know how you tell real love? It’s when someone else’s interest trumps your own. I like to put it that way: trumps your own.” –Brad Pitt
  11. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.” —Paulo Coelho
  12. “In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.” ―Diablo Cody, Juno
  13. “We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” —Sam Keen.
  14. “Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.” —John Dryden
  15. “Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.” —Thomas Merton
  16. “Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.” —William Arthur Ward
  17. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  18. “We simply can’t abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.” —Seth Adam Smith
  19. “The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.” —John Powell
  20. “Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” Alexander Smith

Love is discovery of ourselves, true love quotes for couples
  1. “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
  2. “Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.” —Stephen Packer
  3. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” —A. A. Milne
  4. “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.” —Katharine Hepburn
  5. “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” —Charles Dickens
  6. “Love is when reality is better than your dreams.” —Becky Graham
  7. “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” —Albert Ellis
  8. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson
  9. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. — Robert A. Heinlein
  10. “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” —Leo Christopher
  11. “You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving; it’s my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.” —Alanis Morrissette
  12. “True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.” —John Green
  13. “A Friend’s Love says: “If you ever need anything, I’ll be there.” True Love says: “You’ll never need anything, I’ll be there.” —Jimi Hollemans.
  14. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” — Andre Breton
  15. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” —Oprah Winfrey
  16. “A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.” —Honore de Balzac
  17. “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” —David Wilkerson
  18. “I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” —Leo Tolstoy
  19. “To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.” —Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz
  20. “You are lucky enough to be best friends who love each other and that’s the strongest kind of love because at its core it has kindness, patience, and respect.” —The Big Bang Theory

You are lucky enough, true love quotes for couples
  1. “In real love, you want the other person’s good. In romantic love, you want the other person.” ―Margaret C. Anderson.
  2. “Love is always bestowed as a gift—freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.” ―Leo Buscaglia
  3. “Love is not finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you can’t live without.” ―Rafael Ortiz
  4. “Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” – Rosemonde Gerard
  5. “I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” ―Nicholas Sparks
  6. “True love exudes itself in moments of silence as much it does in an occasion of ecstasy.” ―Anonymous
  7. “Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” ―Jeanne Moreau
  8. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” —Sophocles
  9. “When love is real, it finds a way.” —Avatar Roku
  10. “True love never lives happily ever after—true love has no ending.” —K. Knight
  11. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green
  12. “Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth.” – Eleanor Di Guillo
  13. “Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis
  14. “Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it has merely shown me that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.” – Doug Fetherling
  15. “The real lover is a man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” – Marilyn Monroe
  16. “I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.“ – Coco J. Ginger
  17. “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
  18. “My heart is and always will be yours.” – Jane Austen
  19. “I’ll be loving you, always with a love that’s true” – Patsy Cline
  20. “If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you.” – Deanna Anderson
  21. “I need you like a heart needs a beat.” – One Republic
  22. “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland
  23. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
  24. “No matter where I went, I always knew my way back to you. You are my compass star.” – Diana Peterfreund
  25. ”I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  26. “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.” – Rabindranath Tagore
  27. “I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.” – Pablo Neruda
  28. “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” – Brendan Francis
  29. “My love for you has no depth; its boundaries are ever-expanding.” – Christina White
  30. ”Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” – Oscar Wilde
  31. “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo
  32. “You make me want to be a better man.” – Melvin Udall
  33. “Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.” – Inconnu
  34. “Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.” – Elvis Presley
  35. “The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said to have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” – George Moore
  36. Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
  37. “A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.” – Henry Wadsworth
  38. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” – Sarah Dessen
  39. “I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
  40. “He is not a lover who does not love forever.” – Euripides
  41. “Ask me to define my love for you and I’ll say it’s captured in every beautiful memory of our past, detailed out in vivid visions of our dreams and future plans, but most of all it’s right now, at the moment where everything I’ve ever wanted in my life is standing right in front of me.” – Leo Christopher
  42. “To love is to burn, to be on fire.” – Jane Austen
  43. “Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.” – Moliere
  44. “In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing.” – Jack Kornfield
  45. “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
  46. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis
  47. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
  48. “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis
  49. “True love – that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy – is a choice. It’s a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances.” – Mark Manson
  50. “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
  51. “Love understands love; it needs no talk.” – Francis Havergal
  52. “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” – Pablo Neruda
  53. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Oscar Wilde
  54. “Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.” – Ovid
  55. “Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.” – Margaret Walker
  56. “Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke
  57. “Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.” – Mortimer Adler
  58. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
  59. “Love brings to life whatever is dead around us.” – Franz Rosenzweig
  60. “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” – Ben Hecht
  61. “Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.” ― Tori Spelling
  62. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
  63. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” —Henry David Thoreau
  64. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” ― Jean de La Fontaine
  65. ”My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.” – André Breton
  66. “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – Harry Burns
  67. ”A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Kurt Vonnegut
  68. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
  69. ”Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” – Elinor Glyn
  70. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
  71. “I will never stop trying. Because when you find the one… you never give up.” — Crazy, Stupid, Love
  72. “Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.” – James Thurber
  73. “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  74. “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward
  75. “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – Paulo Coelho
  76. “You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.”– Karen Salmansohn
  77. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide
  78. “I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” ― Steve Maraboli
  79. “This has been my life; I found it worth living.” – Bertrand Russell
  80. “Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.” – George Burns
  81. “We must be our own before we can be another’s.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  82. “I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” – Rita Rudner
  83. “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” ― Orhan Pamuk
  84. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
  85. “Come live in my heart and pay no rent.” – Samuel Lover
  86. “Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.” – Tom Freston
  87. “I love you like a fat kid loves cake.” – Scott Adams
  88. “The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.” ― Gabrielle Roy
  89. “It’s always better when we’re together.” — Jack Johnson
  90. “Love means to see the one you love happy.” ― Nicholas Sparks
  91. “I wasn’t expecting you. I didn’t think that we would end up together. The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you. I’ve never been seen so completely, loved so passionately and protected so fiercely.” —This Is Us
  92. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust
  93. “Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” – Vincent van Gogh
  94. “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
  95. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald
  96. “Marriage is like vitamins: we supplement each other’s minimum daily requirements.” – Kathy Mohnke
  97. “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” – Henry David Thoreau
  98. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde
  99. “Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.” – Judy Collins
  100. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles Schulz
  101. “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  102. “Two are better than one.” — Ecclesiastes 4:9
  103. “There is my heart, and then there is you, and I’m not sure there is a difference.” — A.R. Asher
  104. “I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
  105. “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
  106. “Marry a man your own age; as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.” – Phyllis Diller
  107. “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” – William Shakespeare
  108. “If you love ’em in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love ’em at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.” – Miles Davis
  109. “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
  110. “Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.” – Judith Viorst
  111. “You are the one girl that made me risk everything for a future worth having.” — Simone Elkeles
  112. “My soul and your soul are forever tangled.” — N.R. Hart
  113. “Distance means so little when someone means so much.” — Tom McNeal
  114. “I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” — Ben Folds
  115. “I love that you are my person and I am yours, that whatever door we come to, we will open it together.” — A.R. Asher
  116. “I have found the one whom my soul loves.” — Song of Solomon 3:4
  117. “Love is not an emotion, it is your very existence.” — Rumi
  118. “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” —Emily Bronte
  119. “I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
  120. “Romantic love is a mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one.” – Fran Lebowitz
  121. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.” – Natalie Cole
  122. “I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.” – Elizabeth Evans
  123. “I hope you know that every time I tell you to get home safe, stay warm, have a good day, or sleep well what I am really saying is I love you. I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words’ meanings. ” – Open-365
  124. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
  125. “The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.” – Dalai Lama
  126. “I love true love, and I’m a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want.” – Ali Larter
  127. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
  128. “When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.” — Jess C. Scott
  129. “You call it madness, but I call it love.” – Don Byas
  130. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare
  131. “We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch
  132. “Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love”. – Mandy Hale
  133. “A life lived in love will never be dull.” – Leo Buscaglia
  134. “Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.” – Sarah Bernhardt
  135. “People do fall in love. People do belong to each other because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness.” — Paul Varjak
  136. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
  137. “Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” – Melissa Brown
  138. “When you adopt the view that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.” – Harry Palmer
  139. “All you need is love.” – Paul McCartney
  140. “You don’t marry someone you can live with. You marry the person who you cannot live without.” – Aleatha Romig
  141. “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
  142. “It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.” – Bruce Forsyth
  143. “Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” – Saint Ignatius
  144. “I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – Scott Fitzgerald.
  145. “Love is not a volunteer thing.” – Samuel Richardson
  146. “Lost with you, in you, and without you.” — K. Towne Jr.
  147. “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
  148. ”Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
  149. “I still haven’t figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do.” — William C. Hannan
  150. “Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.” – Tom Wolfe
  151. “What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” — Sinclair Lewis
  152. “If I could I would give you the world, but all I can do is just offer you my love.” —Prince, “Diamonds and Pearls”
  153. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” — Princess Diana
  154. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.” — Antoine de Saint Exupery
  155. “The love we give away is the only love we keep.” – Elbert Hubbard
  156. “I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say — I love you.” — William Shakespeare
  157. “Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.” – Houssaye
  158. “Our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it.” – A Walk to Remember
  159. “Trust your intuition and be guided by love.” – Charles Eisenstein
  160. ”Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity.” — Truth Devour
  161. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni
  162. “Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.” ― Ice-T
  163. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. But you want someone who’ll help you catch the bus.” ― Oprah Winfrey

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How can couples incorporate true love quotes into their everyday lives?

Couples can use true love quotes to express and send these quotes to their partner to remind them of their enduring love.

2. Can true love quotes help couples overcome challenges in their relationship?

True love quotes can help couples strengthen their bond and overcome challenges in their relationship by reminding them to cherish their love and affection for each other.

3. What are some of the best ways to express true love to your partner?

Sending your partner true love quotes in romantic letters or texts, or reading them aloud can surely make your partner feel special. Use true love quotes to show your love, admiration, fondness, and appreciation for your partner. You can use them as a means to express sincere gratitude for everything your partner does for you.

4. Are there any cultural differences in how true love is expressed through quotes?

Different cultures may have specific ways of expressing love and intimacy through quotes. Cultural values and beliefs may influence and determine the types of love quotes that can be appropriate to use and share.

No matter what stage of a relationship you are in, sending your soulmate warm and adoring messages will brighten their day. Send your partner these true love quotes for couples and let them know how you feel about them. Finding new ways to express your love regularly would keep your partner on their toes and your relationship sizzling. This is why we have included quotes of all categories in this post, including those spoken by celebrities. So switch your general I love you messages with these quotes and swoon them away with your abundant love.

Infographic: Heartfelt Quotes About True Love

In today’s world, where love has just become an overused word, finding your true love is a great achievement. Also, true love is subjective. For some, it can mean being together forever, while for others, it means staying apart for the partner’s happiness. Check out the infographic below to discover some inspirational sayings about true love.

inspirational true love quotes for him and her (infographic)

Illustration: Momjunction Design Team

Key Pointers

  • Love quotes help the couple communicate their feelings and remind them of their lasting love.
  • These quotes allow you to remember the magical journey of love that led you and your partner together.
  • True love quotes can help build their bonds and overcome obstacles in their relationships.
  • You can make your partner feel extra special by reading or sending romantic letters or texts containing love quotes.

Illustration: Best True Love Quotes For Couples

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Image: Stable Diffusion/MomJunction Design Team


True love is a transformative journey that demands time and dedication. It flourishes with patience and unwavering commitment, transcending fleeting moments into a lifetime of bliss.

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