Valentine’s Day, celebrated annually on February 14th, is a day dedicated to expressing love and affection between intimate companions. While its origins are rooted in Christian and Roman traditions, it has evolved into a global celebration of love in various forms. On Valentine’s Day, people commonly exchange cards, flowers, and gifts with their romantic partners as tokens of love. Red roses, in particular, have become a symbol of love and passion associated with this day. Additionally, chocolates, teddy bears, and other romantic gestures are often exchanged. Couples may choose to spend quality time together, whether through a romantic dinner, a weekend getaway, or simple moments of shared intimacy. Some individuals also take the opportunity to propose or reaffirm their commitment to one another. Valentine’s Day isn’t limited to romantic relationships; it has expanded to celebrate love in all its forms. Friends, family members, and even pets may receive expressions of affection on this day. It’s a time to appreciate and acknowledge the meaningful connections that bring joy and warmth to our lives. While the celebration has commercial aspects, with the sale of cards and gifts being a significant part of the tradition, many people see Valentine’s Day as a chance to express their feelings and strengthen the bonds of love and connection in their lives.
Valentine’s Day Quotes
1. Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
— Ben Hecht
2. Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
— Samuel Lover
3. Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
— Zora Neale Hurston
4. Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.
— Kai Knudsen
5. 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 have seen angels, but I have seen thee, and thou art enough.
— George Edward Moore
6. Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
— Thomas Hood
7. For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
— Rosemonde Gerard
8. 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
9. The most important things are the hardest to say
— Stephen King
10. Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
— Aphra Behn
11. Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
— Oscar Wilde
12. This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
— Aberjhani
13. Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
— Ambrose Bierce
14. I need the star shine of your heavenly eyes, after the day’s great sun.
— Charles Hanson Towne
15. A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
— Rupert Brooke
16. Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
— Aberjhani
17. If I know what love is, it is because of you.
— Hermann Hesse
18. Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
— John Lennon
19. Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
“You are blessed double if you are in love”
— honeya
20. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
— Albert Einstein
21. Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.
— Henry Van Dyke
22. When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
23. Love is the poetry of the senses.
— Honore de Balzac
24. Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
— Charles Dickens
25. Margaret Atwood quote: The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them…
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
— Margaret Atwood
26. You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad apart, and the joy in the heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
— Boethius
27. Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it’s just another way to bleed.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
28. Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
— James Thurber
29. This is love: to fly toward a secret sky
— Rumi
30. “Today is Valentine’s Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!”
— Jay Leno
31. “I’m not alone, but I am lonely without you.”
— Mary Martin
32. “What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.”
— Pearl Bailey
33. “Happy Valentine’s Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it.”
— Jeanette Winterson
34. “For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.”
— Rosemonde Gerard
35. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love.”
— Robert Fulghum
36. “One day you will ask me which is more important – my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
— Khalil Gibran
37. “If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”
— Maya Angelou
38. “Love is being stupid together.”
— Paul Valéry
39. “I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
— Albert Camus
40. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
— Ingrid Bergman
41. “Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”
— Henry David Thoreau
42. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
— William Shakespeare
43. “Love and a cough cannot be hid.”
— George Herbert
44. “Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”
— Robert Browning
45. “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.”
— Ben Hecht
46. “The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.”
— Margaret Atwood
47. “Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”
— E.E. Cummings
48. “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
49. “Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
— William Shakespeare
50. “When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.”
— C. S. Lewis
51. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
— Maya Angelou
52. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.”
— Eva Gabor
53. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
— Robert Frost
54. “Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
55. “A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.”
— Thomas Moore
56. “The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
57. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.”
— Thomas Merton
58. “How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
— Oscar Wilde
59. “Romance is thinking about your significant other when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”
— Nicholas Sparks
60. “Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
61. “I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.”
— Dr. Seuss
62. “True love stories never have endings.”
— Richard Bach
63. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
64. “As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”
— William Shakespeare
65. “Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”
— John Keats
66. “Love is the poetry of the senses.”
— Honoré de Balzac
67. “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 have seen angels, but I have seen thee, and thou art enough.”
— George Edward Moore
68. “We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.”
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
69. “Sympathy constitutes friendship, but in love, there is a sort of antipathy or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
70. “Love is metaphysical gravity.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
71. Apollo has peeped through the shutter,
And awakened the witty and fair;
The boarding school belle’s in a flutter,
The twopenny post’s in despair;
The breath of the morning is flinging
Magic on blossom and spray,
And cockneys and sparrows are singing
In chorus on Valentine’s Day.
— Winthrop Mackworth Praed
72. If you love yourself first, you will find your Valentine much quicker!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
73. Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
— e. e. cummings
74. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
— Laozi
75. On Valentine’s Day or in any other day, the brightest star is not Venus or Jupiter but the very love in people’s hearts!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
76. In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
— Rumi
77. I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
— Albert Camus
78. I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
— Rita Rudner
79. Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
— Robert Browning
80. We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
81. The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
— Rumi
82. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
— Albert Einstein
83. Are we not like two volumes of one book?
— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
84. Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
— Madame de Stael
85. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
— Blaise Pascal
86. ‘Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
— Judy Garland
87. I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
— Emma Goldman
88. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
— William Shakespeare
89. True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
— Erich Segal
90. 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
91. You know you’re in love when you stop comparing.
— Mason Cooley
92. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
93. You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
— Dr. Seuss
94. When love is not madness, it is not love.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
95. Where there is love there is life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
96. Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
— Saint Augustine
97. Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday.
— Lindsay Ellingson
98. Valentine’s Day is like Armistice Day – you declare a truce.
— Milton Berle
99. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
— Helen Keller
100. As the most romantic day of the year approaches, and as a brand that is uniquely male, we wanted to find out how men really feel about Valentine’s Day, and how they want to celebrate it. The Johnnie Walker Blue Label Luxury Survey tells us what gifts men really want versus what gifts women think men want for Valentine’s Day – and the reality is that we’re not as far apart as we like to think.
— Christopher Parsons
101. All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine’s Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn’t – or hasn’t yet – materialized.
— Tracy McMillan
102. Although the traditional focus of Valentine’s Day is on women and the gifts they desire, this survey found that not only do men like to get gifts for Valentine’s Day, but they also like those gifts to be luxurious. Sixty-three percent of the people we surveyed agreed that this Valentine’s Day, Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a great gift for the men in their lives.
— Christopher Parsons
103. Here’s my problem. On Valentine’s Day the flowers are wilting and so am I.
— David Letterman
104. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
— Dale Carnegie
105. I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine’s Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.
— Tom Rush
106. Since love is magic, Valentine’s Day is the day of magicians! Whoever loves creates magic; whoever is loved, magic is created!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
107. Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
— Gerald Jampolsky
108. Valentine’s Day is the day when you remember that Cupid was a lousy shot.
— Milton Berle
109. I advocate speaking words of love with all the sincerity that can be mustered, as frequently as possible.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
110. The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
— Paulo Coelho
111. The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
— Jennifer Aniston
112. Any guy hates Valentine’s Day. Even if you’re in love, you can’t win on Valentine’s Day. If you’re married, you can’t win on Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
— Vince Vaughn
113. Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
— Gerald Jampolsky
114. May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
— Henry David Thoreau
115. I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
— John Keats
116. I like Valentine’s Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, that you don’t dare let the day go by without making an offering, whether you mean it or not. Money exceeds affection.
— Andy Rooney
117. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
— Ingrid Bergman
118. Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
— James Earl Jones
119. Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in.
— Courteney Cox
120. Things must be felt with the heart.
— Helen Keller
121. If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
— Maya Angelou
122. Love is a game that two can play and both win.
— Eva Gabor
123. All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
— Charles M. Schulz
124. Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
— Voltaire
125. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
— Robert A. Heinlein
126. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
— Leo Tolstoy
127. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
— Robert Browning
128. How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
— Victor Hugo
129. Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
— William Wordsworth
130. Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening – Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
— Plato
131. The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
— Rumi
132. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee, and thou art enough.
— George Edward Moore
133. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
— Audrey Hepburn
134. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
135. Love and a cough cannot be hid.
— George Herbert
136. We loved with a love that was more than love.
— Edgar Allan Poe
137. Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day’s Saint Valentine’s.
For that good bishop’s sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
— Michael Drayton
138. Don’t wait until it’s too late to say I love you.
— Stana Katic
139. Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.
— Mignon McLaughlin
140. Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
— Mignon McLaughlin
141. For those who love… time is eternity.
— Henry Van Dyke
142. The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
— Aristotle
143. Valentine’s Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of a bubble bath, use the lavender-scented dishwashing liquid. Forget rose petals. Sprinkle the bed with sliced beets!
— David Letterman