113 Short Love Quotes
Short love quotes to express heartfelt emotions and brighten someone's day.
Updated February 7, 2026, by
Catherine Pulsifer.
Let these short love quotes inspire you and help express the feelings in your heart. Perfect for more than just Valentine’s Day, these quotes can bring a smile to the face of someone special. Whether it’s in a card, a message, or a simple note, let these heartfelt words show your love and appreciation.
I love you - not just today, but I love always - in every way.
The Rose of Love in its red hue..softly it speaks saying I love you.
Love is a never-ending, ongoing habit firmly rooted in our hearts that cannot be destroyed through selfishness, anger, lack of hope, or the presence of evil and all of its manifestations.
"Love can take an ordinary
life and turn it into extraordinary. When we have people who care, support, and encourage us
it is amazing what can be done."
Just a little love, so little, and its value is so high.
Why is the love of another person like a garden? It is because each requires ongoing care and support.
Catherine Pulsifer
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Miss you more each and every day. Oh, how I love you in every way.
"Roses are red, violets are blue, I can't believe, how much I love you."
Birthdays will come and go but our love for you will always show
Febuary's the time to show we care spread warmth and love everywhere.
A mother's love is a special thing, it's a warmth that envelops everything
Roses are red, violets are blue, I can't believe, how much I love you.
Life can be strange and full of dazzle....what starts with a simple flirtatious smile soon leads to sweet stories that could last a while.
Catherine Pulsifer, Full Of Dazzle
To you my love, I just want to say, love you forever, not just today.
Love is the quiet strength that holds us close, even when words can't find their way.
Love is what binds us together, my love for you will be forever.
Catherine Pulsifer, Binds Us Together
My love for you will last forever, your hold on my heart is too strong to sever.
Could our love, every day, be to others as the love from our Maker above
Love, to endure life's sorrow and earth's woe, needs friendship's solid mason-work below.
At our tender age, love's power is quite clear - our bond will never falter, it stands so grand and tall
Catherine Pulsifer, Make Me Smile From Ear To Ear
The gift of love is priceless it means more than you can guess.
Catherine Pulsifer, Christmas Is Gifts
July, the month of wedding bells...love is felt in the warmest rays, as couples join in life's mirthful ways.
The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
The best kind of love is one that brings out the best in you and doesn’t try to make you be someone other than yourself.
Darling wife, I love you ever, angry words will part us never.
I. J. A. Miller, Compliment Your Wife
Wife Poem
Love is sharing my life with you. Loving you and all you do.
Love has the power to heal, uplift, and turn ordinary moments into cherished memories.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
A loving family is a blessing from above - it is one that is filled with much love.
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain loving one another.
When lovers part at eventide to meet again tomorrow...what other word so fitting sweet as, "Love, adieu, adieu"?
I love your eyes when the lovelight lies lit with a passionate fire.
Especially, do not feign affection. neither be cynical about love
Time is ....for those who love, time is Eternity.
Your love and kindness are something I can't ignore - it's why I chose you alone, today and forevermore.
The world doesn’t make sense without the ocean, like how my life doesn’t make sense without you.
Raihan Zubir
Adoption is when a child grew in it’s mommy’s heart instead of her tummy.
No matter what your age, I will love you. Together, you and me, will enjoy every stage.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Every relationship is a lesson in love.
Donna Goddard
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
To live in love is to live an everlasting youth. Whoever enters old age by this royal road will find the
last of life to be the very best of life.
May you always share the love you have this day as you are wed
"Love is patient, love is kind."
I Corinthians 13:4-8
I love thee, as I love the calm of sweet, star-lighted hours!
Though distance may separate us, it's true, know that my love for you will always renew.
Saying goodbye is the hardest part of loving someone.
Honeybunch, honey bee
To my heart, you hold the key.
The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.
It takes great love to stir the human heart - to live beyond the others and apart.
Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Heroism
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
Victor Hugo
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
St. Francis of Assisi
'Tis long, long since our new love made life divine; but age enricheth true love, like noble wine.
Gerald Massey, Oh, Lay Thy Hand In Mine, Dear
I just need you and some sunsets
The miracle of Christmas is the gift of Love
Wait not for Death to gem Love's crown, but daily shower life's blessings down
Unknown, Make Childhood Sweet
You can only receive bountiful love when you have first given it in quantity.
Because the birthday of my life is come, my love is come to me.
Mutual trust must exist between between participants in order for any relationship to become a sacred, cherished partnership.
We thank God for this gift from up above, the rose, the perfect flower of love!
There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.
Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.
Kathie Lee Gifford
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Charles Dickens
The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Together we are like a hand in a glove made to fit and in love
Hold a synod in thy heart, I'll never love thee more.
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Charles Dickens
A life without love is like a year without summer.
The moon and its broken reflection and its shadows shall appear, as the symbol of love in heaven
But love can warm a longing heart, to hasten all the way.
Arthur Franklin Fuller, My Little Comforter
Sad Poems
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it
All high happiness has in it some element of love; all love contains a desire for peace.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men.
St. Augustine
Live each day and be thankful for the people who love you and adore
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
So strangely sweet, it was not strange - we thought that love could never change.
There is no place in true love for disrespect, criticism, selfishness or neglect.
Dorothea S, Kopplin, Reglection
I love you and all you do. You're the man of my dreams life has never been better it seems.
Good morning my love. I thank the good Lord above for the blessing of life with you
Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.
I may not be happy with you right now, but I still love you.
Not loving God, we know not love's true worth, we taste not the great gift He gave to us.
Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - Stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death
How can we ease another's pain....'tis only loving kindness can. Ah! love will find a way.
My days are filled with thoughts of you. I love you so much that is true!
Love me little, love me long, is the burden of my song.
When roses bloom, and the moon swings high,
I shall live in the light of your dark brown eye.
"Love never dies. Neither do your deepest dreams."
Julie Donner Andersen
"Love is not reserved to only those who love you first."
Byron R. Pulsifer
We cannot love others if we don’t love ourselves first.
Sarah Kucera, The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook
"Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally
loved and that nothing - sickness, failure, emotional distress, oppression,
war, even death - can take that love away."
Henri Nouwen
Love or infatuation - sometimes it is so hard to tell. Love hits us when we least expect it and then we question, "is it love".
"The love shared and given is like
the honey spread upon the bread. The more you put on it the better it tastes."
Rosy Lee Anderson
"If you want to love yourself, you are going to need to learn how to deal with rejections."
Veronica Smith, Loving Yourself
God, please help us be the body of Christ that you asked us to be that guides us to love one another in gentleness and understanding.
B. Pulsifer
The fate that made me wander far at last has brought me home to thee, dear haven of my heart, and I no more will roam.
Henry VanDyke, Arrival
How blessed I am to have a man like you, your love is felt in all you do.
"An abundance of love is the only true
wealth one can possess."
T. H. Russo, How To Tell Someone You Love Them
It takes strength to love, it takes courage to be loved.
Be thankful for the simple things - just stop and see people who love you to every degree.
May Christmas love stay with us throughout the year
Catherine Pulsifer, 'Twas The Night Before Christmas Message
"You love me without even wanting, it comes so easy to you."
"Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value."
Dr. Phil McGraw, Love Smart
I love you more and more each day - I love you more in every way
Catherine Pulsifer, Love YOU more verses
Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making.
Reba McEntire
Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove, the Linnet and Thrush say, "I love and I love!"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Answer to a Child's Question
...when I speak to you I speak as though I am offering a rose in your hand.
Together, we share a love so strong, I am so in love with you.
"Parental love is crucial for children's growth."
Edward Dunedin
The most dedicated love is that of a mother for a child. It is a love that is forever.
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