113 Short Love Quotes

Short love quotes to express heartfelt emotions and brighten someone's day.

Your love colors my world brighter than any sunset ever could.

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.
Catherine Pulsifer, Always Be
Short Love Poems
The Rose of Love in its red hue..softly it speaks saying I love you.
Catherine Pulsifer, The Red Rose
Short Valentine Poems
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."
Catherine Pulsifer
Poems of Encouragement
Just a little love, so little, and its value is so high.
Unknown, Only A Little
Positive Poems
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.
Amy Carmichael
Giving Poems
Miss you more each and every day. Oh, how I love you in every way.
Catherine Pulsifer, Miss You More
I Miss You Poems
Roses are red, violets are blue, I can't believe, how much I love you.
"Roses are red, violets are blue, I can't believe, how much I love you."
Julie Hebert
Valentines Day Poems
Birthdays will come and go but our love for you will always show
Catherine Pulsifer, Come and Go
Birthday Poems
Febuary's the time to show we care spread warmth and love everywhere.
Catherine Pulsifer, The Shortest Month
February Poems
A mother's love is a special thing, it's a warmth that envelops everything
Catherine Pulsifer, Thank You Mother
Thank You Poems To Mom
Roses are red, violets are blue, I can't believe, how much I love you.
Julie Hebert, Valentines Roses
Valentine Poems For Him
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.
To you my love, I just want to say, love you forever, not just today.
Catherine Pulsifer, Without You
To My Love Poems
Love is the quiet strength that holds us close, even when words can't find their way.
Author Unknown
Commitment Poems
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.
Byron Pulsifer, My Love Will Last Forever
Valentines Poems For Her
Could our love, every day, be to others as the love from our Maker above
  Henry Reed Conant, The True Way
Christian Poems
Love, to endure life's sorrow and earth's woe, needs friendship's solid mason-work below.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Upon The Sand
Friendship Poems
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.
Catherine Pulsifer, Wedding Bells Ring
July Poems
The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.
Kate McGahan
Easter Poems
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt
Close by You
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.
Karon Waddell
Sharing Life
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
Love is sharing my life with you. Loving you and all you do.
Catherine Pulsifer, Love Is
Funny Love Poems
Love has the power to heal, uplift, and turn ordinary moments into cherished memories.
Catherine Pulsifer
Poems About The Power Of Love
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
David Mitchell
Poems About Books
A loving family is a blessing from above - it is one that is filled with much love.
Catherine Pulsifer, Families Are Forever
Poems About Family
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.
Erma Bombeck
Thank You Poems
When lovers part at eventide to meet again tomorrow...what other word so fitting sweet as, "Love, adieu, adieu"?
Melissa E. Banta, Parting Words
Goodbye Poems
I love your eyes when the lovelight lies lit with a passionate fire.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Joys Of A Living Love
Romantic Poems
Especially, do not feign affection. neither be cynical about love
Max Ehrmann
Desiderata Poem
Time is ....for those who love, time is Eternity
Time is ....for those who love, time is Eternity.
Henry VanDyke, Time Is
Poems About Time
Your love and kindness are something I can't ignore - it's why I chose you alone, today and forevermore.
Catherine Pulsifer, Your Special Day
Happy Birthday Poems To My Love
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?
Richard Rodgers
Poems About Beauty
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.
Mary A. Livermore
Poems on Aging
May you always share the love you have this day as you are wed
Patience Strong, Today Is The Beginning
Wedding Poems
Love is patient, love is kind.
"Love is patient, love is kind."
I Corinthians 13:4-8
I love thee, as I love the calm of sweet, star-lighted hours!
Eliza Acton, I Love Thee
I Love You Poems
Though distance may separate us, it's true, know that my love for you will always renew.
Catherine Pulsifer, In Your Arms
Goodbye Poems For Lovers
Saying goodbye is the hardest part of loving someone.
Author Unknown
Goodbye Quotes
Honeybunch, honey bee
To my heart, you hold the key.
Catherine Pulsifer, Honeybunch, Honey Bee
Birthday Poems for Husband
The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.
William Gurnall
Poems About 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
Zelma S. Dennis, The Christmas Miracle
Christmas Poems About 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.
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.
Sue Patton Thoele
Quotes About Trust
We thank God for this gift from up above, the rose, the perfect flower of love!
Catherine Pulsifer, The Flower Of Love
Rose Poems
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
Charles Finch
Funny Valentine Poems
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
Catherine Pulsifer, Together We Are
Soulmate Poems
Hold a synod in thy heart, I'll never love thee more.
James Graham, I'll Never Love Thee More
Love Poems For Her
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.
Swedish Proverb
Quotes About 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
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.
James Lane Allen, Happiness
Poems About Happiness
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
Byron Pulsifer, You Deserve The Best Brother
Happy Birthday To My Brother
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
Laugh Quotes
So strangely sweet, it was not strange - we thought that love could never change.
Robert Bridges, Love's Change
Poems About 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.
Catherine Pulsifer, Man Of My Dreams
Love Poems For Him
Good morning my love. I thank the good Lord above for the blessing of life with you
Samatha Lynch, Good Morning My Love
Good Mornng Poems
Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.
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.
Janet Gurtle
Quotes For A Friend
Not loving God, we know not love's true worth, we taste not the great gift He gave to us.
Alaurice Francis Egan, Great Gift
Poems About God's Love
Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - Stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death
Henry VanDyke, Keeping Christmas
Christmas Poems
How can we ease another's pain....'tis only loving kindness can. Ah! love will find a way.
Martha S. Lippincott, Loving Kindness
Kindness Poems
My days are filled with thoughts of you. I love you so much that is true!
Mary S. Scotsburn, Thought of Love Just For You
Thinking Of You Poem
Love me little, love me long, is the burden of my song
Love me little, love me long, is the burden of my song.
Author Unknown, Love Me Little, Love Me Long
Famous Love Poems
When roses bloom, and the moon swings high,
I shall live in the light of your dark brown eye.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, In Faith
Love Poetry Quotes
"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
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".
Kate Summers
What Is Love Poem
"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.
Catherine Pulsifer, Thank God For You
Love Poems For Husband
An abundance of love is the only true wealth one can possess
"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.
Unknown, It Takes Strength & Courage
Poems About Strength
Be thankful for the simple things - just stop and see people who love you to every degree.
Catherine Pulsifer, What Are
Poems About Life
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."
Julie Hebert
True Love Poems
"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.
...when I speak to you I speak as though I am offering a rose in your hand.
Sanober Khan
Rose Day Quotes
Together, we share a love so strong, I am so in love with you.
Catherine Pulsifer, New Year Approaches
New Year Love Poems
"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.
Catherine Pulsifer
A Mother's Love Poem

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