Short Love Quotes Page 2
More short love quotes to express affection, celebrate relationships, and share encouragement.
Sometimes a few loving words say more than a long message. This second collection of short love quotes offers thoughts about romance, family, friendship, and the kindness we show one another.
Whether you are writing a card or simply want to remind someone they are loved, we hope these quotes give you something meaningful to share.
Updated October 13, 2026, by Catherine Pulsifer.
Romantic Love Quotes
Words about affection, devotion, and the joy of loving someone special.
Forget the deep-ploughed furrows in my brow; forget the silver gleaming in my hair; look only in my eyes! Oh! darling
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Reunited
The gusty wind moaned sad and chill, the autumn sky was gray; but love can warm a longing heart
Arthur Franklin Fuller, My Little Comforter
The love I bore you long ago is loyal to the last.
David V. Bush, Though Jilted, Still I Love
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Yet my home, my home is here, since my love is drawing near.
Wilhelmina Stitch
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
Alexandrea to Nicholas III
I love you today, and tomorrow more so - may the love that we share continue to grow.
Catherine Pulsifer, The Reasons Are Many
This is the way of it, wide world over, one is beloved, and one is the lover, one gives and the other receives.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Way Of It
Thou wast all that to me, love. For which my soul did pine
Edgar Allan Poe, To One In Paradise
...love, that is true love, never fades. Love transcends time and continues to blossom through the years as togetherness meets the hills and valleys of life that unfolds.
Byron Pulsifer
For only when my love was near I felt the sun was shining, love's presence is a foe to fear when hearts are intertwining!
John Imrie, The Tender Passion
I feel that together with our love and commitment, we can find the common ground.
Julie Hebert
Love you today but tomorrow more - life has much for you in-store.
Kate Summers, Wishing You
You'll never know, dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.
Paul Rice, You Are My Sunshine
"If you promise with me, to always remember our glee, I know our love will never wither."
Julie Hebert, Our Love Is Never Ending
Because you loved me, I have known a world I could not find alone
Berton Braley, Loved A Little While
Each day, beloved, I think I love thee more than any day that we have ever known
Unknown
So take the old love tried and true on from the old year to the new.
Unknown, Same Old Love
My heart is light, my step is strong; for love brings back those hours of gold, in summer, when the days are long.
Unknown, Summer Days
In purple and in crimson my thoughts of you should twine, And through them all my love, dear, in purest gold would shine.
Dollie Radford, If All The World
Romance, who loves to nod and sing, with drowsy head and folded wing, among the green leaves as they shake far down within some shadowy lake
Edgar Allan Poe, Romance
Valentines Day is a great day to express your love for that special person in your life regardless of the number of years you have been together.
Catherine Pulsifer
...remember my love can not die, linked to life, a flow'r to its stem
Mary C. Ryan
How do I know if you love me, will you just come out and say so?
Julie Hebert, Do You Love Me
The best is yet to be, our love will set us free. So please take care of me - I want to grow old together with thee.
Julie Hebert, The Best Is Yet To Be
Love is not a final destination: It is an ongoing journey of two hearts.
Donald Neviaser, The Inner View
Let me but love my love without disguise, nor wear a mask of fashion old or new
Henry VanDyke
Love is a key to our heart. It makes our lives complete
J. J. Thorne
Quotes About The Meaning Of Love
Love grows through trust, kindness, and the choices we make each day.
Love is not made of kisses, or of sighs, of clinging hands, or of the sorceries
Poetry from Chambers' Journal
Love is not love until you give it way.
Oscar Hammerstein
When love hurts you, dare to love again.
Steve Maraboli
True love requires great sacrifice for its devotions true
James Henry Thomas, Love's Requisite
If everything else in life should fade away, one attribute must never be allowed to vanish and that attribute is love.
Byron Pulsifer
It is the sweetest message heard: the word that rules the world is Love.
Ardeen Foster, The Word That Rules The World
Let Love our bosoms thrill, empty hearts may have their fill; the poorest may be rich in love, bless'd on earth and crown'd above!
John Imrie, A Souvenir Of Love
Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth of what thou lovest, and ask no returning;
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Give
Love is the centre and circumference; the cause and aim of all things — 'tis the key to joy and sorrow
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If there be but one who believes in you,that love will lift and will bring you through - someone to care.
Douglas Malloch, Someone To Care
Better the love of a gentle heart than beauty's favor proud
George McDonald, Better Things
For some people they do find that right person however, for others their fate may be to stay single. We can give love and receive love without having a partner
Catherine Pulsifer
But what life is to me is most of all, is the love I feel each day.
Julie Hebert, Life To Me
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden
Love can be given without expecting anything in return.
Byron Pulsifer
Life gives back what you give out. If you love others you will get it back without a doubt
Catherine Pulsifer, A Little Loving
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Barbara De Angelis
The greatest joy in life is to love and be loved in return.
Author Unknown
"You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt."
Jon Gordon, Choose the 'Power of Thank You' instead of Stress and Fear
"Allow love to fill you up, so that when fear or doubt arise the love that is in you and of you will gently edge it out."
Cat O'Connor, 30 Days of Inspiration
"Love yourself and always look for the good."
Christopher Michaels, Think Positive
Love For Family And Friends
These sayings celebrate the care we share with family, friends, and others.
Let us all love each other, regardless of riches, chances or features
J. J. Thorne
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.
Shannon L. Alder
Love is the sacred link which binds - hearts joined by friendship firmer still
Unknown, Friendship, Love, And Truth
O cherish those who love you - crave your love - and God will smile a blessing from above.
Arthur Franklin Fuller
Thank God that I have known a soul so true. So nobly just, so worthy to be loved!
Amy Lowell, Venetian Glass
It's special, grandparents and grandchildren.... Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.
Kate Morton
Other people will influence you...and others, may love you so - around them you are never low.
Catherine Pulsifer, Choice Is Yours
Welcome Friends, right gladly so bright the love you bring
John McLeod, Welcome Friends Gladly
A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.
Author Unknown
For friendship's flame, it shall forever abide, a beacon of love, a bond never swayed.
Catherine Pulsifer, Parting Ways
Dogs love us unconditionally, as God intended. If we look carefully, we can learn from them how to make the world a brighter and better place.
Leila Grandemange, Pawz & Pray
Faith, Hope And God’s Love
These quotations remind us of the love we receive and the love we can give.
Not from my heart, life's crystal stream but from the depths of Love.
Henry VanDyke
For God is love, and love is understanding, and faith the key that opens ever door!
John McLeod
Love never can die. Its home is on high
John Imrie
Love, the sinner's pardon. The atonement true; in sin's night of darkness falls like morning dew.
Eloise A. Skimings, Pentecost
With truth and peace, with faith and love, they pledged their life and hand
Caleb Davis Bradlee
There is no love like the love of Jesus, never to fade or fall
W. E. Littlewood, The Heart Of God
Lord make me an instrument of your peace....where there is hatred, let me sow love
St. Francis of Assisi, The Peace Prayer
Unto us, this Child was born - angels sang in the heavens above God showed us what is true love.
Catherine Pulsifer, Give Joy To Others
If only Christmas love would stay with us each and every day - The world would be a better place
Catherine Pulsifer, Christmas Love
Conclusion
Love is often shown in small ways: a kind word, a thoughtful message, or a little time given to someone who matters. We hope these quotes encourage you to share your appreciation with the people in your life.
For more words about love, return to Page 1 of Short Love Quotes .
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