On Valentine’s Day, it can be difficult to find conversation hearts that convey how you truly feel. Flowers and chocolate make excellent Valentine’s Day gifts. But for the ultimate display of affection, select the perfect card and inscribe it with a heartfelt (read: handwritten) quote. If you need inspiration, here are 15 of our favorite romantic quotes:
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.” —Robert Browning
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” ― Alfred Tennyson
“Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.” —Samuel Butler
“Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.” —Zelda Fitzgerald
“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.” —Percy Bysshe Shelley
“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.” —Luciano De Crescenzo
“Who, being loved, is poor?” —Oscar Wilde
“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss
“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ” —Ernest H. Shephard
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” —Emily Brontë
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” —Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabell Lee
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” —Leo Tolstoy
“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