Love speaks in many ways – sometimes in long letters, sometimes in quiet glances, and sometimes in just a few perfect words.
In this collection, we’ve gathered 150 short and sweet love quotes that capture big feelings in small packages.
Think of these quotes as tiny love notes ready to be shared. Whether you’re writing a card, sending a text, or just need the right words to express what’s in your heart, you’ll find something here that fits the moment perfectly.
From sweet morning messages to deep declarations of love, these quotes are short enough to remember but meaningful enough to matter.
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Short and Sweet Love Quotes for Every Moment
“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.” – The Bible (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allen Poe
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Love her but leave her wild.” – Atticus
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” – Saint Ignatius
“Love is a juice with many tastes. Some bitter, others sweet. A wine which has few vineyards.” – Justice, Poetic Justice
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis
“To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.” – Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions
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“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.” – Â Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions
“All’s fair in love and basketball.” – Quincy, Love and Basketball
“I can’t see anything I don’t like about you.” – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
“Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.” – Unknown
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” – Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” – Agatha Christie
“Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë
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