Yahoo Lifestyle 150 Cute Relationship Quotes That'll Get You in Your Feelings
Whether you’re hot off the heels of a new relationship or on the ride of a lifetime with your forever partner — otherwise known as marriage — these relationship quotes will remind you and your significant other of the beautiful love you share. Written by renowned poets, celebrities, and philosophers, these quotes about love will send you straight into your feels, reflecting on moments big, small, and still yet to come in your relationship.
These sweet quotes are perfect for writing inside a card for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, their birthday, or Christmas. Really any time is a good time to express your love and affection. These quotes can act as inspiration when writing your own unique love message, or they can do the talking for you. I mean, who better to encapsulate the ups and downs of a relationship than the greats: Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, and Maya Angelou, among others?
So share these warm words with your other half to remind them why they’re so special to you. For more relationship quotes, make sure to check out our collection of Valentine’s Day quotes, “I Miss You” quotes, and love quotes from the Bible.
Relationship Quotes for Him
“My heart is, and always will be, yours." — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
"Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you." —Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries
"And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you, and I'd choose you." — Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." — A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
“Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again. Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am whole again." — The Cure, "Lovesong"
“A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me but never at me; to cry with me but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.” — Leo F. Buscaglia
“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” — Hermann Hesse
“It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.” — Roy L. Pickering Jr
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
"For you see, each day, I love you more; today more than yesterday, and less than tomorrow." — Rosemonde Gérard
"I want you to know that I'm not like the women in your past. I see the real you, and I wake up every day excited to know more about you." — Barrie Davenport
"You make me feel like I am everywhere when I am right here, completely still with you." — Crystal Woods
"Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will." — Elaine Davis
"I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then." — Cassandra Clare
"You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all other loves irrelevant." — Rupi Kaur
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Cute Relationship Quotes
“Maybe you don’t need the whole world to love you. Maybe, you just need one person.” — Kermit the Frog
“I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.” — Humphrey Bogart
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard — they must be felt with the heart." — Helen Keller
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." — Plato
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." — Zelda Fitzgerald
"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." — George Sand
"Sometimes, the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more." — Angelita Lim
"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car but because they sing a song only you can hear." — 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
"A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." — Ingrid Bergman
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." — Khalil Gibran
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." — Oscar Wilde
"Love is a friendship set to music." — Joseph Campbell
Healthy Relationship Quotes
“We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.” — Joyce Meyer
“One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before going to bed.” — Bernard Baruch
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me.“ — Beyoncé
"Fall in love with someone who makes you glad to be different." — Sue Zhao
"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." — Bryant H. McGill
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not." — Jodi Picoult
“In a relationship, each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.” — Taylor Swift
“When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.” — Solange
"I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.”— Audre Lorde
"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage." — Martin Luther
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — Carl Gustav Jung
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
“Love is the absence of judgment.” — The 14th Dalai Lama
“I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.” — Shirley MacLaine
New Relationship Quotes
“The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone, and you fall in love, and that’s that.” — Woody Allen
“I just need you and some sunsets.” — Atticus
"Once I knew you, I never wanted to know anyone else." — Leo Christopher
"I love you. I am at rest with you. I have come home." — Dorothy L. Sayers
“We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it, and nurture it.” — John Lennon
“The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We’re still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.” — Halle Berry
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”— Maya Angelou
"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes. I am out of control, and at times, hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." — Marilyn Monroe
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." — Henry David Thoreau
"In the end, there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to." — Robert Brault
"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." — Mother Teresa
"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." — Harry Burns
"Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." — Andrew Breton
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in." — Morrie Schwartz
"Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself." — Deepak Chopra
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Relationship Quotes for Her
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever." — Alfred Tennyson
"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on." — Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
"You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known — and even that is an understatement." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Not even in my weakest moment have I considered letting you go." — Judith McNaught, Whitney, My Love
"You are all of my today and all of my tomorrows." — Leo Christopher
"You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." — Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
"I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering." — Nicole Krauss
"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." — Max Muller
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." — Herman Hesse
"I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you and only you." — John Legend
"It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." — Vladimir Nabokov
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning, a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature, and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." — Bruce Lee
"When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew it." — Arrigo Boito
"I still haven't figured out how to sit across from you and not be madly in love with everything you do." — William C. Hannan
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Strong Relationship Quotes
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." — Maya Angelou
“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and, by the art of commitment, become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” — Criss Jami
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn
“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” — Walter Winchell
“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get, you’ve got to make yourself.” — Alice Walker
“A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.” — Kenny Loggins
"We loved with a love that was more than love." — Edgar Allen Poe
“You can talk with someone for years, every day, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart; you feel like you have known the person for forever.” — C. JoyBell C.
“Love that stammers, that stutters is apt to be the love that loves best.” — Gabriela Mistral
"I love you without knowing how or when or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep, your eyes close." — Pablo Neruda
“We cannot really love anyone with whom we never laugh.” — Agnes Repplier
“Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.” — Lauryn Hill
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." — Lao Tzu
"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret." — Henny Youngman
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Sad Relationship Quotes
"There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart." — Mahatma Gandhi
"I know that I love being able to give my love out to someone. I know there is somebody great out there for me." — Jennifer Love Hewitt
“Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.” — Aman Jassal, Rainbow - The Shades of Love
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle; love is a war; love is a growing up.” — James Baldwin
"It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: Love is eternal." — E.M. Forster
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours; if they don't, they never were." — Richard Bach
"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness." — Julia Roberts
"I carry your heart with me. (I carry it in my heart.)" — E.E. Cummings
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much and forgetting that you are special too.” — Ernest Hemingway
“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.” — Audre Lorde
"Perhaps, we are in this world to search for love, find it, and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends, we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars." — Isabel Allende
“You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.” — Nina Simone
"The only thing we never get enough of is love, and the only thing we never give enough of is love." — Henry Miller
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Meaningful Relationship Quotes
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” — Washington Irving
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." — James Baldwin
“Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same.” — Flavia Weedn
“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn’t. It continues and is ever-changing.” — Jandy Nelson, I’ll Give You the Sun
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor its coming with all my heart.” — Alice Walker
“You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day, and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you.” — Bob Marley
“Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine in yourself so that you can hear it in others.”— Marian Wright Edelman
“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” — Oprah Winfrey
"People should fall in love with their eyes closed." — Andy Warhol
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return." — Natalie Cole
"The giving of love is an education in itself." — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Truth is: Everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” — Bob Marley
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." — Victor Hugo
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Funny Relationship Quotes
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet service to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell
“I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner
“hot is the thing I try to get them to see me as after I win them over with my personality.” — Miranda, Sex and the City
“The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that, perhaps, they’re too old to do it.” — Shirley MacLaine
“Love is a lot like a backache: It doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.” — George Burns
“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.” — Steven Martin
“Love is like an hourglass with the heart filling up as the brain empties.” — Jules Renard
“Love is a two-way street, constantly under construction.” — Carroll Bryant
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” — Joan Crawford
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” — Erich Segal
“It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.” — Lucille Ball
“Marriage is like vitamins: We supplement each other’s minimum daily requirements.” — Kathy Mohnke
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles M. Schulz
“I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.” — Mindy Kaling
“Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.” — Judith Viorst
“A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime, that doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.” — Cher
“If she happens to fall, I’ll be there to laugh at first and then help her up afterwards.” — J.A. Redmerski
“Love is sharing your popcorn.” — Charles Schultz
“An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” — Agatha Christie
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Long-Distance Relationship Quotes
“Ocean separates lands, not souls.” ― Munia Khan
“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it has merely shown me that when together, we cast a single shadow on the wall.” — Doug Fetherling
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” ― François Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“Distance means so little when someone means so much.” ― Tom McNeal
"I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." — J.R.R. Tolkien
"True love stories never have endings." — Richard Bach
“I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are, or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.” — Julia Roberts
“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” — Hugh Mackay
“It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.” — Anthony Storr
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." — A.A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh
"Absence sharpens love; presence strengthens it." — Thomas Fuller
"If love cannot stand the test of time, then it has failed the test of love." — Bernard Byer
"Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough." — Meghan Daum
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