Some feelings are hard to say out loud. That is what emotional love quotes are for — a few honest words that say what you feel, whether you are writing a message to someone you love, getting through a sad day, or reminding yourself that you matter too.
Below you will find 100 emotional quotes on love, grouped so you can find the right one fast: deep love quotes, short messages, quotes for sad days and heartbreak, friendship, and messages for him and her. Pick one, add a line of your own, and send it.
Top 10 Most Emotional Love Quotes
- “Come live in my heart and pay no rent.” – Samuel Lover
- “I love you and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” – E.E. Cummings
- “I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home.” – Dorothy L. Sayers
- “Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Till I loved I never lived.” – Emily Dickinson
- “I love you right up to the moon—and back.” – Sam McBratney
- “You are my heart, my life, my entire existence.” – Julie Kagawa
- “My heart is perfect because you are in it.”
- “I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” – Pablo Neruda
Most Emotional Love Quotes You Should Say to Your Lover
- They say a picture tells 1,000 words, but when I see yours, all I see is three: I love you.
- I fall short of words to tell you how much you mean to me. All I can say is that my life revolves around you, and nothing else matters.
- Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar: but never doubt I love. – William Shakespeare
- Scarlett, you need kissing badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how. – Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
- 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
- We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. – Ernest Hemingway
- You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught. – Boris Pasternak
- I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one; My reason for life. – Ian McEwan
Short Emotional Love Quotes for Quick Messages
- “I still fall in love with you every day!”
- “It doesn’t matter where I am. I’m yours.” – Sherry Thomas
- “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” – Rumi
- “You are nothing short of my everything.”
- “My six-word love story: I can’t imagine life without you.”
- “Where there is love, there is no darkness.” – Proverb
- “I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” – Ben Folds
- “You are, and always have been, my dream.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” – Haruki Murakami
- “Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
Best Emotional Quotes to Inspire When You Are Feeling Sad
- You will never be truly happy if you continuously hold onto the things that make you sad.
- When you are happy, you enjoy the music. But, when you are sad, you understand the lyrics.
- And if today all you did was hold yourself together, I’m proud of you.
- Sometimes, life will kick you around, but sooner or later, you realize you’re not just a survivor. You’re a warrior, and you’re stronger than anything life throws your way. – Brooke Davis
- Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!
- Be thankful for what you have: you’ll end up having more, if you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey
- Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with a real heart to make beauty out of stuff that makes us weep. – Clive Barker
- There are many things you aren’t going to be able to control in your lifetime; the only thing you can control is your reactions. That’s where the trouble starts, a lot of people aren’t in control of themselves.
- You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. – Jonathan Safran Foer
- You say you’re depressed – all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human. – David Mitchell
Emotional Quotes About Life
- Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less. – Steve Goodier
- When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They’re sent to promote, increase, and strengthen you.
- Someday you’ll realize that every time you were being rejected from something good, you were just being pointed toward something better.
- Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. – Earl Nightingale
- Life is a circle of happiness, sadness, hard times, and good times. If you are going through hard times, have faith that good times are on the way.
- Be strong now, because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever.
- You have permission to rest, you are not responsible for fixing everything that is broken. You do not have to try and make everyone happy. For now, take the time for you. It’s time to replenish. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Right in the difficult, we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are. – Rainer Maria Rilke
- Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life. – J.K. Rowling
Emotional Friendship Quotes
- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another. “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself…” – C.S. Lewis
- Nowhere is a wonderful place, especially when you’re beside your best friend.
- There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not in my nature. – Jane Austen
- A friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness; that is a friend who cares. – Henri J.M. Nouwen
- I don’t want you in my life, I need you in my life. You’re not my friend, you’re my best friend. I don’t like you, I love you! And I am glad I found you because I was absolutely lost without you.
- I laugh the harder with you. I feel more myself with you. I trust you with me – the real me. When something goes wrong, or right, or I hear a funny joke, or I see something bizarre, you’re the first person I want to talk to about it. – Samantha Young
- Friends pick us up when we fall down, and if they can’t pick us up, they lie down and listen for a while.
Emotional Quotes to Help You Forget the Pain of the Past
- Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one. – Naval Ravikant
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius
- Without pain, without sacrifice, you would have nothing.
- Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you. – Shannon L. Alder
- In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
- You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. – Charles Kettering
- Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. – Daphne Rose Kingma
- When it hurts to move on, just remember the pain you felt hanging on.
- The lingering thoughts of the past are there to make you weak, and you alone can stop this from ruining your whole existence by letting go and releasing the pain.
Deep Emotional Quotes That Will Make You Cry
- So we ignore each other and pretend the other person doesn’t exist, but deep down, we both know it wasn’t supposed to end like this.
- I’m proud of my heart, it’s been played, stabbed, cheated, burned, and broken, but somehow still works.
- I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant. – Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
- It hurts when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.
- They just ask you how you are? You told them you are fine, but you are not.
- Ask me why I keep on loving you when it’s clear that you don’t feel the same way for me; the problem is that as much as I can’t force you to love me, I can’t force myself to stop loving you.
- What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who makes you cry.
Unrequited Love and Breakup Quotes
- “The one who’s in love always wins. It doesn’t matter if you get your heart broken; you’re living. When you’re feeling, you’re alive.” – Ethan Hawke
- “Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” – Pablo Neruda
- Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care, because they don’t.
- I guess what they say is true. Friends come and go. But I never thought that would apply to you.
- The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
- To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself. – Jocelyn Soriano
- Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your own worth.
- Let’s hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it. – Mansi Soni
- You’ve got a broken heart. Not a broken life. You’ve got a broken dream, not a broken future.
- Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.
- A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along. – J.S.B. Morse
- “The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
Emotional Love Quotes for Him
- “You are all of my today and all of my tomorrows.” – Leo Christopher
- “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
- “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
- “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft
- “True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.” – Nicholas Sparks
Emotional Love Quotes for Her
- “Just thinking about you puts a smile on my face.”
- “I want to grow old with you.”
- “You are the most beautiful person, both inside and out.”
- “You’re my true love and my soulmate.”
- “Your smile takes my breath away.”
- “You are the only one in my heart, now and forever.”
Emotional Love Quotes from Movies
- “Here’s looking at you, kid.” – Casablanca
- “You complete me.” – Jerry Maguire
- “You jump, I jump, right?” – Titanic
- “To me, you are perfect.” – Love Actually
- “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul.” – The Notebook
Love is not only the happy days. It is the hard conversations, the apologies, the distance, and the choice to stay kind through all of it. If one of these quotes said what you could not, save it and share it with someone who needs to hear it today. For shorter lines to send as a text, see our short love quotes, and for more on love and reflection, read our Rumi quotes.
Frequently Asked Questions About Emotional Quotes on Love
What are emotional love quotes?
Short lines that put deep feelings about love into words — the joy, the longing, the sadness and the comfort. People use them in messages, cards, captions and letters when their own words fall short.
How do I use an emotional love quote in a message?
Pick one that sounds like you, then add a personal line — a memory, an inside joke, or simply why you thought of them. A quote with one honest sentence of your own means far more than a quote alone.
What is a good short emotional love quote?
“I still fall in love with you every day!” is short, warm and easy to send as a text. You will find more short ones in the quick messages section above.
What should I say when love is not returned?
Be honest and kind, to them and to yourself. The unrequited love quotes above can help you name the feeling — and the breakup quotes can help you start letting go.
What are the best emotional love quotes from movies?
Lines like “Here’s looking at you, kid” from Casablanca and “You complete me” from Jerry Maguire — you will find five of the best-known ones in the movie quotes section above.
