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154 Relationship Quotes to Reignite Your Love

Let these inspirational quotes about love guide you to bliss with your significant other.

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Even if you and your significant other are in a great place, sending them a sweet remark is the perfect way to remind them just how special they are to you. Sometimes a romantic relationship quote is all it takes to reignite that spark. So, whether you're looking to rekindle a flame or keep the fire burning bright, consider sharing these relationship quotes with your sweetheart.

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Cute Relationship Quotes

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  1. "Let's, let's stay together."
  2. "Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need."
  3. "True love stories never have endings."
  4. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
  5. "You are my best friend, my human dairy, and my other half. You mean the world to me and I love you."
  6. "I would rather share one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone."
  7. "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
  8. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."
  9. "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
  10. "Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
  11. "Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
  12. "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
  13. "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
  14. "Who, being loved, is poor?"
  15. "Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it or else we're lost and love is dead, and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do."
  16. "A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
  17. "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
  18. "Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together."
  19. "Love alone can rekindle life."
  20. "Love is a game that two can play and both can win."
  21. "To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship."
  22. "Love doesn't make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
  23. "To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with."
  24. "Souls tend to go back to who feels like home."
  25. "I love her, and it is the beginning of everything."
  26. "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever."
  27. "I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home."
  28. "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
  29. "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness."
  30. "It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

Al Green, from "Let's Stay Together"

Margaret Mead

Richard Bach

Aristotle

—Anonymous

J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Fellowship of the Ring

Audrey Hepburn

Helen Keller

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Karl Menninger

Benjamin Franklin

Morrie Schwartz, from Tuesdays with Morrie

Plato

Oscar Wilde

—Ted (Josh Radnor), from How I Met Your Mother

Charles Dickens

Friedrich Nietzsche

—Anonymous

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Eva Gabor

Doménico Cieri Estrada

Franklin P. Jones

Mark Twain

N.R. Hart

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Alfred Tennyson

Dorothy L. Sayers

Albert Einstein

—Paul (George Peppard), from Breakfast at Tiffany's

William Makepeace Thackeray, from Vanity Fair

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Inspirational Relationship Quotes About Love

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  1. "It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."
  2. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
  3. "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
  4. "We humans definitely need other people to keep us human."
  5. "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
  6. "The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it."
  7. "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love."
  8. "Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life."
  9. "Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."
  10. "Maybe you don't need the whole world to love you. Maybe you just need one person."
  11. "A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
  12. "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
  13. "If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
  14. "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
  15. "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
  16. "True love is your soul's recognition of its counterpart in another."
  17. "Nobody has ever measured—not even poets—how much love the human heart can hold."
  18. "The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence."
  19. "The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love."
  20. "Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star."
  21. "For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."
  22. "Deep in your wounds are seeds, waiting to grow beautiful flowers."
  23. "Love is like the wind. You can't see it, but you can feel it."
  24. "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make…"
  25. "We are asleep until we fall in love."

Jane Austen, from Sense & Sensibility

—Christian (Ewan McGregor), from Moulin Rouge

Erich Fromm

Terry Pratchett, from The Shepherd's Crown

Anaïs Nin

—Nicholas Sparks, from At First Sight

Sophocles

Richard Bach

Bob Marley

—Kermit the Frog

Yoko Ono

Marcel Proust

—David (Hugh Grant), from Love Actually

William Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night's Dream

George Sand

—John (Owen Wilson), from Wedding Crashers

Zelda Fitzgerald

Samuel Johnson

Henry Miller

e.e. cummings

Stephanie Perkins, from Anna and the French Kiss

Niti Majethia

—Nicholas Sparks, from A Walk to Remember

The Beatles, from "The End"

Leo Tolstoy, from War and Peace

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Quotes About Healthy Relationships

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  1. "A true relationship is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other."
  2. “It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.”
  3. "Only when your love for someone exceeds your need for them do you have a shot at a genuine relationship together."
  4. "Relationships, marriages are ruined where one person continues to learn, develop and grow and the other person stands still."
  5. "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."
  6. "Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.
  7. "Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding."
  8. "Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships."
  9. "Assumptions are the termites of relationships."
  10. "You're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings."
  11. "Love is a two-way street constantly under construction."
  12. "Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence."
  13. "Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary."
  14. "Happily ever after is not a fairy tale—it's a choice."
  15. "We cannot be sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."
  16. "Don't try to be something to everyone. Be everything to someone."
  17. "Never love something so much that you can't let go of it."
  18. "Relationships end too soon because people stop putting in the same effort to keep you, as they did to win you."
  19. "We love the things we love for what they are."
  20. "Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person."
  21. "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."
  22. "To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."
  23. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

—Anonymous

Anthony Storr

Neil Strauss

Catherine Pulsifer

Leo F. Buscaglia

Patrick Rothfuss, from The Wise Man's Fear

Diane Arbus

—Unknown

Henry Winkler

—Kathleen (Meg Ryan), from You've Got Mail

Carroll Bryant

Vincent van Gogh

Oscar Wilde

Fawn Weaver

Alan Watts

—Anonymous

Ginni Rometty

—Anonymous

Robert Frost

Gloria Steinem

Halle Berry

Elizabeth Gilbert, from Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables

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Strong Relationship Quotes

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  1. "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
  2. "Love starts as a feeling, but to continue is a choice. And I find myself choosing you, more and more every day."
  3. "The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands."
  4. "There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage."
  5. "We're often afraid of being vulnerable, but vulnerability creates genuine connection."
  6. "We are most alive when we're in love."
  7. "In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine."
  8. "The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence."
  9. "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate."
  10. "You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
  11. "A successful relationship requires falling in love multiple times, but always with the same person."
  12. "Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation."
  13. "Trust in a relationship is very crucial. Without trust, a relationship cannot last as a healthy and happy bond."
  14. "Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat."
  15. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
  16. "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."
  17. "When you cultivate quality relationships, not only do you feel better and help your friends feel better, but you contribute to an increase of joy, love, and peace in the world."
  18. "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."
  19. "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
  20. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
  21. "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."
  22. "True love is not a hide-and-seek game; in true love, both lovers seek each other."
  23. "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
  24. "In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find someone who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you."
  25. “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”

Mignon McLaughlin

Justin Wetch

Alexandra Penney

Martin Luther

Gabby Bernstein

John Updike

Maya Angelou

Edward Thomas

Albert Schweitzer

Sam Keen

—Unknown

Oscar Wilde

Alana Johnson

Joanne Woodward

Lao-Tzu

—Harry (Billy Crystal), from When Harry Met Sally

Tara Bianca

—Swedish Proverb

Dr. Seuss

Walter Winchell

Oscar Wilde

Michael Bassey Johnson

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

—Mac (J.K. Simmons), from Juno

Epicurus

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Quotes About New Relationships

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  1. “I still haven’t figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do.”
  2. "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
  3. "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."
  4. “I know of no greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, without end.”
  5. “I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”
  6. “Me? I’m scared of everything. I’m scared of what I saw, I’m scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.”
  7. "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."
  8. “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
  9. “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
  10. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
  11. “Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.”
  12. “You make me feel like I am everywhere when I am right here, completely still with you.”
  13. “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.”
  14. “When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew it.”
  15. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
  16. “For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.”

William C. Hannan

Carl Jung

Bruce Lee

Franz Kafka

Hafez

—Baby (Jennifer Grey), from Dirty Dancing

Nicole Krauss

Erich Segal

Thomas Merton

—Maya Angelou

Lauryn Hill

Crystal Woods

Barrie Davenport

Arrigo Boito

Emily Brontë

Rosemonde Gérard

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Funny Quotes About Relationships

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  1. “I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
  2. "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
  3. "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one."
  4. "An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her."
  5. "I am yours. No refunds.”
  6. "Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet service to see who they really are."
  7. “Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”
  8. “You can’t put a price tag on love. But if you could, I’d wait for it to go on sale.”
  9. "Love is sharing your popcorn."
  10. “Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.”
  11. "Marry a good woman and be happy the rest of your life. Or marry a bad, and become a good philosopher."
  12. “If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.”
  13. “I promise to always be by your side. Or under you. Or on top.”
  14. “Every day I fall in love with you more and more. Except yesterday, yesterday you were pretty annoying.”
  15. "Spend a few minutes a day really listening to your spouse. No matter how stupid his problems sound to you."
  16. "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
  17. "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
  18. "I love you more than coffee, but please don't make me prove it."

Rita Rudner

Rod Stewart

Fran Lebowitz

Agatha Christie

Anita Bathe

Will Ferrell

Jules Renard

Hussein Nishah

Charles M. Schulz

—George Burns

—Socrates

Miles Davis

Joe King

—Unknown

Megan Mullally

Charles M. Schulz

Ambrose Bierce

Elizabeth Evans

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Long Distance Relationship Quotes

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  1. "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time."
  2. You may be out of my sight, but you’re all I see.”
  3. “One day the plane ticket will be one way.”
  4. “That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”
  5. “Distance means so little, when someone means so much.”
  6. “I want to be with you. It’s as simple and as complicated as that.”
  7. “I exist in two places. Here, and where you are.”
  8. “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
  9. “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
  10. “How strange to dream of you even when I am wide awake.”
  11. “If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.”
  12. “If distance were measured in terms of the heart we’d never be more than a minute apart.”
  13. “May the moon kiss you to sleep until I can.”
  14. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
  15. “I don’t cry because we’ve been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.”
  16. “Distance between two people is inconsequential when their souls are united.”
  17. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

A.A. Milne, from Winnie-the-Pooh

Ahmad Shawqi

—Unknown

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Tom McNeal

Charles Bukowski

Margaret Atwood

Tennessee Williams

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

David Jones

Ranata Suzuki

—Unknown

—Unknown

—Maya Angelou

Donna Lynn Hope

Matshona Dhliwayo

—Charles Dickens

Wrapping Up

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