Relationship Quotes and Videos

Throughout your life, relationships will come and go. There will be life-changing romances and meaningful friendships that last a lifetime. Of course, there will also be toxic situations, painful breakups, and grief after you fall out of touch with a friend. These relationships teach you more about yourself and about powerful, sometimes elusive, love. Relationship quotes can help you navigate these complex emotions and put into words how much a person means to you, whether you are dating someone new, looking for a sweet love message to celebrate a milestone anniversary, or searching for a way to tell a close friend, “I miss you.”

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No one said relationships are easy. You may feel nervous energy around a new person you have big feelings for. Your relationship may have just become long-distance and you are struggling to find ways to tell your significant other that you are thinking of them. Or maybe you are looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day quote that encapsulates all you and your partner have been through and learned throughout the years (or even decades). That’s where the best relationships quotes come in, to help you say the things you want to say but don’t have the words for, as well as express your love in new and profound ways.

These relationship quotes are words to turn back to when you meet a new flame or are looking for sage advice about love. Let the words of poets, authors, philosophers, and actors help you feel seen, heard, comforted, and, most importantly, less alone.

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” — Jorge Luis Borges
“In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.” — Taylor Swift
“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
“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
“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 smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” — Mother Teresa
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” — Maya Angelou
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” — Albert Einstein
“I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes” — Unknown
“For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” — Rosemonde Gérard
“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
“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
“When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew it.” — Arrigo Boito
“You make me feel like I am everywhere when I am right here, completely still with you.” — Crystal Woods
“Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.” — Deepak Chopra
“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
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” — Vladimir Nabokov
“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

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
“I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.” — Humphrey Bogart
“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë
“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
“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
“True love stories never have endings.” — Richard Bach
“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.” — John Keats
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” — Max Muller
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Love is sharing your popcorn.” — Charles Schultz
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.” — Unknown
“I’m much more me when I’m with you.” — Unknown
“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 are my best friend, my human dairy, and my other half. You mean the world to me and I love you.” — Unknown
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Herman Hesse
“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
“I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you.” — John Legend
“When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you. When I met you I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I am afraid to lose you.” — Unknown
“But I love you I’m totally and completely in love with you and I don’t care if you think it’s too late. I’m telling you anyway.” — Natalie Portman
“I love you. I am at rest with you. I have come home.” — Dorothy L. Sayers
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” — Elaine Davis
“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
“My heart is, and always will be, yours.” — Jane Austen

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“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
“Sexy is the thing I try to get them to see me as after I win them over with my personality.” — Miranda, Sexy and the City
“I miss crawling into a man’s arm, kissing his neck, saying those three little words into his ear, ‘And another thing…’” — Felicia Michaels
“A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.” — Tim Allen
“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.” — Miles Davis
“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” — Lily Tomlin
“Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can call yourself a beginner.” — Jerry Seinfeld
“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.” — Mae West
“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
“You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.” — Melanie Clark
“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
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” — François de la Rochefoucauld
“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
“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” — Erma Bombeck
“An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.” — Agatha Christie