150 Love Quotes for Her That'll Make Your Sweetheart Swoon

There's no quicker path to writer's block than to attempt to find the right words to express your love to your partner. (Our hats are off to those of you writing your own wedding vows!) But that's where these beautiful love quotes for her come in: By taking inspiration from acclaimed poets, authors, songwriters and screenwriters, you'll be able to banish that block and convey how you truly feel.

Sometimes, the challenge isn't just finding the right words—it's choosing the right tone. You want your relationship sayings for her to reflect the depth of your feelings, but you also want good love quotes for her that feel authentic and not forced. No matter if you're crafting a lighthearted, playful note with beautiful lines for her or more profound and sentimental relationship sayings, a great love quote can help you express that you love her.

Whether you're looking for love sayings for her to include in a card for a special occasion, ideas for wedding vows or prose to pen in a love letter, we've got you covered with some of the best "I love you" quotes for her. From the humorous to the sweet to the ultra-romantic, these loving quotes for her are practically guaranteed to melt the heart of the lady you love. (Pro tip: Hide little notes full of beautiful quotes for her to discover beneath her pillow, in her car or packed in her lunch.)

Below, find 100+ love quotes for a wife or girlfriend to help you express your affections—and get ready for your partner to swoon over these romantic sayings for her!

In this article:

• The Best Love Quotes for Her
• "I Love You" Quotes for Her
• Romantic Love Quotes for Her
• Deep Love Quotes for Her
• Cute Love Quotes for Her
• Short Love Quotes for Her
• Sweet Love Quotes for Her
• Sexy Love Quotes for Her
• True Love Quotes for Her
• Soulmate Love Quotes for Her
• Funny Love Quotes for Her

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The Best Love Quotes for Her

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Pass the tissues! The best statements of love for her will probably cause her to shed a tear (or two!), but that's a good thing. Emotions run deep when love is involved, and a heartfelt love quotation for her can spark those raw, beautiful moments you'll both cherish forever. (You could even use these best quotes about love for her as part of a touching reception toast or ceremony vows.)

• "For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." —Rosemonde Gérard
• "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." —André Breton, Mad Love
• "Each time you happen to me all over again." —Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
• "And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home." —Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
• "I want you today, tomorrow, next week and for the rest of my life." —I.A. Dice, The Sound of Salvation
• "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." —Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
• "Our love cannot be measured, it just is." —John Paul Stevens
• "The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." —Henry Miller
• "In case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you." —Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries
• "I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever." —Rabindranath Tagore, "Unending Love"
• "No matter where I went, I always knew my way back to you. You are my compass star." —Diana Peterfreund, For Darkness Shows the Stars
• "You know I'd fall apart without you. I don't know how you do what you do, 'cause everything that don't make sense about me makes sense when I'm with you." —Hunter Hayes, "Wanted"
• "You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful." —Amy Bloom

"I Love You" Quotes for Her

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When you want to be direct, there's no better way than to choose a sweet love quote for her from the heart. Those three little words, found in these emotional love quotes for her, are the perfect way to tell her—without question—that you adore her.

• "Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches." —William Goldman, The Princess Bride
• "I love you right up to the moon—and back." —Sam McBratney, Guess How Much I Love You
• "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, Atonement
• "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." —Pride and Prejudice
• "I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you." —Ben Folds Five, "The Luckiest"
• "I do know some things. I know I love you. I know you love me." —Game of Thrones
• "I said I love you and that's forever, and this I promise from the heart. I could not love you any better. I love you just the way you are." —Billy Joel, "Just the Way You Are"
• "I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little." —Rae Carson, The Crown of Embers
• "So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you." —Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
• "Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide, but I love you until the end of time." —"Come What May," Moulin Rouge
• "Whatever happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I'm happy now…because I love you." —Groundhog Day
• "I love you. I knew it the minute I met you. I'm sorry it took so long for me to catch up. I just got stuck." —Silver Linings Playbook
• "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep." —Pablo Neruda, "Love Sonnett XVII"

Romantic Love Quotes for Her

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If you want to turn on the charm, look no further than a beautiful quote on love for her. These incredibly romantic lines for her are perfect for including in a Valentine's Day card or even having framed as artwork to gift to your partner.

• "I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you." —Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
• "When they ask me what I liked the best, I'll tell them, it was you." —City of Angels
• "Not even in my weakest moment have I considered letting you go." —Judith McNaught, Whitney, My Love
• "If I could ask God one thing, it would be to stop the moon. Stop the moon and make this night and your beauty last forever." —A Knight's Tale
• "If I had but an hour of love, if that be all that is given me, an hour of love upon this earth, I would give my love to thee." —Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
• "I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you." —Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
• "No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever." —Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
• "I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything." —F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a letter to his wife Zelda
• "I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal." —E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
• "I can hear her heartbeat for a thousand miles, and the heavens open every time she smiles." —Van Morrison, "Crazy Love"
• "I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest." —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Deep Love Quotes for Her

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Is her love language words of affirmation? Then a motivational or inspirational love quote may be the way to go. Speak her language and write one of these deep quotes about love for her to let her know just how much you care.

• "I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being." —Hafiz of Shiraz
• "You and I could paint the sky together. As the world goes by, we'll go on forever." —Kaskade, "Eyes"
• "Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return. You are my sun, my moon and all my stars." —E. E. Cummings, "#38"
• "So bright, the flames burned in our hearts, that we found each other in the dark." —City and Colour, "We Found Each Other in the Dark"
• "Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear." —Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
• "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach when feeling out of sight; for the ends of being and ideal grace." —Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Sonnet 43"
• "For 'twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. 'Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul." —Judy Garland, "My Love Is Lost"
• "One day you will ask me which is more important—my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life." —Khalil Gibran
• "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
• "Soul meets soul on lovers' lips." —Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
• "I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." —J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of The Rings
• "The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." —Rumi
• "Love is a quiet, reassuring, relaxing, pottering, pedantic, harmonious hum of a thing; something you can easily forget is there, even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall." —Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

Cute Love Quotes for Her

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Skip the sappy and opt for something cute and fun for your honey. Scribble a sweet note with one of these cute phrases for her before you leave in the morning to totally make her day.

• "For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you." —Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, "Cecilia and the Satellite"
• "You should know how great things were before you. Even so, they're better still today. I can't think of who I was before you ruined everything in the nicest way." —Jonathan Coulton, "You Ruined Everything"
• "You think you're one of millions but you're one in a million to me." —Brad Paisley, "The World"
  
• "But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow." —Gayle Forman, If I Stay
• "It's a miracle, just like the sunshine makes the flower grow. That's just the way you change my whole life show, through the sunshine of your tender love." —Stevie Wonder, "Thank You Love"
• "We are made of particles that existed since the moment the universe began. I like to think those atoms traveled 14 billion years through time and space to create us so that we could be together and make each other whole." —The Big Bang Theory
• "You're the sail of my love boat, you're the captain and crew; You will always be my necessity—I'd be lost without you." —Nat King Cole, "You're the Cream in My Coffee"
• "You see, Lainie, this is all we need. A couple smokes, a cup of coffee and a little bit of conversation. You and me and five bucks." —Reality Bites
• "You're the best thing I never knew I needed. So now it's so clear I need you here always." —Ne-Yo, "Never Knew I Needed"
• "My dearest friend, if you don't mind, I'd like to join you by your side where we can gaze into the stars and sit together, now and forever. For it is plain as anyone can see, we're simply meant to be." —The Nightmare Before Christmas
• "If I had to dream up the perfect woman, she wouldn't even come close to you." ­—Boy Meets World
• "We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." —Dr. Seuss
• "You, you make loving fun. And I don't have to tell you, but you're the only one." —Fleetwood Mac, "You Make Loving Fun"

Short Love Quotes for Her

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Sometimes, a small love quote can have a big meaning. Skip the epic love letter and opt for one of these short and sweet quotes to say to her, which may perfectly capture your feelings in just a few short love sentences.

• "As you wish." —The Princess Bride
• "Love me and the world is mine." —David R. Reed, Jr., "Love Me and the World Is Mine"
• "You pierce my soul." —Jane Austen, Persuasion
• "All of me loves all of you." —John Legend, "All of Me"
• "Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time." —Casablanca
• "To live without loving is not really to live." —Molière
• "For me, the sun rises and sets with her, man." —Heat
• "Come, live in my heart and pay no rent." —Samuel Lover, "Live in My Heart and Pay No Rent"
• "Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you." —The Beatles, "Because"
• "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be." —Robert Browning, "Rabbi Ben Ezra"
• "I need you so much closer." —Death Cab for Cutie, "Transatlanticism"
• "My heart shall be thy garden." —Alice Meynell, "My Heart Shall Be Thy Garden"
• "O tell her, brief is life but love is long." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Princess: O Swallow"
• "Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you." —Walter Winchell
• "I love you and it's getting worse." —Joseph E. Morris
• "Can you even imagine fallin' like I did? For the love of my life, she's got glow on her face, a glorious look in her eyes, my angel of light." —JVKE, "golden hour"
• "The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun." —Charles De Leusse
• "You are all of my today and all of my tomorrows." —Leo Christopher
• "If I know what love is, it is because of you." —Hermann Hesse
• "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."—Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Ernest"
• "Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours." —Ludwig van Beethoven, "Immortal Beloved"
• "You complete me." —Jerry Maguire

Sweet Love Quotes for Her

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If you're looking for adorable love quotes for her to put in a card, text or email, these sweet quotes to make her feel special will do just the trick. (Pro tip: If you choose a cool excerpt from song lyrics, add it to a favorite playlist to cue up during your next date night.)

• "If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me." —Led Zeppelin, "Thank You"
• "He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
• "I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world." —Frank O'Hara, "Having a Coke with You"
• "A magnificence that comes out of your eyes, in your voice, in the way you stand there, in the way you walk. You're lit from within." —The Philadelphia Story
• "My days are brighter; my sky a deeper blue; my nights are sweeter when I'm with you." —George Strait, "Living and Living Well"
• "My night has become a sunny dawn because of you." —Ibn Abbad
• "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul." —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
• "I couldn't crack the love code, dear, 'til you made the lock on my heart explode." —"Happy New Year," Rent
• "For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home." —Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
• "You're a beautiful woman, you deserve a beautiful life. Nothing less." —Water for Elephants
• "Bless your soul, so precious and delicate. Powerfully compassionate, your friendship held me together when the threat of unraveling, had me at the brink feeling inadequate." —Brother Ali, "My Beloved"
• "Will I catch the moon like a bird in a cage? It's for you, I swoon, I'm always in love." —Wilco, "I'm Always in Love"
• "And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while, cause you're amazing, just the way you are." —Bruno Mars, "Just the Way You Are"
• "I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes." —Eric Clapton, "Wonderful Tonight"
• "Have I told you lately that I love you? Have I told you there's no one else above you? You fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do." —Rod Stewart, "Have I Told You Lately"
• "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"
• "I'm in love with you and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things." —John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

Sexy Love Quotes for Her

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Looking to spice things up? Make her blush (in all the right ways) with these sexy love quotes for ladies. Hot tip: Use 'em for the most literary of sexting ideas.

• "You're the only thing on this planet worth worshipping." —Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
• "I can't forget the taste of your mouth. From your lips, all the heavens pour out. I can't forget when we are one. With you alone I am free." —Santana feat. Dave Matthews, "Love of My Life"
• "Only the united beat of sex and the heart can create ecstasy." —Anaïs Nin
• "Beneath the chandelier of stars and atmosphere, tangled like the roots on the ground. The windows opened up, the wind is blowing and we're both not making a sound. It's like I'm melting on into you." —Taylor Swift, "This Is Really Happening"
• "And last night you were in my room and now my bedsheets smell like you. Every day discovering something brand new; I'm in love with your body." —Ed Sheeran, "Shape of You"
• "Something 'bout the way the hair falls in your face; I love the shape you take when crawling towards the pillowcase. You tell me where to go and though I might leave to find it, I'll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it." —John Mayer, "Your Body Is a Wonderland"
• "You know I love it when you're loving me. Sometimes it's better when it's publicly; I'm not ashamed, I don't care who sees us hugging and kissing, our love exhibition." —John Legend, "P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care)"
• "I'll try to talk refined, for fear that you'll find out how I'm imagining you." —Hozier, "Talk"
• "So join me in this bed that I'm in. Push up on me and sweat, darling. So I'm gonna put my time in; I won't stop until the angels sing." —Ed Sheeran, "South of the Border"
• "A touch from your real love, it's like heaven taking the place of something evil and lettin' it burn off from the rush." —Lana Del Rey, "Cherry"

True Love Quotes for Her

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How can you tell if it's true love? It's definitely not an exact science, but we guarantee she'll be true-ly amazed if you write out one of these gorgeous love quotes for a girlfriend or wife in a card, letter or good night text.

• "So I pray everyday more than anything, friends will stay as we begin to lay this foundation for a family. Love ain't simple—why can't it be? Anything worth having you work at annually, granted we've known each other for some time. It don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine." —Common, "The Light"
• "When you meet the right person, you know it. You can't stop thinking about them. They are your best friend and your soulmate. You can't wait to spend the rest of your life with them. No one and nothing else can compare." —How I Met Your Mother
• "Make of our hands one hand. Make of our hearts one heart. Make of our vows one last vow: Only death will part us now." —"One Hand, One Heart," West Side Story
• "With our love, we could save the world, if they only knew." —The Beatles, "Within You Without You"
• "I cannot exist without you... I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again... My Life seems to stop there—I see no further. You have absorb'd me." —John Keats, in a letter to Fanny Brawne
• "The same as I love you, you'll always love me too. This love isn't good unless it's me and you." —Tegan and Sara, "I Know I Know I Know"
• "Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words 'make' and 'stay' become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free." —Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
• "I kiss your vision as it rises before my mind." —Winston Churchill, in a letter to Clementine Churchill
• "I search your profile for a translation. I study the conversation like a map, 'cause I know there is strength in the differences between us. And I know there is comfort where we overlap." —Ani DiFranco, "Overlap"
• "We get old and get used to each other. We think alike. We read each other's minds. We know what the other wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other for granted." —Johnny Cash, in a letter to June Carter
• "This matter, it's something bigger than anything ever graced my heart." —Foo Fighters, "Dear Lover"
• "My blind eyes are desperately waiting for the sight of you." —Richard Burton, in a letter to Elizabeth Taylor
• "She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together." —J.D. Salinger, "A Girl I Knew"
• "But once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met. You still fascinate and inspire me. You influence me for the better. You're the object of my desire, the #1 Earthly reason for my existence. I love you very much." —Johnny Cash, in a letter to June Carter

Soulmate Love Quotes for Her

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Everyone wants to know that they and their partner are in sync. The right love phrases for her can bridge that connection and deepen your bond. Show her your hearts are in harmony with these heartfelt relationship quotes for her that speak straight from the heart.

• "Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart." —Robert Sexton
• "You are the one girl that made me risk everything for a future worth having." —Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
• "You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement." —F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "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, Doctor Zhivago
• "Because of you I can feel myself slowly but surely becoming the me I have always dreamed of being." —Tyler Knott Gregson, "Becoming"
• "You make me happier than I ever thought I could be and if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way." —Friends
• "Your words are my food, your breath is my wine. You are everything to me." —Sarah Bernhardt
• "It's like my life isn't even real to me unless you're there and you're in it and I'm sharing it with you." —Gilmore Girls
• "I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours." —Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
• "I want to tell you with my last breath that I have always loved you. I would rather be a ghost, drifting by your side as a condemned soul, than enter heaven without you. Because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit." —Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• "So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday." —The Notebook
• "It feels good to be the one, that you want when all I want is you." —Jack Johnson, "Never Fade"
• "In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." —Maya Angelou
• "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." —When Harry Met Sally

Funny Love Quotes for Her

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There's nothing better than making the person you love laugh. For a way to say "I love you" with the perfect touch of humor, check out these funny love punchlines for her.

• "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's alright to kiss me anytime you feel like it." —Suzanne Collins,The Hunger Games
• "She is the only evidence of God I have seen with the exception of the mysterious force that removes one sock from the dryer every time I do my laundry." —St. Elmo's Fire
• "Yes, I'm drunk. And you're beautiful. And tomorrow morning, I'll be sober but you'll still be beautiful." —The Dreamers
• "You're so beautiful, you could be a waitress. You're so beautiful, you could be an air hostess in the '60s. You're so beautiful, you could be a part-time model." —Flight of the Conchords, "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)"
• "I never get out my leaf blower when Oprah is on. And when you're telling me about your feelings I try not to yawn. And when we're at parties I don't talk about your spastic bladder. When you're cleaning the gutters on the roof I hold the ladder. And if that isn't love…I don't know what love is." —Weird Al Yankovic, "If That Isn't Love"
• "Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you. The right person is still going to think the sun shines out of your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with." —Juno
• "I love you so much I almost forgot to brood." —Angel
• "When I'm around you, I kind of feel like I'm on drugs. Not that I do drugs. Unless you do drugs, in which case I do them all the time. All of them." —Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• "5, 6, 7, 8; I want you to be my mate. 1, 2, 3, 4; You're the one that I adore." —But I'm a Cheerleader
• "Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties." —Jules Renard

Contributions by Kathleen McCann, Diane Hall and Shyla Watson