125 Relationship Quotes for When Love Leaves You Tongue-Tied
Whether you've been together for what seems like forever or you're simply smitten after a few dates, relationships—and the feelings that come with them—can be tricky to put into words. If you need some help expressing yourself (and who doesn't from time to time?), we recommend turning to love and relationship quotes to help get you started.
Here, we've gathered nice relationship quotes from movies, TV, books, celebrities, love experts and more. If you and your partner are always cracking each other up, consider one of our favorite funny relationship quotes to make them smile. Struggle with your words and want to keep it simple? We've got short quotes for relationships. Looking for cute relationship quotes to caption all those adorbs couple photos with on Insta? Don't worry, we have those too. And of course, sweet relationship quotes (and plenty more) are also on the docket.
All that to say, if all that kissing has left you tongue-tied, the quotes about relationships below will have you saying what you feel.
In this article:
- Best Relationship Quotes
- New Relationship Quotes
- Deep Relationship Quotes
- Strong Relationship Quotes
- Cute Relationship Quotes
- Funny Relationship Quotes
- Inspirational Relationship Quotes
- Relationship Goals Quotes
- Long-Term Relationship Quotes
- Long-Distance Relationship Quotes
- Healthy Relationship Quotes
- Short Relationship Quotes
- Real Relationship Quotes
Best Relationship Quotes
Like you and your honey, these ultra-romantic phrases are simply the best. Whether you're penning a love letter or your wedding vows, consider the best love relationship quotations below.
- "To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous." —Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed
- "I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you." —Everything Everywhere All At Once
- "I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone." —J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
- "Nothing is safer than the sound of you reading aloud to me—the perfect date." —Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
- "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." —David Viscott
- "I exist in two places: Here and where you are." —Margaret Atwood
- "Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time." —Maya Angelou
- "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
- "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." —Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
New Relationship Quotes
Are your insides all aflutter? Are you counting down the seconds until you'll see them next? Then these new relationship sayings are bound to put those butterflies into hyperdrive.
- "Without warning, as a whirlwind swoops on an oak, love shakes my heart." ―Sappho
- "The right one does not stand in your way. They make space for you to step forward." —Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
- "I came here tonight because 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
- "You were worth the wait, and I don't just mean tonight." —Friends
- "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." —Plato
- "If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away." —John Steinbeck, in a letter to his son Thom
- "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." —Juno
- "I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything." —F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a letter to his wife Zelda
- "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." — Andrew Breton, Mad Love
- "I feel safe when you're holding me near. Love the way that you conquer your fear. You know hearts don't break around here." —Ed Sheeran, "Hearts Don't Break Around Here"
- "No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, compromise, and give something up to gain something greater." —Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Deep Relationship Quotes
Dig deep, maybe get a little philosophical and open up to your love via these relationship quotes that get deep.
- "There is no remedy for love but to love more." —Henry David Thoreau
- "Who, being loved, is poor?" —Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
- "In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free." —Maya Angelou, "Touched by an Angel"
- "Love is the only gold." – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket
- "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
- "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, "Love Is Like a Friendship Caught on Fire"
- "'If you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you,' I said, and then I kissed her and tasted the lemon juice on her lips." —Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- "If you wished to be loved, love." —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- "The love we give away is the only love we keep." —Elbert Hubbard
- "In the end, there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to." —Robert Brault
Strong Relationship Quotes
Being in love and sharing your life with another takes strength and commitment. (But the sense of camaraderie that comes with a long-lasting relationship? Worth it.) These are some of the strongest relationship quotes about love that's forever and always.
- "Time, wondrous time, gave me the blues and then purple-pink skies… And isn't it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me?" —Taylor Swift, "invisible string"
- "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, A Room with a View
- "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
- "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not." —Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
- "Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone." —Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
- "Don't read the last page. But I stay when you're lost, and I'm scared, and you're turning away. I want your midnights. But I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Year's Day." —Taylor Swift, "New Year's Day"
- "Don't promise me fair sky above. Don't promise me kind road below. Just walk beside me, love, any way the wind blows." —Hadestown, "Promises"
Cute Relationship Quotes
Want some adorable relationship quotes that are even sweeter than you and your love? These cute relationship sayings are sure to give you a sugar rush.
- "When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable." —Jess C. Scott, The Intern
- "Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going." —Practical Magic
- "You are my greatest adventure." —The Incredibles
- "It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them." —Agatha Christie
- "But for now let me say, without hope or agenda, to me, you are perfect." —Love Actually
- "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
- "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- "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." —You've Got Mail
- "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." —Zora Neale Hurston
- "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." —Mignon McLaughlin
- "I want to be with you. It's as simple and as complicated as that." —Charles Bukowski
- "Lonely days of uncertainty, they disappear when you're near me, when you're around my life's worthwhile, and now I long to see you smile." —Big Star, "My Life is Right"
- "Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic." —Frida Kahlo
Funny Relationship Quotes
If humor is what connects your hearts, these are the funniest relationship quotes to keep that humorous spark alive in your committed relationship.
- "But the thing is this, after a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh." —Sex and the City
- "I want to hear that you guys watch every episode of The Bachelorette together in secret shame, or that one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad and if either watches it without the other, they're dead meat. I want to see you guys high-five each other like teammates on a recreational softball team you both do for fun." ―Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
- "A lot of people told me I was crazy to wait this long for a date with a girl I work with but I think, even then, I knew that… I was waiting for my wife." —The Office
- "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's alright to kiss me anytime you feel like it." —The Hunger Games
- "Honestly, if you're not willing to sound stupid, you don't deserve to be in love." —A Lot Like Love
- "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
- "It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes." —Lucille Ball
- "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." —Albert Einstein
- "If you're ever with a girl that's too good for you, marry her." —Valentine's Day
- "We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." —Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved
- "A relationship where you can be weird together is your best choice." —Paulo Coelho
Inspirational Relationship Quotes
These inspirational quotes about relationships prove love has no boundaries and can carry you through if you just open your heart.
- "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard. They must be felt with the heart." —Helen Keller
- "There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You'd think the dreamers would find the dreamers and the realists would find the realists. But more often than not, the opposite is true. You see, the dreamers need the realists to keep them from soaring too close to the sun. And the realists? Well, without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground." —Modern Family
- "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." —Maya Angelou
- "When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity." ―Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." —Zelda Fitzgerald
- "Don't ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it." —Toni Morrison, Jazz
- "For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." —Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Relationship Goals Quotes
Whether your personal relationship goals are Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, Westley and Buttercup or your very own 'rents, these relationship motivational quotes will describe that kind of aspirational love to a tee.
- "A soulmate is someone who you carry with you forever. It's the one person who knew you and accepted you and believed in you before anyone else did or when no one else would." —Dawson's Creek
- "Since the invention of the kiss, there have been only five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind." —The Princess Bride
- "We loved with a love that was more than love." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee"
- "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." —Dr. Seuss
- "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
- "It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be." —Michelle Yeoh
- "You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever." —Love & Other Drugs
- "Maybe you don't need the whole world to love you. Maybe you just need one person." —Kermit the Frog
- "Wherever she is, that's where my home is." —Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Long-Term Relationship Quotes
There's no smile quite as big as the one you wear when you're in love, and these great relationship quotes capture the feeling behind that hundred-watt smile.
- "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." —Victor Hugo
- "Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world." ―Orhan Pamuk, Snow
- "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." —George Sand
- "There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort." ―Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." —Marcel Proust
- "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow." —Swedish Proverb
- "It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life." ―Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- "They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." ―Tom Bodett
- "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" —George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "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 History of Love
Long-Distance Relationship Quotes
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder—hard agree. These long-distance loyalty quotes for relationships prove that even when you're worlds apart, you can still hold the other person's heart in yours. For love communication quotes about time and distance, look no further.
- "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." —A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
- "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." —Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants
- "We were together even when we were apart." —Shannon A. Thompson, Death Before Daylight
- "I will return. I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame." —Atonement
- "Where there is love there is life." —Mahatma Gandhi
- "It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment." —Gabriel Garcia Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- "The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." —Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
- "It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true." —Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- "But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby." —Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
Healthy Relationship Quotes
Keeping a relationship healthy takes work—but oh boy, is it worth it! Looking for a bit of motivation? Take in the healthy relationship advice quotes below that emphasize the importance of a relationship.
- "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get; only with what you are expecting to give, which is everything." —Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
- "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. But you want someone who'll help you catch the bus." —Oprah Winfrey
- "People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'You're safe with me,' that's intimacy." —Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- "Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person." —Gloria Steinem
- "Trust is the glue of life. It is the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships." —Stephen R. Covey
- "Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long." —Amy Grant
- "Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." —Oscar Wilde
- "Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved." —William Paul Young
- "The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness." —Neale Donald Walsch
- "We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence." —Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
Short Relationship Quotes
Interesting relationship quotes don't have to be long to be meaningful. Sometimes good quotes about a happy relationship can be brief and witty and still pack a punch. Check out these short and positive relationship quotes below.
- "We're better together and stronger together." —Courtney B. Vance
- "Love is being stupid together." —Paul Valéry
- "Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you." —Walter Winchell
- "Familiar acts are beautiful through love." —Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
- "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." —Audrey Hepburn
- "You can't blame gravity for falling in love." —Albert Einstein
- "You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." —E.E. Cummings, "#38"
- "You have bewitched me, body and soul." —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- "If I know what love is, it is because of you." —Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
- "I look at you, and I'm home." —Finding Nemo
Real Relationship Quotes
Have you ever wondered what your favorite stars think about the value of a deep relationship? These nice quotes on relationships and understanding from celebrity couples prove that not even the stars can escape Cupid's arrow.
- "I knew he would always be my best friend for my whole life. That was the biggest thing to me. I'd never known anything like the friendship that I had with him. I could like him as much as I loved him." —Blake Lively
- "The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself." —Diane Von Furstenberg, Diane: A Signature Life
- "Meeting John really changed my life. When I feel the support that I have from him, I feel invincible. There's someone behind you on your good days, and someone in front of you on your bad days." —Emily Blunt
- "When you're lucky enough to meet your one person, then life takes a turn for the best. It can't get better than that." —John Krasinski
- "If you were going to list the 100 most popular things that I have done as president, being married to Michelle Obama is number one." —Barack Obama
- "When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster." —Taylor Swift, Billboard
- "True love is singing karaoke 'Under Pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part." —Mindy Kaling
- "I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me." —Freddie Prinze Jr.
Contributions by Carrie Anton and Shyla Watson