No matter how old your relationship is it can always benefit from some simple words of affirmation. But while feelings come naturally, it’s not always the case for words. If you’re having trouble finding the words to express how you feel to your man, don’t worry—we found them for you.
Here are some of our favorite love quotes for him to let the man in your life know how important he is to you.
1. “My heart is and always will be yours.”–Jane Austen
2. “If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you.”–DeAnna Anderson
3. “The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget about you.”–Nicholas Sparks
4. “I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”–J.R.R. Tolkien
5. “I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, bet`ween the shadow and the soul.”–Pablo Neruda
6. “Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”–A.A. Milne
7. “Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”–Emily Dickinson
8. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
9. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”–Khalil Gibran
10. “All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.”– Julie Andrews
11. “Love is energy of life.”–Robert Browning
12. “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”–James A. Baldwin
13. “Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”–Samuel Johnson
14. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”–Robert Frost
15. “If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.”–Edward G. Bulwer–Lytton
16. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.”–John Lennon
17. “The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.”–Hans Urs von Balthasar
18. “Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.”–Truman Capote
19. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”–Zora Neale Hurston
20. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”–Orson Welles
21. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”–Hubert H. Humphrey
22. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”–William Shakespeare
23. “Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.”–Nick Cannon
24. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”– Mignon McLaughlin
25. “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”–Paulo Coelho
26. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”–Helen Keller
27. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone–we find it with another.”–Thomas Merton
28. “Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.”–Ram Dass
29. “The heart asks, and love answers”–Amelius
30. “True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.”–Sadhu Vaswani
31. “The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.”–Rumi
32. “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”–Tom Robbins
33. “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”–Mother Teresa
34. “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”–Alfred Lord Tennyson
35. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”–Oscar Wilde
36. “Life is a game and true love is a trophy.”–Rufus Wainwright
37. “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” –Ann Landers
38. “If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”–Marc Anthony
39. “Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.”–Ariana Grande
40. “Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”–Samuel Taylor Coleridge
41. “I believe in true love, and I believe in happy endings.”–Christie Brinkley
42. “Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”–Friedrich Nietzsche
43. “No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.”–George Chakiris
44. “:True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.”–Julia Roberts
45. “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.”–Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
46. “Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”–Katharine Lee Bates
47. “True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.”– Torquato Tasso
48. “Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.”–Mortimer Adler
49. “Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”–Rabindranath Tagore
50. “I love you more than my own skin.”–Frida Kahlo
51. “What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.”–Juliette Binoche
52. “True love bears all, endures all and triumphs.”–Dada Vaswani
53. “True love is no game of the faint–hearted and the weak. It is born of strength and understanding.”–Meher Baba
54. “Two things you will never have to chase: true friends & true love.”–Mandy Hale
55. “In love there are two things—bodies and words.”–Joyce Carol Oates
56. “Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.”–Tom Freston
57. “True love that lasts forever yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.”–Zooey Deschanel
58. “Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”–Bertrand Russell
59. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”–Edgar Allan Poe
60. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”–Antoine de Saint–Exupery
61. “We are most alive when we’re in love.”–John Updike
62. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”–Ursula K. Le Guin
63. “Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”–Plato
64. “Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”–John Galsworthy
65. “True love–that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy–is a choice. It’s a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances.”–Mark Manson
66. “True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!”–Dada Vaswani
67. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”–Henry David Thoreau
68. “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”–Lucius Annaeus Seneca
69. “Love cures people–both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”–Karl A. Menninger
70. “Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”–Theodor Adorno
71. “Love is space and time measured by the heart.”–Marcel Proust
72. “If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.”–Lynda Barry
73. “The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”–Tom Robbins
74. “True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.” –Holliday Grainger
75. “The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that’s it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.” –Joan Chen
76. “It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.” –Steve Maraboli
77. “True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.” –Bryant H. McGill
78. “Love is love’s reward.”–John Dryden
79. “Love is metaphysical gravity.”–R. Buckminster Fuller
80. “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”– Marilyn Monroe
81. “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” –Erich Segal
82. “Love is my religion–I could die for it.”– John Keats
83. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mind are the same.” –Emily Brontë
84. “Love is a better teacher than duty.” – Albert Einstein
85. “Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.”– Mortimer Adler
86. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire
87. “Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.” – Truman Capote
88. “Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.” – Tom Wolfe
89. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”–Lao Tzu
90. “Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.”– William Law
91. “Being in love is the only transcendent experience.”–Armistead Maupin
92. “Choose your love, Love your choice.”–Thomas S. Monson
93. “They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.” –Henry Rollins
94. “So you do believe in true love? she whispered. I took a deep breath, I think I have to, I said, blinking back tears. Without it, we’re all going nowhere.” –Juliet Marillier
95. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”–Robert Frost
96. “Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”–Marcus Tullius Cicero
97. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.”–Eva Gabor
98. “There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving–by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”–Aldous Huxley
99. “You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful.”–Joss Stirling
100. “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
101. “Love is but the discovery of ourselves in another, and the delight in the recognition.”– Alexander Smith
102. “I can’t promise you forever, because that’s not long enough.”–Jason Dorsey
103. “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.”–Robert Munsch
