March 13, 2024

Romantic Affection Quotes

Here are some of our favorite romantic affection quotes.

“I didn’t fall in love with you… I flew.” — Colleen Hoover, “Ugly Love”

“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby”

“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true.” — Daniel Wallace

“You have pierced my soul, I’m half agony half hope. I’ve loved none but you.” — Jane Austen

“I’m done. I don’t need anything more out of life. I have you, and that’s enough.” — Alessandra Torre

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you.” — DeAnna Anderson

“It’s true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” — A. A. Milne

“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.” ― Nicholas Sparks

“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

“Thank you my love, for gracing my life with your lovely presence; for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.” — Richard Matheson

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” — Jane Austen

“If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.” — Michelle Hodkin

“I’ve never known before what it feels like to want someone — not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.” — John Green

Deep affection quotes for him/her

You’ll love these deep affection quotes for him/her.

“My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding.” — Christina White

“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” — John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars”

“But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.” — Maria V. Snyder

“You are that one breath, that puts all the remaining breaths back into my body.” — Sanober Khan

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

“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

“In my element, I need you. At my best, I crave you. With all my soul I respect you. With every breath I take, I love you.” — Toni Payne

“Even before we met and long after we’re both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I’m forever and ever in love with you.” — Crystal Wood

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea. My love as deep; the more I give to thee. The more I have, for both are infinite.” — William Shakespeare

“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

“Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change color, you cannot help treasuring them.” — Munia Khan

“You are my love story, and I write you into everything I do, everything I see, everything I touch and everything I dream, you are the words that fill my pages.” — A.R Asher

“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.” — Frances “Baby” Houseman, “Dirty Dancing”

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.” — Nicholas Sparks, “The Notebook”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” — Pablo Neruda

Sweet affection quotes for couples

We love these sweet affection quotes for couples.

“Your hand touching mine. This is how galaxies collide.” ― Sanober Khan

“I love you, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You’re in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel.” — L.M. Montgomery

“When I saw you, I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.” — Arrigo Boito

“True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

“There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.” — Leo Christopher

“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights”

“Being with you never felt wrong. It’s the one thing I did right. You’re the one thing I did right.” — Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

“There are not enough days in forever to allow me to fully express the depth of my love for you.” — Steve Maraboli

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss

“Because of you, I can feel myself slowly, but surely, becoming the me I have always dreamed of being.” — Tyler Knott Gregson

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.” — Marilyn Monroe

“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

Passionate affection quotes

These passionate affection quotes will surely warm your heart.

“When I give I give myself.” — Walt Whitman

“For you I have saved poems under my skin.” — Sanober Khan

“To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.” ― W.H. Auden

“When they ask me what I liked the best, I’ll tell them, it was you.” — Dr. Maggie Rice, “City Of Angels”

“You think you’re one of millions but you’re one in a million to me.” — Brad Paisley

“I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — The Alchemist

“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.” — Sade Andria Zabala

“If my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.” — Cassandra Clare

“And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” — Mother Teresa

“Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones

“Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away.” — Will Smith, “Hitch”

“I want to be in love with you the same way I am in love with the moon with the light shining out of its soul.” — Sanober Khan

“Everything changes, but my love for you never will. I’ve loved you since I met you and I will love you for all of eternity.” — Angela Corbett

“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’ve been with each other all along.” — Rumi

Heartfelt affection quotes for loved ones

Check out these heartfelt affection quotes for loved ones.

“I know no other reason to love you than to love you.” — Fernando Pessoa

“My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.” — Boris Kodjoe

“You are one of those people who meet when life decides to give you a gift.” — Charles Dickens

“If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.” — Samuel Beckett

“Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide, but I love you until the end of time.” — Moulin Rouge

“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” — Leo Christopher

“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”

“Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.” — Erica Jong

“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”

“Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.” — P.C. Cast

“I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.” — Richard Bach

“I cannot imagine a life in your absence. You are like the breath of air that I need to live, the drop of water in a thirsty desert. I need you like a bird needs the skies to go higher.” — Constantine Jake

“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”

“I wasn’t expecting you. I didn’t think that we would end up together. The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you. I’ve never been seen so completely, loved so passionately and protected so fiercely.” — Beth Pearson

“If I could have just one wish, I would wish to wake up every day to the sound of your breath on my neck, the warmth of your lips on my cheek, the touch of your fingers on my skin, and the feel of your heart beating with mine… Knowing that I could never find that feeling with anyone other than you.” — Courtney Kuchta

Unconditional affection quotes

These unconditional affection quotes are inspiring.

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” — Oscar Wilde

“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” — Elaine Davis

“In a world full of temporary things you are a perpetual feeling.” — Sanober Khan

“Infinity is forever, and that is what you are to me, you are my forever.” — Sandi Lynn

“Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” — Rosemonde Gerard

“To love is not to look at one another, it is to look, together, in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“My love for you will always be like a mountain stream. Quiet. Persistent. Continuous.” — Sanober Khan

“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” — T. Tolis

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou

“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”

“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”

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.” — Cecelia Ahern, “P.S. I Love You”

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” — Noah Calhoun

“I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.” — Juliette Drouet

“Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’” — Ashton Kutcher

Long-Distance Affection Quotes

You’ll love these long distance relationship quotes.

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” — Henry Winkler

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” — Thomas Fuller

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart.)” — E.E. Cummings

“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” — Walter Winchell

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” — Charles Dickens

“It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” — Gabriel Garcia Márquez, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying good by so hard.” — A.A. Milne, “Winnie The Pooh”

“I will return. I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame.” — Atonement

“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.” — Lemony Snicket

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” — Washington Irving

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin

“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.” — Richard Bach

“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” — Julia Roberts

“It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.” — Anthony Storr

“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” — Hugh Mackay

“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

“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

“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”

“It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.” — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

“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

“Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It’s for those who are willing to spending a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It’s for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don’t see it nearly enough.” — Meghan Daum

Long-distance affectionate messages

Don’t skip this collection of long distance love messages for boyfriend.

“Everywhere I go, I picture you being there with me.”

“Everything about you makes me fall in love over and over again.”

“You may not be with me, but you are always in my thoughts and dreams.”

“Distance is just a test of how far love can travel. Our love knows no limits.”

“Our love is stronger than all the miles, borders, and obstacles in the world.”

“Just had to let you know… loving you is the best thing that happened to me.”

“Distance may be tough, but our love is tougher. Together, we can conquer any distance.”

“No matter where we are, my love for you remains unwavering. Distance can’t break us.”

“Distance may separate us, but love keeps us connected. Can’t wait to be in your arms again.”

“Every day spent apart only strengthens my love for you. Distance can’t dim the flame in my heart.”

“No matter the miles between us, my heart always finds its way back to you. I love you across the distance.”

“As long as you’re in my heart and I am in yours, there is no distance great enough that our love can’t travel.”

“Even oceans apart, you’re always on my mind and in my heart. I love you more than words can express.”

“I can’t even put into words how much you mean to me, and each day I hope that I will open the door to your face.”

“You may be thousands of miles away from me, but my heart is always with you. You are everything that I need. I love you a lot.”

“Falling in love with you was the easiest thing on earth and being apart from you is the hardest thing I have ever done in my life.”

“Though we may be physically apart, our love transcends all boundaries. I’m counting down the moments until we’re together again.”

“You’re so easy to be with and so hard to be without. Always missing you. Hope these days come to an end. Hope and pray to be together. Love you.”

“My love, thanks for always being with me even when we are miles apart. It makes me happy knowing that I will get to meet you very soon.”

“I know beautiful days are waiting for us ahead, so this wait is all worth it to me. Soon we will be together. Eagerly waiting for you to come, my love.”

“Hearing your voice is far better than you touching me. Because even though I yearn for your skin to touch mine, it is your voice that touches my soul.”

“Distance may keep us apart and that’s true, but know that I am always here for you. You are always in my heart and I take you with me wherever I go.”

“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.”

“No matter how many years pass, how much distance exists between us, wherever we are in the world — even if the universe itself tries to keep us separated — I will always find my way to you.”

“No matter how far you manage to go, distance will never be able to erase those beautiful memories which I keep in my heart. There is so much goodness that we shared together. Love you!”

“Though I may not see you as much as I would love to, I may not have you in my arms as often as I would want, but deep in my heart I know for a fact, you are the only one for me and I will not let you go.”

Affection quotes for missing someone far away

Don’t forget to check these affection quotes for missing someone far away.

“When two souls are one, they hear each other, even in silence.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.” ― Jorge Luis Borges

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” ― Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” — Khalil Gibran

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” ― Helen Keller

“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

“She is the one in my heart and I’m zero without her when the world tries to divide her from me that’s where our love becomes infinite.” ― Nanruth Nanda

“Love is that orbit of the restless soul, whose circle grazes the confines of space, bounding within the limits of its race, utmost extremes.” ― George Henry Boker

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” ― François Duc de la Rochefoucauld, “Maxims”

“If you truly love someone, then the only thing you want for them is to be happy, even if its not with you.” — Lauren Conrad

“I don’t know what they’re called, the spaces between the seconds, but I think of you always in those intervals.” — Salvador Plascencia

“I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.” — Franz Kafka

“I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can’t see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.” — Jack Llawayllyn

“I miss your voice because it is a symphony; your scent because it is a treasure; your smile because it is a jewel; your hug because it is a masterpiece; and your kiss because it is a miracle.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

“Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists… When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.” — Edmond de Goncourt

Quotes on maintaining affection from afar

These quotes on maintaining affection from afar are definitely worth checking! 

“I exist in two places, here and where you are.” — Margaret Atwood

“Love is space and time measured by the heart.” ― Marcel Proust

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Distance unites missing beats of two hearts in love.” ― Munia Khan

“Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.” — Truman Capote

“I will look for you in every lifetime and love you there.” — Kamand Kojouri

“Distance means so little, when someone means so much.” ― Tom McNeal

“Sometimes I feel like we’re a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.” — Kiera Cass

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” — A.A. Milne

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” ― Nicholas Sparks

“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” — Stephanie Perkins

“No matter where I went, I always knew my way back to you. You are my compass star.” — Diana Peterfreund

“I can hear her heartbeat for a thousand miles, and the heavens open every time she smiles.” — Van Morrison, “Crazy Love”

“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” — Madame de Staël

“I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star.” — Emery Allen

As we wrap up our time with affection quotes and heartfelt expressions of love and care, remember to keep spreading love and care. Let these little reminders brighten your days and make your relationships even sweeter. Cheers to love and warmth at every step of our journey!