One of the most romantic days of the year, the Valentine’s Day is here and it is celebrated on February 14 every year. Named in memory of Saint Valentine, who helped couples get married against the emperor’s orders, the Valentine’s Day is a celebration of love
in different forms. Initially, Valentine’s Day was celebrated only by couples but over the years, this special day also honours and celebrates love for close friends and family.
As we celebrate Valentine’s Day today, here we list +30 best wishes, quotes and romantic sayings for everyone you love:
Valentine’s Day wishes
1. Thank you for being such an important part of my life. Happy Valentine’s Day, my love!
2. I love you to the Moon and back. Happy Valentine’s Day!
3. Happy Valentine’s Day, my dear! Thank you for being my forever Valentine!
4. I’m so grateful to have you as my friend. Happy Valentine’s Day!
5. You are the best thing that ever happened to me. Happy Valentine’s Day!
6. True love is does not discriminate against someone’s colour, caste, or creed– and our bond reflects this. Happy Valentine’s Day!
7. Will you be my Valentine, today and forever? Happy Valentine’s Day 2025!
Valentine’s Day
Quotes on different forms of love
1. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
2. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Teachings of the Buddha
3. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” — A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Anna Quindlen
4. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
5. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things which give value to survival.” — The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis
6. “You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”- Rabindranath Tagore
7. “Love loves to love love.” James Joyce
8. “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
9. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” — Zora Neale Hurston
10. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
Romantic love quotes from literature
1. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
2. “You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” — Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
3. “I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” — The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
4. “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
5. “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — The White Company, Arthur Conan Doyle
6. “Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest, and feels the strongest.” — The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. But I love you, and I will love you until I die.” — The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
8. “She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant.” — Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
9. “Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”- Rabindranath Tagore
10. “Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.”
– Sonnet 116
11. 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.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.- ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese 43’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
12. When you love you should not say,
“God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am
in the heart of God.”
And think not you can direct the course
of love, for love, if it finds you worthy,
directs your course.- ‘On Love’ by Kahlil Ghibran
13. “You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.” William Faulkner
14. “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.” Roald Dahl, The Witches
15. “I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.” Alice Walker