Top Rated Romantic Short Love Quotes And Sayings 2023

Not every quote has to be lengthy and cryptic. Love quotes can come in all shapes and sizes, with some being extremely short and even funny or sarcastic. But you don’t want to waste your time on a snippet of text with no meaning, do you?

Here’s a collection of cute, meaningful, and funny love quotes for 2023 that are all under 100 words. Let’s start with some of the short love quotes from the PennBook collection.

Love Is A Magical Thing

Short Romantic Love Quotes

When you’re in love, you can’t help but feel like you’re on top of the world. Every day is a new adventure, and you can’t wait to see what the future holds for you and your partner. Though the journey of love can be long and winding, it’s always worth it in the end.

To keep the flame of love alive, sometimes all you need is a little reminder of how much your partner means to you. That’s where short love quotes come in handy. No matter what life throws your way, these quotes will remind you of the power of love and how it can overcome anything.

Whether you’re looking for a love quote to write in a card or text to your partner, or you just want to browse and get inspired, we’ve got you covered. Check out our collection of short love quotes below.

Love is not a volunteer thing. – Samuel Richardson

Love is friendship on fire. – Susan Sontag

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. – Tom Wolfe

Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones

The love we give away is the only love we keep. – Elbert Hubbard

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are. – Houssaye

Trust your intuition and be guided by love. – Charles Eisenstein

That’s all nonviolence is – organized love. – Joan Baez

We love because it’s the only true adventure. – Nikki Giovanni

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. – William Shakespeare

You call it madness, but I call it love. – Don Byas

We can only learn to love by loving. – Iris Murdoch

A life lived in love will never be dull. – Leo Buscaglia

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. – Victor Hugo

All you need is love. – Paul McCartney

True love stories never have endings. – Richard Bach

Love is shown more in deeds than in words. – Saint Ignatius

Love Quotes For Him

Love quotes for him can often be the perfect way to let your guy know how you feel about him. Sometimes it’s hard to put your feelings into words, but a quote can often say it better than you ever could. Whether you’re looking for something short and sweet, or something a little more deep and meaningful, we’ve got you covered with some of the best love quotes for him.

Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will. – Elaine Davis

Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive. – Unknown

I need you like a heart needs a beat. – Unknown

When I say I love you more, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most. – Unknown

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. – Vladimir Nabokov

I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more. – Angelita Lim

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. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive. – Unknown

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. – John Green

Love Quotes For Her

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing the person you love smile. And if you are lucky enough to be the reason behind that smile, then you have truly won the lottery of life. Love quotes for her are the perfect way to let the special woman in your life know just how much you adore her. Every time she reads one of these quotes, she will be reminded of how much you care and how lucky she is to be loved by you.

Here are some of our favorite love quotes for her:

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. – Brendan Francis

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. – Pablo Neruda

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. – Oscar Wilde

You make me want to be a better man. – Melvin Udall

Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive. – Unknown

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love her and it is the begQinning of everything. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I’ll never love you any less than I do, right this second. – Kami Garcia

I love you. I am at rest with you. I have come home. – Dorothy L. Sayers

Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive. – Inconnu

Love is a two-way street constantly under construction. – Carroll Bryant

If I know what love is, it is because of you. – Hermann Hesse

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

I love you more than I think I should. – Becca Fitzpatrick

I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone. – Lord of The Rings

Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be. – Robert Browning

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Love Yourself Quotes

There is no greater love than the love you have for yourself. It is the foundation of all other loves. When you love yourself, you are able to fully give and receive love from others. It is the most important love of all. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite self-appreciation quotes for you below:

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. – Henry David Thoreau

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world. – Judy Collins

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – Buddha

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. – William QShakespeare

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. – Marilyn Monroe

I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return. – Natalie Cole

I hope you know that every time I tell you to get home safe, stay warm, have a good day, or sleep well what I am really saying is I love you. I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words’ meanings.  – Open-365

The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. – Dalai Lama

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. – Andre Gide

This has been my life; I found it worth living. – Bertrand Russell

We must be our own before we can be another’s. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. – Confucius

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. – Rumi

Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you. – Tom Freston

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. – Vincent van Gogh

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. – Ella Fitzgerald

Short Quotes on Love and Happiness

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. – Mary Stuart

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. – Benjamin Franklin

Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. – Eskimo Proverb

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. – Bertrand Russell

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

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – George Washington Burnap

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Herman Cain

Cute Love Quotes

Love is one of the most amazing things that can happen to a person. It’s a feeling that can’t be described in words, but only felt. When you’re in love, you feel like you’re on top of the world and nothing can bring you down. Love quotes are a great way to express how you feel and show your partner how much you care.

There are endless cute love quotes out there, but we’ve compiled some of the best ones to help you express your feelings.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. – André Breton

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. – Kurt Vonnegut

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. – Elinor Glyn

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person. – James Thurber

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. – Sophocles

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. – William Arthur Ward

If you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that’s just fabulous. — Carrie, Sex and the City

Love me and I may be forced to love you. – William Arthur Ward

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. – Charles Schulz

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

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

Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it. – Nicholas Sparks

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. – Ben Hecht

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 from The Notebook

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

To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed. – Valerie Lombardo

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Sad Love Quotes

Most people have experienced the feeling of sadness that comes with love at some point in their lives. Whether it’s the end of a relationship, unrequited love, or simply missing someone you care for, the pain can be all-consuming. At these times, it can be helpful to read sad love quotes. These quotes can provide comfort and remind us that we are not alone in our feelings.

Sad love quotes can also help us to see the situation in a different light. They can offer a new perspective and help us to find the positive in a negative situation. Sometimes, all we need is a little reminder that things will get better. If you’re feeling down about love, check out these quotes.

Love is not love until love’s vulnerable. – Theodore Roethke

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. – Miguel de Unamuno

There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you. – Ashleigh Brilliant

You can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel. – Johnny Depp

I wonder if I could take back every ‘I love you’ ever said to you, would I do it? ― Faraaz Kazi

You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love. ― Ayushee Ghoshal

Just let me keep the last piece of my heart before you tear it all apart.— Lykke Li

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Kahlil Gibran

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. ― Henny Youngman

You meet everyone twice in this life, when they come and when they go. — C.C Aurel

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. – Leonardo da Vinci

It hurts to leave a light on for nobody. — Graham Foust

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment. – Sarah Dessen

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert A. Heinlein

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. – Anais Nin

He is not a lover who does not love forever. – Euripides

To love is to burn, to be on fire. – Jane Austen

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 Baldwin

In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing. – Jack Kornfield

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. – Bette Davis

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. – C.S. Lewis

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. – Paulo Coelho

Love is so short, forgetting is so long. – Pablo Neruda

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears. – Ovid

Deep Short Love Quotes

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. – Mother Teresa

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. – Anais Nin

In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing. – Jack Kornfield

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. – Rumi

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

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were. – Moliere

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

We accept the love we think we deserve. – Stephen Chbosky

Inspirational Love Quotes

Inspirational love quotes can provide a much-needed boost when you’re feeling down about your relationship. It can be easy to forget why you fell in love with your partner in the first place, but these quotes can remind you of all the reasons why you love them. Sometimes, all it takes is a little reminder to help you see your relationship in a new light.

If you’re feeling lost, confused, or just need a little boost, these inspirational love quotes can help you remember why you’re in love in the first place. No matter what challenges you and your partner are facing, these quotes can help you see the light at the end of the tunnel. Sometimes, all you need is a little reminder of how strong your love is.

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 Stael

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. – George Jean Nathan

Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. – William Arthur Ward

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. – Barbara De Angelis

We need not think alike to love alike. – Francis David

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were. – Moliere

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. – Felix Adler

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu

When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. – Dalai Lama

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth. – William W. Purkey

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age. – Jeanne Moreau

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

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. – Marge Piercy

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. – Barbara De Angelis

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. – Elizabeth Gilbert

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. – Elizabeth Gilbert

Funny Short Quotes on Love

Funny short quotes on love can be found all over the internet and in magazines. They are a great way to show your loved one how much you care about them and to make them laugh. If you are looking for a way to make your loved one smile, then look no further than funny short quotes on love. These quotes are sure to bring a smile to their face and to make them laugh out loud.

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. – Ambrose Bierce

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. – Pearl Bailey

Love is like Heaven, but it can hurt like Hell. – Unknown

It is not love that makes a relationship complicated; it’s the people in it who do. – Unknown

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. – Thomas Dewar

Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there. – George Burns

I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it. – Elizabeth Evans

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. – Plato

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken

Love is sharing your popcorn. – Charles Schultz

Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? – Lily Tomlin

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein

Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important. – Lisa Hoffman

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love. – Robert Fulghum

Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you. – Dolly Parton

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Love means having to say you’re sorry every fifteen minutes. – John Lennon

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. – Ambrose Bierce

Short True Love Quotes

I’m looking for the unexplainable connection and spark – real, true love. – Rachel Lindsay

We all love a bit of ‘true love conquers all.’ – Sarah Pinborough

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love. ― Mandy Hale

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice. – Sadhu Vaswani

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it. – Israel Zangwill

Life is a game and true love is a trophy. – Rufus Wainwright

I do believe in one true love. – Michelle Dockery

True love lasts forever. – Joseph B. Wirthlin

True love bears all, endures all and triumphs! – Dada Vaswani

I’ve been in love. I believe in destiny and true love. – Michael Sorrentino

I’m looking for the unexplainable connection and spark – real, true love. – Rachel Lindsay

I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age. – Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Short Sayings and Love Quotes for Couples

Even though I have seen you a hundred times, I still get butterflies each time I see you.

I will love you until all the stars go out and the tides will no longer turn.

I never would have accomplished what I have today without you in my life.

Every time I would look into your eyes, I know you are the one for me.

I am only happy when I see that you are happy. I guess that’s how I love you.

Thank you for always making me laugh even when I cannot even dare to give a smile.

When I follow my heart, it leads me to you.

You’re the reason why I’m breathing, yet sometimes you just take my breath away.

I have fallen for you because of all those little things you are never aware of.

You’re like the love of my dreams but better. You’re real.

I never planned it, but you are the best thing that has ever happened to me.

Your hand is the only one I ever need to hold.

You’re kinda, sorta, basically, pretty much always on my mind.

I’m addicted to the way I feel when I think of you.

Short Love Captions

If you’re looking for the perfect short love caption for your next Instagram post or Facebook update, look no further. We’ve compiled a list of some of the best short love captions out there. Whether you want something sweet and simple or something a little more deep and meaningful, we’ve got you covered.

Keep calm and give me a kiss

I love you a latte

I told the stars about you

I need you like a heart needs a beat

If kisses were snowflakes, I’d send you a blizzard

Loving you is easy

All of me loves you

Two heads, one heart

You smile, I melt

FAQs About Short Love Quotes

What are some ways to use short love quotes in your own life?

Write them down in a journal or notebookpost them on social mediasend them to your partner via text or email display them in your homeuse them as part of a love letter

What are some of the benefits of using short love quotes?

Some benefits of using short love quotes include expressing your love for someone concisely, sharing a memorable and romantic moment with your partner, and sending a text or email message that will brighten your partner’s day.

Is love a chemical reaction in the brain?

Yes, love is believed to be a chemical reaction in the brain that triggers the release of dopamine, oxytocin, and other neurotransmitters. These chemicals are associated with feelings of happiness, pleasure, and bonding.

Can love be controlled or manipulated?

Love is a complex emotion that is not easily controlled or manipulated. It is an organic feeling that arises from within and is influenced by a range of factors, including personality, experiences, and circumstances.

What are the different types of love?

There are many different types of love, including romantic love, familial love, platonic love, and self-love. Each type of love is unique and has its own set of characteristics and qualities.

What are the benefits of love?

The benefits of love are numerous, including improved physical and mental health, increased happiness, reduced stress, and a sense of purpose and meaning in life. Love can also bring a sense of belonging and security, making us feel connected and valued.

Conclusion

In conclusion, short love quotes can be very beneficial. They can help us to express our feelings and emotions, and can also be used to help us learn about love and relationships. If you are looking for a way to express your love for someone, or to learn more about love and relationships, consider using short love quotes.