150 Meaningful Relationship Quotes That’ll Give You All the Feels

Navigating relationships can be a rollercoaster of emotions—full of joyous highs and challenging lows. Quotes help us make sense of these experiences, providing insights and wisdom from those who have journeyed before us. Here, we’ve compiled a list of 100 insightful relationship quotes.

1. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
2. “We are most alive when we’re in love.” – John Updike
3. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
4. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
5. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Jung
6. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
7. “Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Elizabeth Browning
8. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
9. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
10. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
11. “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” – Blaise Pascal
12. “In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – Paul McCartney
13. “Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
14. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor
15. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
16. “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
17. “We love the things we love for what they are.” – Robert Frost
18. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
19. “Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other.” – Felix Adler
20. “Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” – James Thurber
21. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
22. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
23. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
24. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.” – Moulin Rouge
25. “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” – T. Tolis
26. “Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.” – Jeanne Moreau
27. “The love we give away is the only love we keep.” – Elbert Hubbard
28. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
29. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
30. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
31. “The first duty of love is to listen.” – Paul Tillich
32. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
33. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
34. “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis
35. “I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.” – Alice Walker
36. “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Mencken
37. “We are most alive when we are in love.” – John Updike
38. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
39. “The best proof of love is trust.” – Joyce Brothers
40. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin
41. “Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” – John Lennon
42. “Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
43. “Love is a better teacher than duty.” – Albert Einstein
44. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” – Andre Breton
45. “Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” – Maya Angelou
46. “Love is the beauty of the soul.” – Saint Augustine
47. “Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” – Rabindranath Tagore
48. “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” – David Wilkerson
49. “Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.” – Thomas Merton
50. “Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.” – Teilhard de Chardin
51. “Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count.” – Michelle St. Amand
52. “To love is to burn, to be on fire.” – Jane Austen
53. “Love is the poetry of the senses.” – Honoré de Balzac
54. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost
55. “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” – Ben Hecht
56. “Love is the flower; you’ve got to let it grow.” – John Lennon
57. “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.” – Madame de Stael
58. “In love, one and one are one.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
59. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire
60. “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
61. “Love is the expansion of two natures in such a way that each includes the other.” – Felix Adler
62. “Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.” – Theodor Adorno
63. “Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” – Iris Murdoch
64. “Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” – H. L. Mencken
65. “Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.” – W. Somerset Maugham
66. “Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.” – Moliere
67. “Love is the crowning grace of humanity.” – Petrarch
68. “Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” – Iris Murdoch
69. “Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
70. “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.” – e.e. cummings
71. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov
72. “Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.” – Mignon McLaughlin
73. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” – Rumi
74. “Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.” – Samuel Johnson
75. “Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.” – James Thurber
76. “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” – Ben Hecht
77. “Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis
78. “Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.” – Tom Wolfe
79. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
80. “Love is the only gold.” – Lord Alfred Tennyson
81. “Love is a friendship that has caught fire.” – Ann Landers
82. “Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.” – Gloria Gaither
83. “Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.” – George Jean Nathan
84. “Love is energy of life.” – Robert Browning
85. “Love is eternity, so itself shall never die.” – William Shakespeare
86. “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time, all memories of a beginning, and all fear of an end.” – Madame de Staël
87. “Love is the expansion of the heart, the enrichment of self.” – William Law
88. “Love is a friendship set to music.” – E. Joseph Cossman
89. “Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis
90. “Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire
91. “Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.” – Marianne Williamson
92. “Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It’s free.” – Taraji P. Henson
93. “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
94. “Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving.” – Ann Landers
95. “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time, effaces all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” –
96. “Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
97. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
98. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton
99. “Love is not about possession, it’s all about appreciation.” – Chinese Proverb
100. “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” – Mother Teresa

Final Verdict

These relationship quotes give us a glimpse into the complex world of emotions and interactions that make up our relationships. They remind us to cherish our loved ones, to embrace the highs and lows, and above all, to never stop expressing our love and affection. Whether you’re in a fulfilling partnership, seeking love, or cherishing the love within friendships and family, these quotes offer wisdom and perspective to guide your journey.