February 14th is the day we celebrate love. Valentine’s Day is usually associated with romantic love, these days it’s not out of the ordinary to give valentines to friends and family members. Love is love, and a day designated for expressing love, therefore, is for everyone!
Cards and flowers are the most traditional Valentine’s Day offerings, but no matter what you give, a message of love on this day is expected. Valentine’s Day card messages don’t always come naturally, and even the best wordsmiths get writer’s block, so we’ve collected some of the best Valentine’s Day card ideas. We’re here to help you find the right words to write in a Valentine’s Day card for a new relationship, a lifelong love, or your best friend.
Classic Valentine’s Day Quotes
“Your words are my food, your breath is my wine. You are everything to me.” – Sarah Bernhardt
“Come sleep with me: We won’t make Love, Love will make us.” ― Julio Cortázar
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” ― E.E. Cummings
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” ― Haruki Murakami
“And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home.” – Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It has made me better loving you… it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them… Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better.” ― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want… a steady hand. A kind soul.” ― Shana Abe
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato
“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” — Harry in When Harry Met Sally
“Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.“ — Inconnu
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met.” — Nick in The Wedding Date
“How do you spell ‘love’?” – Piglet
“You don’t spell it…you feel it.” – Pooh” ― A.A. Milne
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” ― Alfred Tennyson
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” ― Rumi
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” ― Orhan Pamuk, Snow
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” ― Emily Brontë
“Never ever apologize for who you love.” — Crystal Ball
“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” ― James Baldwin
“For ’twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. ‘Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland
“Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.” ― A.A. Milne
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)” ― e.e. Cummings
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.” ― Jorge Luis Borges
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” ― Nicole Krauss
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.“ ― J.R.R. Tolkien
“Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide, but I love you until the end of time.” ― Moulin Rouge
“If I had but an hour of love, if that be all that is given me, an hour of love upon this earth, I would give my love to thee.” – Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
“Love doesn’t know gender.” ― Unknown
“You make me happier than I ever thought I could be and if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.” – Friends
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” ― John Keats
“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
“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Not even in my weakest moment have I considered letting you go.” – Judith McNaught, Whitney, My Love
“I’ve come here with no expectations, only to profess now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours.” — Edward in Sense and Sensibility
“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
“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
“I do know some things. I know I love you. I know you love me.” – George RR Martin, Game of Thrones
Valentine’s Day Quotes About Love
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” ― Joan Crawford
“It is good to 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 well done.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you.” ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” ― Edgar Allen Poe
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” ― Oscar Wilde
“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.” ― Jodi Picoult
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous, that you realize just how much you love them.” — Agatha Christie
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Love is a human experience, not a political statement.” — Chester Minnit
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more.” ― Bob Marley
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” ― Oprah Winfrey
“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
“I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” ― Maya Angelou
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.”― Katharine Hepburn
“If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.” ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
“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
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu
“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star…” ― e.e cummings
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.” — Gloria Steinem
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” ― Zelda Fitzgerald
“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.” — Leo Tolstoy
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it’s beautiful, wonderful, don’t you ever change.” ― Taylor Swift
“One day we won’t have to ‘come out of the closet.’ We’ll just say we are in love and that will be all that matters.” — Horace Cope
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” ― J.D. Salinger
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” ― Maya Angelou
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” ― Rumi
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” ― Tom Robbins
“Romance is the glamor which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” ― Elinor Glyn
“When it’s gone, you’ll know what a gift love was. You’ll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.” ― Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” ― Albert Einstein
“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
“Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.” ― Oscar Wilde
“Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.” ― Hermann Hesse
“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.” ― Milan Kundera
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination.” ― John Keats
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” ― Victor Hugo
“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too” ― Vincent van Gogh
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” ― John Lennon
“Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.” — Torquato Tasso
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.” — Alice Walker
Humorous Valentine’s Day Messages
“In case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.” – Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss
“You see, this is all we need. A couple smokes, a cup of coffee, and a little bit of conversation. You and me and five bucks.” ― Reality Bites
“My dearest friend, if you don’t mind
I’d like to join you by your side
Where we can gaze into the stars
And sit together, now and forever
For it is plain as anyone can see
We’re simply meant to be.” ― The Nightmare Before Christmas
“She is the only evidence of God I have seen with the exception of the mysterious force that removes one sock from the dryer every time I do my laundry.” ― St. Elmo’s Fire
“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
“Yes, I’m drunk. And you’re beautiful. And tomorrow morning, I’ll be sober but you’ll still be beautiful.” – The Dreamers
General Valentine’s Day Card Messages
Tonight is all ours. I can’t wait to celebrate with you.
When we met, I knew I wanted to spend every single Valentine’s Day with you.
You give my heart peace over and over again. I love you so much.
It’s been a journey … one I’d do all over again.
Thanks for being you and for being mine.
You’re my forever love, and I’m so grateful.
Happy Valentine’s Day—you’re my happily-ever-after.
There are so many wonderful reasons I love calling you Valentine.
At the heart of it all, we’re friends. I love that. I love you.
You still make me laugh like crazy. That’s true love.
My heart belongs to you.
Our love story is my favorite.
Especially today, I hope you feel how much I love you and how grateful I am to have you in my life.
Night and day, you’re on my mind.
The good things in life are better with you.
I love the way you love me.
My favorite place to be is with you.
I made a wish, then you came true.
I love you today, tomorrow and all the days after that.
The more time we spend together, the more I love you.
I followed my heart and it led me to you.
Love is sweet and so are you.
I’m so glad your forever is my always.
You’re my best friend, my partner, and my soulmate. I love you, happy Valentine’s Day.
Thanks for being you and being mine.
I would choose you again and again. Happy Valentine’s Day to the person of my dreams.
Through all the seasons and all of time, I love you.
Every love song is about you. Happy Valentine’s Day.
What to Write in a Valentine’s Day Card for New Relationship
You make me feel special every day. I hope I make you feel the same way. Happy Valentine’s Day.
Yay! We’re still dating!
Thanks for reminding me how much fun dating is.
I don’t know what’s next for us, but I’m pretty sure it’ll be fun, and I can’t wait!
We’re having so much fun, and I love this for us.
I am so happy I found you. Can’t wait to have a special Valentine’s Day with you.
I’m so excited to spend our first Valentine’s Day together. I am so grateful to have you in my life.
I am so thrilled to celebrate our relationship today! Happy Valentine’s to the best person I know!
I just want you to know that when I picture myself happy, it’s with you.
If you can’t get somebody off your mind, they are probably supposed to be there.
I only want two things in this world: I want you and I want us.
And suddenly, all the love songs were about you.
I want to tell you how much you mean to me this Valentine’s Day. Because the truth is, I didn’t know love before I met you.
Thanks for not calling me too much.
There is no one else I’d rather lie in bed and look at my phone next to.
I love you, but I also love my cat. It’s complicated.
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Thank you for reminding me what butterflies feel like.
Valentine’s Day Card Messages for Friends
Happy Valentine’s Day, my dear friend who is cuter than a big box of chocolates.
Valentine’s Day is about love, so I’m sending all of mine to you. Thanks for being my best friend.
Wishing you the best Valentine’s Day. Thank you for being there.
Happy Valentine’s Day, my guardian angel.
Here’s a huge hug and a bundle of kisses.
Thank you for taking care of me always.
Out of all people who matter to me, you are the one who gets me completely. Happy Valentine’s Day, BFF!
Hope your Valentine’s Day is full of hugs and kisses. Love you, best friend.
You are the best thing that ever happened to me. I hope we get to wish each other on Valentine’s Day every year.
Valentine’s Day is not only for lovers. It’s for the people who make you fall in love. I love you, my BFF.
To the person who stuck with me through thick and thin. It is difficult to imagine my life without you now. Happy Valentine’s Day, my real soulmate.
When you have a caring friend in your life, everything becomes more meaningful. Thank you for everything and happy Valentine’s Day!
No other person can ever take your place in my life. You are the gem in my life I am blessed to have. Happy Valentine’s Day, my gorgeous friend.
Share the Love on Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day has always been a day for lovers, but times have changed, and the practice of expressing love with Valentine’s Day messages has evolved. In fact, now people celebrate Palentine’s Day, and send Galentine’s Day flowers on February 14. No matter who you’re celebrating with, The Bouqs is here to make sure you’re covered, from the best flowers for Valentine’s Day to Valentine’s Day card messages and even Valentine’s Day date ideas.
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