Comedian Jim Gaffigan once said, “Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January.” And he was right. The month of February is pretty much defined by Valentine’s Day, which comes smack dab in the middle of the month and offers something warm and fuzzy to look forward to in the midst of a cold winter. And there’s no one way to celebrate it. Some like being alone. Others cosy up with a best friend. Maybe you’re more of a classic love story type, preferring expensive gifts and fine dining. For others, a night in with a home-cooked meal is enough. However you choose to spend Valentine’s Day, the most important thing is that you express your love for that most important person or people in your life. And if you’re struggling to find the right sentiment, these Valentine’s Day quotes might help inspire you.

Think of them like digital Valentine’s Day cards (if you don’t have time to make one). You don’t have to be hit by Cupid’s arrow to feel the love with these Valentine’s day messages. True love comes in all kinds of strange and unexpected forms.

Say Something Meaningful

Aristotle

1. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle

2. “I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.”
Anonymous

Show Your Sense of Humor

Charles Schultz

3. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt either.”
Charles Schultz

4. “Love is being stupid together.”
Paul Valery

5. “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
Erich Segal

Say It Simply

James Thurber

6. “Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” 
James Thurber

7. “My heart is and always will be yours.”
Anonymous

Be Silly

Pearl Bailey

8. “What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.”
Pearl Bailey

9. “I want a man who’s kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?”
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Get on a Deeper Level

Audre Lorde

10. “Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.”
Audre Lorde

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

Love Is Eternal

12. “Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.”
Vincent van Gogh

13. “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
Haruki Murakami

Show You’re on the Same Page

Antoine de Sainte-Expury

14. “Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

Get Lyrical

16. “And suddenly all the love songs were about you.”
Unknown

17. “It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.”
John Bulwer

Get Philosophical

Voltaire

18. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
Voltaire

19. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
Pablo Picasso

20. “Love is a grave mental disease.”
Plato

21. “The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not.”
Blaise Pascal

22. “Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Be Cheeky

Rita Rudner

23. “I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
Rita Rudner

24. “Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”
Christopher Marlowe

25. “If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”
Lily Tomlin

Celebrate Your Love

Herman Hesse

26. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Hermann Hesse

27. “The real lover is a man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space”.
Marilyn Monroe

28. “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

On Love and Friendship

Ann Landers

29. “Love is friendship that has caught on fire.”
Ann Landers

30. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
Jean de La Fontaine

31. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
Elie Wiesel

Battle of the Sexes

Henry Kissinger

32. “Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.”
Henry Kissinger

33. “Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”
Anna Scott

34. “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

35. “It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
Laurence J. Peter

Show Your Love Makes You a Better Person

Roy Croft

36. “I love you, not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.”
Roy Croft

37. “I’m much more me when I’m with you.”
Anonymous

The Best Thing in Life…

Audrey Hepburn

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

39. “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
Conan Doyle

40. “I know of only one duty, and that is to love”
Albert Camus

Hopefully that lot has wet your appetite for this Valentine’s Day celebrations. For more inspiration on how to show your softer side this year, make sure to get digitally kitted out too. Now you have zero excuses for being ready this February 14!

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