The 50 Best Romantic Sayings and Messages for Him and Her

Trying to capture the love that you have for your partner through words is a seemingly impossible task. How do you wrap up the dozens of thoughts and emotions and your countless shared experiences in a few sentences? Yet, whether you’re brainstorming your marriage proposal, jotting down your wedding vows, or writing an anniversary card, you’ll need to use rhetoric to communicate your message and mark milestones in your relationship. Luckily, literary geniuses have attempted to encapsulate these feelings of love and affection through books, poems, movies, television shows, and songs—and their words can serve as a source of inspiration to guide your own proclamations. 

While these romantic sayings from various media are best suited to inform your proposal, vows, or handwritten cards, you can also incorporate them into your wedding décor. Displaying a famous literary quote on your welcome sign, ceremony programs, cocktail napkins, or photo backdrop through intricate calligraphy will infuse old-world elegance into your big-day aesthetic.

From classic literature to modern films, here are 50 romantic sayings for him and her to inspire your own declarations. 

Romantic Sayings from Books

Whether it's an insight that the author writes themself or a proclamation from a character they've created, here are some of the best romantic sayings from books.

• “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, Eat Pray Love
• “I want him to know what it clearly seems to me: that if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.” — Amy Hempel, The Most Girl Part of You
• “Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
• “I’m not a religious person, but I do sometimes think that God made you for me.” — Sally Rooney, Normal People
• “It’s not like in the movies. It’s better because it’s real.” ― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
• “It was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.” ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
  
• “I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void and that oblivion is inevitable and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.” — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
  
• “If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.” — Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
  
• “Love makes a place in your life. It makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it’s gone, nothing is whole again.” ― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage
• “The love I felt for her ... had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons—it was systemic and it was complete.” — Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
  
• “But really, it’s because you lift my heart. You make me insanely happy to be alive, so I don’t know what happens after this ... but that’s why you need to know. I’m fucking out-of-my-mind crazy about you.” — Stephen Markley, Ohio
• “Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.” — David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
  
• “When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are to become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness. It is not excitement. It is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No … don’t blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away.” ― Louis de Bernières, Corelli's Mandolin
  
• “I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
  
• “Never say love is ‘like’ anything. It isn’t.” ― author Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
  
• “Love is like the wind: You can't see it, but you can feel it.” — Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
• “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
• “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
  

Romantic Sayings from Poems

For a melodic message filled with symbolism, rhythmic prose, and raw emotion, seek inspiration from the below poems.

• “I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers. We have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips more scar tissue than skin. Our love came unannounced in the middle of the night. Our love came when we’d given up on asking love to come. I think that has to be part of its miracle.” — Clementine von Radics, “Mouthful of Forever”
• “I love you without knowing how or when or from where. I love you directly without problems or pride: I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love, except in this form in which I am not nor are you, so close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my dreams.” — Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: "XVII" (excerpt)
• “You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” — E.E. Cummings
• “Love starts as a feeling, but to continue is a choice. And I find myself choosing you more and more every day.” — Justin Wetch, Bending the Universe
• “Tell me of something fiercer than the love with which I gaze upon you, of something softer than the tenderness with which I hold you.” — Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
• “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnet 43”
• “The days are cold, the nights are long, but my love for you stays strong. I hold you in my heart and have you on my mind. I’ll wait for you; however long. My love for you is blind. You are my lover and my friend. You are my everything. I shall remain here, waiting, even for eternity.” — Diana J. Briones, “I Will Wait for You Forever”

Romantic Sayings from Movies and TV Shows

Your favorite romantic-comedy or romantic-drama probably has its fair share of romantic sayings to pull from. Here are some of our favorites from movies and TV shows.

• “I wasn’t sure this day would ever come, but you were. I wasn’t sure love could survive everything we put it through, but you were. You were always strong and always sure. And now I know I want you to stand beside me for the rest of my life. That’s what I’m sure of.” — Topanga Lawrence, Boy Meets World
• “If you’re looking for the word, that means caring for someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want no matter how much it destroys you—it’s love. And when you love someone, you just don’t stop—ever. Even when people roll their eyes or call you crazy. Even then. Especially then. You just don’t give up because if I could give up, that wouldn't be love. … That would be some other disposable thing that is not worth fighting for.” — Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother
  
• “It’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” — Noah Calhoun, The Notebook
  
• “I love you and I like you.” — Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation 
  
• “To meet a beautiful woman is one thing, but to meet your best friend in the most beautiful of women is something entirely apart.” — Simon Basset, Bridgerton
• “I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.” — Seth, City of Angels
  
• “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” — Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
• “I will never stop trying because when you find the one, you never give up.” — Cal Weaver, Crazy Stupid Love
• “I wasn’t expecting you. I didn’t think that we would end up together. The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you. I’ve never been seen so completely, loved so passionately, and protected so fiercely.” — Beth Pearson, This Is Us
• “It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together, and I knew it.” — Sam Baldwin, Sleepless in Seattle
  
• “I hope it’s OK if I love you forever.” — Ally Maine, A Star Is Born 
• “I like you very much, just as you are.” — Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones’s Diary
• “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 Burns, When Harry Met Sally

Romantic Sayings from Songs

From current pop hits to nostalgic country ballads, lyrics from love songs contain plenty of romantic sayings that describe any relationship. Read on for a few ideas from singers and song writers.

• “I will be the one to kiss you at night. I will love you until the end of time.” — Beyoncé, “End of Time”
• “I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you’re in the world.” — Elton John, “Your Song”
• You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.” — Taylor Swift, “Mine”
• “I bless the day I found you. I wanna stay around you. Now and forever, let it be me.” — The Everly Brothers, “Let It Be Me”
• “I’m stuck on you; I’ve got this feeling down deep in my soul that I just can’t lose.” — Lionel Richie, “Stuck on You”
• “Take my hand, take my whole life, too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.” — Elvis Presley, “Can’t Help Falling in Love”
• “I am in love all over every time I look at you.” — Tim McGraw, “My Best Friend”
• “You’re still the one I run to, the one that I belong to. You’re still the one I want for life.” — Shane Twain, “You’re Still the One”
• “I’ve known it from the moment that we met—no doubt in my mind where you belong.” — Adele, “May You Feel My Love”
• “Music to my heart, that’s what you are—a song that goes on and on.” — Selena Gomez, “Love You Like a Love Song”
• “You never need to doubt it. I’ll make you so sure about it.” — The Beach Boys, “God Only Knows”
• “Take me to your heart, for it’s there that I belong.” — Elvis Presley, “Love Me Tender”