60+ Inspiring Relationship Quotes

No two relationships are the same. That’s why our list of relationship quotes covers all sorts of different bonds. Read on to find the words that speak to you. Audrey Hepburn wasn’t kidding when she said, “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

In recent years, many of us have been forced to be apart from the people we love.

And the pressures on our relationships have been real.

It’s hard not to have a new appreciation for the people that matter to us and what it means to connect.

That’s where these relationship quotes come in.

Finding wisdom in the words of others is one vital way to pay attention to the connections we have with those we care deeply about.

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What is the best relationship quote?

Well, that all depends on the relationship.

Luckily, great minds of the past and present have given us so many pearls to choose from.

We’re going to explore a range of different relationship quotes that cover all chapters and types of love stories.

So whether you’ve only just met, are figuring out how to overcome challenges, or have been together for a long time, we’ve got you covered.

(And, spoiler alert, we’ve also thrown in some humorous relationship quotes to get you giggling — because there are very few things better than laughing with those we love.)

Let’s dive in.

New relationship quotes

1. “I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.” — Alice Walker
2. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” — Maya Angelou
3. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — Carl Gustav Jung
4. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” — Criss Jami
5. “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” — Bob Marley
6. "Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends, we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars." — Isabel Allende
7. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” — Washington Irving

Long-distance relationship quotes

8. "In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you." — Virginia Woolf
9. "But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it." — Calla Quinn
10. "In true love, the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged." — Hans Nouwens
11. "Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated." — Alphonse de Lamartine
12. "I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly." — Franz Kafka
13. "We only part to meet again." — John Gay
14. "And they can’t understand, what hurts more — missing the other person, or pretending not to." — Khadija Rupa
15. "It’s hard when you miss people. But you know if you miss them, that means you’re lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing." — Nikki Schiefelbein
16. "It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment." – Gabriel Garcia Márquez
17. "I only miss you when I’m breathing." — Jason Derulo
18. "That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too." – Kaui Hart Hemmings
19. "I miss you in ways that not even words can understand." — Gemma Troy
20. "We were together even when we were apart." — Shannon A. Thompson
21. "It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true." — Haruki Murakami
22. "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time." — A.A. Milne

Cute relationship quotes

23. “We cannot really love anyone with whom we never laugh.” — Agnes Repplier
24. "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
25. "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
26. “Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” – Richard Bach
27. “I love you much (most beautiful darling) more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.” — e.e. Cummings
28. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust
29. “Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.” — Gabriela Mistral
30. "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
31. “Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words “for ever.” But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.” — Marian Keyes
32. "Maybe you don't need the whole world to love you. Maybe you just need one person." — Kermit the Frog

Relationship goals quotes

33. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
34. “Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.” — Andrea Gibson
35. “Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” — Gloria Steinem
36. “The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum.” — Mandy Hale
37. “Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine in yourself, so that you can hear it in others.” — Marian Wright Edelman
38. "Fall in love with someone who makes you glad to be different." — Sue Zhao
39. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." — Victor Hugo
40. “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
41. “We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” — Cornel West
42. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” — Mignon McLaughlin
43. "Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have." — Robert Holden
44. “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
45. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou
46. “Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.” — Fawn Weaver
47. "True love stories never have endings." — Richard Bach
48. “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy — I am telling you it is going to be worth it." — Art Williams

Funny relationship quotes

49. “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell
50. "Love is a two-way street constantly under construction." — Carroll Bryant
51. "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." — Jorge Luis Borges
52. “Love is sharing your popcorn.” — Charles Schultz
53. “If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” — Lily Tomlin
54. “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” — Erma Bombeck
55. "A relationship where you can be weird together is your best choice." — Paulo Coelho
56. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles M. Schulz
57. “Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.” — Judith Viorst
58. “Love is a lot like a backache: it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.” — George Burns
59. "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
60. "Romantic love is a mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one." — Fran Lebowitz
61. "I miss crawling into a man’s arm, kissing his neck, saying those three little words into his ear, 'And another thing...'” — Felicia Michaels
    Sending lots of love your way. ❤️