You know that feeling when “I love you” doesn’t quite cut it? When you need something more specific, more expansive, something that actually captures the particular way you love this person? That’s when I go searching for quotes that start with “my love for you” or capture that sentiment. They’re more personal somehow, more directed, like love letters instead of simple declarations.
What I’ve learned is that the greatest writers, poets, and thinkers throughout history have struggled with this same problem. How do you put into words something that lives beyond language? Here are 55 quotes that come close to capturing it.
My Love for You Quotes That Capture the Depth of Real Love
1. “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.” – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
2. “You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
3. “Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.” – Dante Alighieri
4. “If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand.” – M. Christina White
5. “My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding.” – M. Christina White
6. “No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you’re the only one who knows the sound of my heart from the inside.” – Unknown
7. “Every day my love for you grows higher, deeper, wider, stronger… It grows and grows until it touches the tip of where you are and comes back to me in the loving memory of you.” – Unknown
8. “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
9. “You know how a river goes on and on? That’s my love for you.” – Beth Kephart, Undercover
10. “I will follow you to the ends of the world.” – Khaled Hosseini
11. “If you listen to the wind very carefully, you’ll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.” – Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
12. “I need you because I love you.” – Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
13. “You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want. I’m going to just go on loving you, even if it’s hopeless.” – Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
14. “Loving you is a full-time job. It’s a great job, don’t get me wrong. It’s the best job in the universe. But it’s not easy.” – Carrie Jones, Captivate
15. “I won’t stop loving you because I can’t stop loving you.” – Unknown
16. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
17. “Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.” – Margaret Mead
18. “My love for you won’t stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside your door and hear the wind blowing through the cottonwoods, that’ll be me, thinking of you, whispering your name, and loving you.” – Unknown
19. “I think part of me was born loving you.” – Shiloh Walker
20. “I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.” – Unknown
21. “I will always love you, no matter what happens now.” – Unknown
22. “I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters.” – Melissa de la Cruz, Lost In Time
23. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.” – Pablo Neruda, Love Poems
24. “My love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.” – Pablo Neruda, Love Poems
25. “Deny me bread, air, light, spring, but never your laughter for I would die.” – Pablo Neruda, Love Poems
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26. “I have named you queen. There are taller ones than you, taller. There are purer ones than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.” – Pablo Neruda, Love Poems
27. “As if I had never walked except with you, my heart, as if I could not walk except with you, as if I could not sing except when you sing.” – Pablo Neruda, Love Poems
28. “But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.” – Pablo Neruda, Love Poems
29. “My love for you does not recognize boundaries, distances, borders, or time-zones!” – Avijeet Das
30. “Because in truth, my love, if you have thought of me once then I have thought of you a thousand times. You have captured my heart. It is yours. I am at your mercy now.” – Kamand Kojouri
31. “My dear, please be careful. You no longer live only for yourself. You live for me as well.” – Kamand Kojouri
32. “My love, you are driving the entire world mad.” – Kamand Kojouri
33. “My love is a winter’s mist gently dissolving through the window at the nape of your neck.” – Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
34. “I want you to know that you are my soul and my HEART. You are my today, my tomorrow and my PAST.” – Mouloud Benzadi
35. “I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
36. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
37. “The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.” – Edward Thomas
38. “In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.” – Hans Nouwens
39. “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
40. “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
41. “If you want to know how much I love you, look into my eyes with your heart open.” – Unknown
42. “My love for you is deeper than anything that happened between us. My love for you is the sun, the sky, and the moon. It’s the air I breathe.” – Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath
43. “I love you as high as the sky and as deep as the sea.” – Mary Ting, Crossroads
44. “Multiply my love by infinity and take it to the depths of forever.” – Mary Ting, Crossroads
45. “You are the light to my dark, Sunshine. Without you, I’m lost.” – Ana Huang, Twisted Love
46. “I love her so much I would rather give her up than hurt her.” – Ana Huang, Twisted Love
47. “I wanted every shadow of his soul and every piece of his beautiful, multilayered heart.” – Ana Huang, Twisted Love
48. “I’ll drain every fucking lake and ocean in the world if I have to.” – Ana Huang, Twisted Love
49. “You told me once there was something beautiful waiting for me, something that’ll restore my faith in life. I’ve found it. It’s you.” – Ana Huang, Twisted Love
50. “My love is not gentle, or tender, or easy. But it is real, grown from hate and pain deep inside a chest sullied by shadows.” – Liv Zander, Shadows So Cruel
51. “And once we are gone from this earth, I will continue to love you among the stars.” – Liv Zander, Shadows So Cruel
52. “I will be the night, the darkest patch of sky around you, just to ensure that everyone can see how you sparkle.” – Liv Zander, Shadows So Cruel
53. “I might not be able to bond myself to you, but I want you to know that I’m yours until the end… whenever that might be.” – Liv Zander, Shadows So Cruel
54. “Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.” – Emily Dickinson
55. “We shall always be, you and I, alone upon the earth, to begin life.” – Pablo Neruda, Love Poems
These quotes remind me that I’m not alone in struggling to express the depth of what I feel. Every person who’s ever loved deeply has faced this same beautiful impossibility, trying to capture infinity in words. That’s why these quotes matter, they give us language for feelings that seem to exist beyond language.
