Have You Found the Real Deal? 100 Deep Love Quotes to Cherish Always and Forever

Find inspiration in these deep, short love quotes.

Author:
Kelsey Pelzer
Updated:
Feb 8, 2024

When you experience a profound connection with someone, it is not only life-changing, but life-sustaining. No longer do you walk the road alone, but alongside a similar soul who has your best interests at heart. Think you've found the real deal? Cherish and celebrate it with these 100 quotes on deep love!

Throughout life, we meet plenty of people (romantic partners, coworkers, certain family members, friends, etc.) who are significant to us for a time, and then for whatever reason, the attachment might fade. However, in light of this, those who stay and continue to deeply encourage and walk beside us are such a beloved gift.

These committed relationships are second to none. After all, as Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables explains it, they're "a bosom friend—an intimate friend, you know—a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul." This can describe a mother-daughter bond, best friendship, finding the love of your life, and so on. Deep love stands firm in the good and the bad, the stressful and the blissful, promising to care for and be intentional with one another for as long as you both shall live.

Whether you're cultivating lifelong friendships or appreciating the fact that you've found your perfect match to settle down with, enjoy reading through these 100 deep love quotes!

100 Deep Love Quotes

1. "I love you and that's the beginning and end of everything." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. "It’s a profoundly strange feeling, to stumble across someone whose desires are shaped so closely to your own, like reaching toward your reflection in a mirror and finding warm flesh under your fingertips. If you should ever be lucky enough to find that magical, fearful symmetry, I hope you’re brave enough to grab it with both hands and not let go.” ― Alix E. Harrow

3. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." — Emily Brontë

4. "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." — Honore de Balzac

5. "To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous." — Elizabeth Gilbert

6. "Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me." — Sarah Bernhardt

7. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." — Victor Hugo

8. "Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone." — Cecelia Ahern

9. "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

10. "If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something." — Before Sunrise

11. "You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had." — Nicholas Sparks

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12. "What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions." — Ezra Taft Benson

13. "I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.” ― Cassandra Clare

14. "True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together." — Ricardo Montalban

15. "A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.” ― Shannon Alder

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16. "The way our fingers intertwine feels so natural and right; as if our hands hold memories of meeting in a thousand other lifetimes.” ― John Mark Green

17. "If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.” ― Madeleine L'Engle

18. "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." — Albert Schweitzer

19. "The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence." — Edward Thomas

20. "Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing." — Torquato Tasso

21. "Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses." — Lao Tzu

22. "It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” ― John Joseph Powell

23. "Oh, how a quiet love can drown out every fear." — Jessica Katoff

24. "True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding." — Ellen G. White

25. "Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it." — Toni Morrison

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26. "I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.” — Jodi Picoult

27. "The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.” ― Pandora Poikilos

28. "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." — Nora Ephron

29. "I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.” ― Brené Brown

30. "Love; it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you—it will set you free." — Mumford & Sons

31. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." — David Viscott

32. "When you find that one that's right for you, you feel like they were put there for you, you never want to be apart." — Joe Manganiello

33. "It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be." — Michelle Yeoh

34. "The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed." — Jiddu Krishnamurti

35. "Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes." — Gwendoline Christie

36. "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” ― Herman Melville

37. "We fell into the love that had been lying beneath our love like water below ice, and understood that while we had been having a lot of fun together we had only been skating on the surface, and now we were in as deep as we could go.” ― Salman Rushdie

38. "You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." — Dr. Seuss

39. "Your kisses lift me higher like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky with burning love." — Elvis Presley

40. "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. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home, only to no home I'd ever known. I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like...magic." — Sleepless in Seattle

41. "We loved with a love that was more than love." — Edgar Allan Poe

42. "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." — Ferdinand Foch

43. "Where there is great love, there are always miracles." — Willa Cather

44. "Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.” ― Esther Perel

45. "In vain I have 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." — Jane Austen

46. "To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.” ― Timothy Keller

47. "I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” ― Steve Maraboli

48. "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.” ― Thomas Merton

49. "Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses." — Ann Landers

50. "Love has nothing to do with what you are expected to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything." — Katharine Hepburn

51. "When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.” ― J.K. Rowling

52. "A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'" — bell hooks

53. "Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." — Socrates

54. "I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." — Vincent Van Gogh

55. "I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love." — Idina Menzel

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56. "All that you are is all that I’ll ever need." — Ed Sheeran

57. "True love - that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy - is a choice. It's a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances." — Mark Manson

58. "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

59. "Mother’s love is infinite. A child can’t outgrow it and a mother can’t conceal it.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

60. "If I ever were to lose you, I'd surely lose myself." — Pearl Jam

61. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." — Aristotle