True Love And Short Love Quotes For Him

Medically reviewed by Melissa Guarnaccia, LCSW and Julie Dodson, MA, LCSW
Updated October 10, 2024by BetterHelp Editorial Team

Love quotes are a way to show the people in your life you love them while using the wisdom, emotional intensity, and poetry of others. Romantic love quotes penned by others can help you express just the way you feel, with phrases from great literary minds and books like Antoine de Saint Exupéry, John Green, Nicholas Sparks, The Fault in Our Stars, Harry Potter, and a Tale of Two Cities, to lines from romantic movies like Big Fish. 

If you struggle to find the words to tell the special guy in your life how much you love him, consider using one of the sweet, romantic, funny, or beautiful love quotes below. By keeping his interests and personality in mind, you can pick the best love quotes for him so you can express your deepest feelings more easily. 

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Sweet and cute short love quotes for him to know he means the whole world to you

Some of the best love quotes are sweet love quotes that offer a sense of affection, closeness, and care. Cute love quotes also help keep the mood lighthearted, and it’s always good to make your significant other smile or laugh.

Below are a few of these quotes to impart how he is the missing piece of yourself: 

  1. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” — –Princess Diana 

  2. “You are my greatest adventure.” –—Mr. Incredible Bob Parr, “The Incredibles” 

  3. “The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; —It expands in size the more you love.” —–Samantha, “Her” 

  4. “To me, you are perfect.” —–Mark, “Love Actually” 

  5. “I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is when you’re in the world.” —–Elton John, “Your Song” 

  6. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you,… I could walk through my garden forever.” —–Alfred Tennyson 

  7. “To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” —–Bill Wilson 

  8. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” ——Robert Fulghum, True Love

True love and romantic love quotes for him to fall asleep to

Romantic love has the power to improve mental and physical health and increase your lifespan. The way you fall asleep can improve your sleep quality and increase happiness. Fall asleep slowly with the man in your life with cuddles and sweet words about why you fell in love. 

Just as partners might end the night by saying, “I love you,” quotes about love can convey the same connection. Below are a few romantic love quotes to share with the man in your life: 

  1. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” —–Maya Angelou 

  2.  “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” –—Friedrich Nietzsche 

  3.  “I am in you, and you in me, mutual in divine love.” —–William Blake 

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

  5. “It’s like in that moment, the whole universe existed just to bring us together.” —Sara Thomas, "–Serendipity” 

  6. “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” —–Leo Christopher 

  7. “True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about, and few have seen.” —–Francois de la Rochefoucauld 

  8. “True love stories never have endings.” —–Richard Bach 

  9.  “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, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life.” —Noah Calhoun, “–The Notebook”

  10. “I promise to love you forever — Every single day of forever.” —–Stephenie Meyer & Edward Cullen, “Eclipse”

  11.  “Love is the answer.” —–John Lennon 

  12.  “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.” —–Helen Keller 

  13. "But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.” –Maria V. Snyder, “Poison Study”

  14.  “Love is something eternal. The aspects may change, but not the essence.” —–Vincent van Gogh 

  15.  “You meet thousands of people, and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person, and your life is changed forever.” —Jamie Randall, “–Love and Other Drugs” 

  16.  “We loved with a love that was more than love.” —–Edgar Allan Poe 

  17.  “How lucky am I to have someone who makes saying goodbye so hard.” —–A.A. Milne 

  18.  “Even after all these years, we just now got the feeling that we’re meeting for the first time.” —–The Script, “For the First Time” 

  19. “I want to fall asleep next to you every night, as your silent sleeping brings peace, and the only thought I want to have each morning is waking up to see your face.” —–Unknown 

  20.  “You are the greatest gift in my life, such a special person greatest gift of my life.” —–Unknown 

  21. “I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” ——JRR Tolkien

  22. “Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” ——Franklin P. Jones

  23. “I've fallen in love. I'm an ordinary woman. I didn't think such violent things could happen to ordinary people.” —— Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter

  24. “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty thru good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present; it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past. It is the day-in and out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else is there, it isn't enough.” ——Ann Landers

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Short romantic love quotes for him 

Oftentimes the right words to express your love are pithy and to the point. The best love quotes don’t need a lot of words to tell your best friend that they’re the one you’ll cherish forever. Below are some short and deep love quotes for expressing your love.: 

  1. “My soul and your soul are forever tangled.” —–N.R. Hart 

  2. “I have found the one whom my soul loves.” —–Song of Solomon 3:4 

  3. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” –—Aristotle 

  4. “Come near now and kiss me.” –Genesis 27:26 

  5. “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” –Arthur Conan Doyle, “White Company”

  6. “I need you like a heart needs a beat.” –—One Republic, “Apologize”

  7. “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” –Vladimir Nabokov 

  8. “All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.” –—Ed Sheeran, “Tenerife Sea” 

  9. “I love you. You complete me.” –—Unknown Jerry Maguire, “Jerry Maguire” 

  10. “Love is being stupid together.” –Paul Valery 

  11.  “You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.” —–Taylor Swift, “Mine” 

  12.  “A true love story never ends.” –Unknown 

  13.  “’Until my last day, I’ll be loving you.” —–Justin Moore, “’ Til My Last Day” 

  14.  “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” —–Rumi 

  15.  “Grow old with me; the best is yet to be.” —–Robert Browning 

  16.  “I love you, and I like you.” —Leslie Knope, “–Parks & Recreation” 

  17.  “You’re my forever and always.” —–Unknown 

  18.  “All you are is all I’ll ever need.” —–Unknown 

  19.  “I will always travel in the same direction as you, as you are my greatest adventure.” —–Unknown 

  20.  “Let me whisper sweet nothings to you.” —–Unknown 

  21.  “You are a real lover; your deep love is all I need.” —–Unknown 

  22.  “For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.” —–Antoine de Saint- Exupery 

  23. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” ——Robert Frost

  24. “True love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” ——Unknown

  25. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” —— Zora Neale Hurston

  26. “Take my hand, take my whole life too” ——Elvis Presley

  27. “I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” ——Julia Roberts, Notting Hill

  28. “You are my one and only, the love of my life.” ——Unknown

  29. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” ——Sophocles

Funny love quotes for him 

Laughter can reduce stress and improve mental well-being. Below are some quotes about love that might give you a good laugh:

  1. “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” –—Albert Einstein 

  2. “Love is being stupid together.” —–Paul Valery 

  3. “It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.” —–Lucille Ball 

  4. “I love you no matter what you do, but why do you have to do so much of it?” —–Jean Illsley Clarke 

  5. “The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.” —–Henry Youngman 

  6. “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet service to see who they really are.” —–Will Ferrell 

  7. “If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.” –—Alan King 

  8. “People should fall in love with their eyes closed.” –Andy Warhol 

  9. “Love is the same as like, except you feel sexier.” —–Judith Viorst 

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The benefits of sharing love quotes 

Sharing love quotes with a partner or love interest can be a way to express love through words of affirmation, one of the five “love languages” people may identify with. If you or your partner feels a sense that they are deeply loved through words, you might consider adding one of these quotes to a sticky note each day, and putting it somewhere secret in the house for your partner to find. If you don’t live together, you might try sending a love quote as a text or putting it together with a gift for you to give them. 

The benefits of sharing love quotes might include closeness with your partner, an increased sense of care in the relationship, and a reignited spark in a long-term connection. Love quotes may also be beneficial for those who struggle to come up with their own sentiments to say but still want to give their partner loving words. 

Support options

Despite the benefits of all types of relationships in your life, relationships can sometimes pave way for conflict. If you’re experiencing conflict in your relationships or want to improve the dynamics in your relationship or marriage, the other way to take action may be to talk to a therapist. However, some couples or individuals may face barriers to face-to-face therapy, such as financial struggles or difficulty finding a couples therapist who accepts insurance. 

In these cases, it may be possible to talk to a therapist online through a platform like BetterHelp for individuals or ReGain for couples. Both platforms allow you to match with a therapist that meets your goals for therapy. In addition, you can choose between phone, video, or live chat in-app messaging sessions and meet in your space from home at a time that works for you. Online therapy can also be beneficial for long-distance couples who cannot commute to the same office building. 

Studies show that online couples therapy is effective. One study found that online couples interventions were more effective than in-person options, and clients found them more comfortable, as they believed they could open up more freely with their therapist over a video call than they would in person.

Takeaway

Love quotes for him can be meaningful ways to show you care. Whether you choose sweet, romantic, funny, or cute quotes, they can be a way to express the words you might struggle to find. If you’re looking for advice on communication and love in relationships, it may be helpful to reach out to a therapist in your area or online via platforms like BetterHelp and ReGain for further support and guidance.

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