Blow Away Your Boys Mind With These Smoochy Quotes
It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that modern man is quite different from those of just 20 years ago. The grizzly alpha male type was once a default setting for most men, and that’s a good thing because, well, the world needs guys like that!
But men with a softer edge seem more evident these days, and that’s a welcome, lovely evolution. Over the last few years, the world has softened its usual male stereotypes, with men of all ages less shy about displaying a romantic side, confident in dishing out romantic love quotes when the moment takes them. Bless’em.
It’s becoming quite vogue for guys to embrace their inner softy and show feelings that most women only thought were exclusive to them. Even famous bad-boy rappers like Eminem have started churning out highly affectionate love raps – something that would have been hard to imagine 10 years ago. Who would have thought, right? Eminem being all slushy. Unthinkable!
We want to push this new narrative along and aid you with some terrific, awe-inspiring romantic love quotes for him and remind the fellas in your life just how much you care. So, we have been doing some digging around, just for you.
But this wasn’t just any old digging. This is a very carefully selected list of romantic love quotes for him (which in many cases can be applied to both sexes because that’s just how it is.)
Through a combination of diverse sources, old and new, funny and poignant, modern and traditional, we present 90 of the best quips, quotes, and short sonnets to bowl over your man and knock him dead with love.
Each quote carries different weight depending on the context and the recipient – we don’t believe it’s fair to number this as a top list because that would suggest some quotes are better than others – and that can’t be right when they all have different meanings to different people.
Also, we have added a special section at the end, full of romantic love quotes specifically for text messaging your guy, just to mix things up a little. This is 2022, after all. Not all of us have time to compose handwritten love letters sealed in wax! Most of you will use social messaging to reach out to your other half, so we have put together a short list just for text messaging, which I am sure you will find handy!
Enjoy the list! We have tried mixing the list with long, short, heavy, and light. One or two quotes here have held the test of time for 500 years! Maybe you can use them as inspiration to write your very own dazzling message of romance and sweep him off his feet.
Romantic Love Quotes for Him – Movies, Books, and Famous People
“To go it alone or to go with a partner. When you choose a partner, you have to have compromises and sacrifices, but it’s the price you pay. Do I want to follow my every whim and desire as I make my way through time and space? Absolutely. But at the end of the day, do I need someone when I’m doubting myself and I’m insecure, and my heart’s failing me? Do I need someone who, when the heat gets hot, has my back? I do.” – Safety Not Guaranteed.
“Life has taught us that divine love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” – Matt Groening.
“Love is winning the war without starting the war.” – Charles de Leusse.
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss.
“I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”- Notting Hill
“When we fall in love, we are filled with the sense of how defenseless human beings are, and we tremble at the daily existence we have led in blissful obliviousness until this time. For this reason, people are occasionally made virtuous by love.” – Yukio Mishima.
“Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.” – William Shakespeare.
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” – Bernard M. Baruch.
“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 Fulgham.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” – C. S. Lewis.
“Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession could.” – Barbara de Angelis.
“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” – Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear.
“It’s not love to be static like the desert, nor is it love to roam all the world like the wind. And it’s not love to see everything from a distance. Love is the force that transforms and improves the soul of the world…when we love we always strive to become better than we are.” – Paulo Coelho.
“Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.” – Charles de Leusse.
“It’s an idea we’re more or less stuck with. Isn’t love a sharing? Isn’t it opening your bag of sweets and passing it around, or whipping something up out of groceries you brought to someone else’s house? And if it’s sharing then you have to share it. Love makes all the world go round, the hit songs collectively tell us, and the world is full of people you don’t know and might as well be nice to because they won’t leave. Some of the people you won’t like, but every day we wait for the postman and he hardly ever brings something good.” – Daniel Handler.
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
“My love, I do not love you for you or for me or for all of us together, I do not love you because my blood tells me to love you, I love you because you are not mine, because you are from the other side, from there you invite me to jump and I cannot make the jump, because in the deepest moment of possession you are not mine…” – Julio Cortazar.
“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.” – David Levithan.
“You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.” – Arthur Conan Doyle.
“‘I am,’ he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. ‘I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. 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.
“To love another person is to see the face of God.” – Victor Hugo.
“I love you, and I like you.” – Parks and Recreation.
“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.” – Barbara de Angelis.
“You have fixed my whole Life—however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.” – Wilfred Owen.
“Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, the song of a thought, and how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.” – Vladimir Nabokov.
“People are like cities: We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time, all we let each other see is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square. Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn’t know were there, even the ones they wouldn’t have thought to call beautiful themselves.” – Hilary Smith.
“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater … The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.” – Sarah Deeson.
“Now, I’m not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty. As I got to know you, I began to realize that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it. I didn’t understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life. I knew it was hopeless, but that didn’t matter to me. And it’s not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. Tell me what to do. Show me how to behave. I’ll do anything you say.” – Pierre laclos.
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” -Arthur Conan Doyle.
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest, and it opens up your heart, and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life … You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. ” – Neil Gaiman.
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.” – David Wallace.
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love – I have found you. You are my sympathy — my better self — my good angel — I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my center and spring of life, wrap my existence about you — and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.” – Charlotte Bronte, Jayne Eyre.
“There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.” – Never Ending Story.
“What I’m feeling, I think, is joy. And it’s been some time since I’ve felt that blinkered rush of happiness. This might be one of those rare events that lasts, one that’ll be remembered and recalled as months and years wind and ravel. One of those sweet, significant moments that leaves a footprint in your mind. A photograph couldn’t ever tell its story. It’s like something you have to live to understand. One of those freak collisions of fizzing meteors and looming celestial bodies and floating debris and one single beautiful red ball that bursts into your balanced life and through your body like an enormous firework. Where things shift into focus for a moment, and everything makes sense. And it becomes one of those things inside you, a pearl among sludge, one of those big exaggerated memories you can invoke at any moment to peel away a little layer of how you felt, like a lick of ice cream. The flavor of grace.” – Craig Silvey.
“It’s more like every electron in every atom in the entire universe conspired, breathed in deeply, assessed the situation, and then reversed its course, spinning backward, or the other way, which was the right way all along. And afterward, the universe was exactly the same, but infinitely more right.” – Lydia Netzer.
Short Anonymous Romantic Love Quotes
“You are the ever-expanding universe to me.”
“Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for us!”
“Sometimes, when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn’t even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
“No relationship is all sunshine and roses, but two people can share one umbrella and survive the storm.”
“Love is like death. It doesn’t care whether you are strong or weak, old or young, hopeful greenhorn or a bitter veteran. When it comes, you can’t run away.”
“The more and more I spend time with you, the more and more I realize I am doing the one thing I told myself I would never do again… fall in love.
“To lose balance for love is part of a balanced life”
“My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding.”
“You take my breath away. I can’t imagine living my life without you by my side. Thanks for making the journey so amazing!”
“I know we’re young, and it’s early to say this… but I hope you’re the one.”
“Calling me cute is nice. Calling me hot is great. But calling me yours is what I really want.”
“There isn’t one person in the world I want more than I want you.”
Text Message Romantic Love Quotes
It’s a lovely feeling. In the middle of a tough day when everything that could go wrong has gone wrong, and you are staring up at the clock every five minutes, praying for it to go quicker, you hear a little buzz on your phone.
Expecting more bad news in some way, your mood is instantly brighter because a special one has just reminded you how amazing you are and how magnificent life is. It’s just one of those small things that can change your entire day!
So, we have put together a compilation of heartfelt quotes and quips that perfectly suit the style of short DMs. Just in case you want to surprise your special guy with an inspirational, romantic message when he least expects it and needs it most.
A Short Sweet Ditty.
“I would be lost without you.”
A Quick Reminder.
“I love you so much more than you will ever know.”
Coronary Robbery!
“You stole my heart a long time ago, and I never want you to give it back.”
Simple Often Works Best.
“Missing you!”
Says It Best.
“You’re my whole wide world.”
Thanks To You.
“You make me feel so incredible about myself.”
Like a Lottery Win.
“How on Earth did I get so lucky?”
Boom Boom.
“You make my heart beat right out of my chest.”
Greedy.
“Here’s the plan. You, me, Netflix, takeout, fall asleep.”
Scary!
“I don’t normally like horror movies, but I know I’ll be safe with you close to me.”
Smother!
“I need cuddles and kisses, and you’re the only one who can do that for me.”
Simple Is Best.
“I was just thinking about you.”
Showoff!
“Currently bragging about my awesome man to my friends.”
Comedian.
“No one can make me smile as you do.”
Tummy Ache?
“I’m getting butterflies just thinking about seeing you later.”
Maybe See a Doctor, Then.
“Your arms feel like home.”
Eternal.
“Forever just isn’t enough time with you.”
Be Kinder to Spiders, People.
“Thanks for killing the spiders every time I need you to.”
Slow Down!
“I didn’t know it was possible to long for someone before they left-until I met you.”
Time for a Teddy.
“I’m in bed right now, it just feels so empty without you in it.”
Wow. Deep!
“I have been thinking about you. All day, all night. I don’t have much to say or many things to express. I am just thinking about the moments spent and the times when you are with me, heading in the same direction, together.”
Fortunate.
“I’m lucky to have you as a best friend and real lover forever.”
Looking.
“Everywhere I look, I am reminded of you and your love. You are my world. I keep thinking about you all of the time.”
Gasping.
“I want to be with you forever, until my last breath.”
Blown Away!
“You amaze me more and more with each day.”
Perfection.
“Our everyday life together is my absolute definition of perfect.”
Permanent!
“You are my rose garden forever and for always.”
Mindful.
“You are out of my sight but always in my mind.”
Close to You.
“I would do anything to be by your side right now and always.”
Bold Statement?
“I love you more than I love pizza!”
Messy!
“I want to be forever tangled in your arms.”
Dizzy
“I lose balance just thinking of you!”
Busy!
“I know you are occupied now, but always remember, I love you a lot.”
Dreamy.
“Every day we’re together is another day I’m living all my dreams.”
Stay.
“I’ll never know how you got into my heart, but I do know that I don’t want you to leave.”
You’re the One
“Only you can make this world seem right.”
Snoozy
“I wanna fall asleep next to you right now.”
Times Are Changing.
“My life changed forever the day I found you.”
Growth.
“I Just wanted to let you know that my love for you will grow through all the ages.”
Cringe.
“I don’t wanna miss a single moment of your love.”
Buddhist?
“One lifetime isn’t enough with you, I want more.”
Shiny. And Slightly Cringe.
“Your love shines brighter than the sun.”
Life Partner
“Your soul mate is the person who mends your broken heart by giving you theirs”
Summary
So there you have it! Armed with this list, you should be ready for romantic battle, ready to soften up even the toughest of dudes with some incredibly soppy but downright brilliant romantic love quotes for him.
If that doesn’t bowl him over, you might need a fresh angle of attack; a weekend break in one of the world’s most expensive hotels might do the trick.
Some of them are quite heavy-going, so maybe don’t overkill things by throwing too many romantic quotes in his direction. Otherwise, you might be looking for a new list: how to win back someone you have completely turned off!
