For those who have experienced it, falling in love can totally change your life. It may happen when you least expect it, but when you feel that spark, you’ll definitely know it. Falling in love isn’t just about feelings, either; it actually benefits your health as well. According to South University, falling in love can make your heart healthier and ward off cardiovascular disease, keep away the common cold, increase longevity, and help you feel more positive.
Whether you have fallen in love before or just want to daydream about what it might feel like, these quotes will help bring that feeling to life.
Here are 75 quotes that perfectly capture what falling in love feels like:
1. You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. —Albert Einstein
2. Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them. —Unknown
3. She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way. —Nicholas Sparks
4. In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don’t force it. You just don’t force love, you don’t force falling in love, you don’t force being in love – you just become. I don’t know how to say that in English, but you just feel it. —Juan Pablo Galavis
5. First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love. —Maya Angelou
6. Falling in love was never in my plan. Until one day I just realized that I love this person too much. —Unknown
7. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. —Mignon McLaughlin
8. Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what’s happening. It’s inevitable. An event you can’t control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course. —Jackie Collins
9. Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart – when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won’t work out. It’s ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything. —Rachael Taylor
10. Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make. —Hussein Nishah
11. One morning, about four o’clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, ‘Why am I out on the highway this time of night?’ I was miserable, and it all came to me: ‘I’m falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with. I can’t fall in love with this man, but it’s just like a ring of fire. —June Carter Cash
12. Each day my love grows deeper, deeper than I never thought before. —Unknown
13. I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I fell for days and weeks and what felt like lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling. —Jess Rothenberg
14. Love is a feeling, a feeling of happiness. Love is powerful, too powerful to play with. This feeling is strange and hard to describe, but when you fall in love, you will know it inside. —Unknown
15. A priceless moment is when the person that you have fallen in love with, looks you right in the eyes to tells you that they have fallen in love with you. —Unknown
16. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. —Helen Rowland
17. Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary. —Crystal Woods
18. All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall. —Meghan O’Rourke
19. Falling in love doesn’t fall by itself. There is always a desire to take the plunge. Just make sure that love sticks around, to pick you up when you fall. —Unknown
20. All I’m saying is that I don’t want to sort of fall in love with fifty different people. I’d rather find one person and fall completely, deeply in over my head. —Anna White
21. Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. —Unknown
22. Don’t fall in love; rise with it. —Amit Abraham
23. I’m not just falling in love with you, I’m falling into you. You’re an ocean, and I’m falling in, drowning in the depths of who you are. —Unknown
24. Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you. —Beth Kephart
25. When two people fall in love, all they can think about is how to build a perfect world around them. —Unknown
26. Isn’t that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe. —Kate Bolick
27. No one believes in love at first sight until that special person comes along and steals your heart. —Unknown
28. When you fall head over heels for someone, you’re not falling in love with who they are as a person; you’re falling in love with your idea of love. —Elisabeth Rohm
29. Don’t try to stop your heart from falling in love, because in the end it may be worth it. —Fad Ibra
30. She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself. —Yiyun Li
31. Because if I fell any deeper for the way his eyes crinkled with his smile or his habit of tapping on his nose to emphasize a point, my ship would be sunk. —Katherine McIntyre, By the Sea
32. I fall into him like one would fall into a dream, ready to submit to your subconscious’s innermost desires and your deepest fears. —Stephanie Binding
33. When you love, you get hurt. When you get hurt, you hate. When you hate, you try to forget. When you try to forget, you start missing. And when you start missing, you’ll eventually fall in love again. —Vinay Sharma
34. Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable. —M. Scott Peck
35. When you’re falling in love, you never notice it until you’ve already hit the ground. —Terry Mark
36. Eros is not tranquil—it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It’s the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression ‘falling in love’ since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall. —Francois Lelord
37. Once you tell someone you love them, you automatically give that person the right to hurt you, and yet you place a trust in them that they won’t tear you apart. —Abhishek Tiwari
38. Falling in love is a wonderfully terrifying sensation. —Steve Maraboli
39. No one ever fell in love without being a little bit brave. —Mario Tomasello
40. When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. —Unknown
41. I loved him desperately, completely, and he wasn’t threatening to consume me anymore. He already had. Everything that was me was him. My heart, mind and soul all were as much a part of him as they were me. —Cassandra Giovanni
42. Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland. —Liane Moriarty
43. You can’t help who you fall in love with. —E.L. Montes
44. Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building; your head tells you, ‘Idiot you’re gonna die’ but your heart tells you ‘Don’t worry pretty girl you can fly.’ —Unknown
45. You know you’re falling in love when the feeling of falling actually feels like you’re floating. —Rashida Rowe
46. Many people do not fall in love; they fall in love with the idea of themselves being in love. They never see the other person. I don’t ask for much; I only ask to be seen. —C. JoyBell
47. […] when you know, you know. And you don’t fight it. You don’t deny the inevitable. You free fall because you know there’s someone there to catch you on the other side. —S. L. Jennings
48. I’ve lived long enough to know that falling leads to breaking and breaking can lead to dying but falling can be the best feeling. —Ivy R. Cabading
49. To fall in love and to commit yourself to love means you should make your loved one the one thing you cherish the most. —Kou Yoneda
50. When your stomach turns somersaults every time you see your love interest, when you can go without eating for half a day because you can’t think of anything else, and when the sound of her voice blocks out every possible distraction each time you hear it…then logic’s role becomes a very minor one. —Erik Tomblin
51. You know you’re in love the moment you can touch the stars without reaching. —Melisa M. Hamling
52. These butterflies hurt, without being brutal. It’s almost like I’m intoxicated, without wanting to hurl. And suddenly I wonder, could this be love? —Francine Chiar
53. Only fools fall in love and I guess I’m one of them. —Unknown
54. Falling in love is like leaping from a cliff. Your brain screams that it’s not a good idea and that hurt and pain will inevitably come to you. But your heart believes you can soar, glide and fly. —Marie Coulson
55. Because before the time when you’re heartbroken, you get to be in love, and that’s worth it. —Leila Sales
56. It was the strangest sensation, fallin’ in love. ‘Bout the only thing I compare it to would be jumpin’ off a big cliff. Once you’re past the edge, there ain’t no particular reason to be graspin’ for a line a safety. You just keep on fallin’ anyhow, so you might as well enjoy it the whole way down. —Dorothy Garlock
57. I loved you before I even knew the name for it. Everyday I’d sit beside you, inhaling your scent, looking at your beautiful face. Every night, dreaming about you. You eclipsed everything else. It was you. Always you. —Heather Anastasiu
58. This thing about you that you think is your flaw – it’s the reason I’m falling in love with you. – Colleen Hoover
59. Maybe it’s just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows – maybe even tomorrow. – Haruki Murakami
60. …It’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return. – E.A. Bucchianeri
61. To fall in love with someone’s thoughts – the most intimate, splendid romance. – Sanober Khan
62. No one ever fell in love gracefully. – Connie Brockway
63. Waiting for you is as delightful as waiting for sunset. – Kamand Kojouri
64. This is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair. – Christina Baker Kline
65. When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. – Arrigo Boito
66. The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. – Nicholas Sparks
67. If it is right, it happens – the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. – John Steinbeck
68. You don’t love because; you love despite. Not for the virtues, but despite the faults. – William Faulkner
69. Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness; the truth more first than sun, more last than star. – E. E. Cummings
70. There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau
71. To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. – Mark Twain
72. “I’m happiest when I’m right next to you.” Anonymous
73. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” Dr. Seuss
74. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
75. “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.”
Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones
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