Although you certainly don't need to use Valentine's Day as an excuse to share your feelings or utter a romantic saying to your partner, February 14 does happen to be a good opportunity to let your more amorous flag fly. While you may be busy creating a unique date night, choosing a spectacular outfit, DIYing decorations, or shopping for the perfect present for your new boyfriend or galentine, we generally find that it's your words that make the biggest difference on Valentine's Day, and beyond. So if you're searching for inspiration to write that cute note, we've curated a list of some of the most romantic love quotes. Whisper these sweet nothings to your paramour, or, ya know use them as an Instagram caption. The choice is yours.

“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," said Winnie the Pooh in Pooh’s Little Instruction Book.

The ancient Greek tragedian wrote in his play Oedipus at Colonus, "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."

"I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night," wrote the late filmmaker and author Nora Ephron in the screenplay for her movie When Harry Met Sally.

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets," wrote the internationally bestselling Japanese novelist in his book Kafka on the Shore.

“I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates," said the late civil rights activist and poet during Oprah's Master Class.

In her song "Die With You" the pop culture icon sings, "Darling I wake up just to sleep with you / I open my eyes so I could see with you / And I live so I can die with you."

“When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues," Lady O wrote in her What I Know For Sure column in the February 2004 issue of O, the Oprah Magazine.

The late, great civil rights activist and author wrote in her poem Touched By An Angel: “In the flush of love’s light / we dare be brave / and suddenly we see / that love costs all we are / and will ever be. / Yet it is only love / which sets us free."

"I hope you don’t mind / That I put down in words / How wonderful life is while you’re in the world,” sang the award-winning British musician in "Your Song".

In her song "Because You Loved Me" the five-time Grammy award winning singer wrote, "Maybe I don’t know that much / But I know this much is true / I was blessed because I was loved by you."

“This is the beauty of finding a partner that you really love and respect, because after all the highs and lows and ups and downs, we have each other, which makes the journey worth it,” said former First Lady Michelle Obama in an interview with our editor-at-large Gayle King.

"I am thinking of you / In my sleepless solitude tonight / If it’s wrong to love you / Then my heart just won’t let me be right," the chart-topping singer says in her song "My All."

"We loved with a love that was more than love," wrote the influential American poet in Annabel Lee.

"'Cause all of me / Loves all of you / Love your curves and all your edges / All your perfect imperfections," wrote the singer-songwriter in the lyrics to his iconic song, “All Of Me”.

In his song "Just The Way You Are" the 11-time Grammy award-winning musician said: "When I see your face / There’s not a thing that I would change / ‘Cause you’re amazing / Just the way you are."

In her song "Make You Feel My Love," the 31-year-old English singer writes, "When the rain is blowing in your face / And the whole world is on your case / I could offer you a warm embrace / To make you feel my love."

“In one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough,” wrote the young adult fiction writer in his novel-turned movie, The Notebook.

"Everywhere I'm looking now / I'm surrounded by your embrace / Baby, I can see your halo / You know you're my saving grace / You're everything I need and more / It's written all over your face / Baby, I can feel your halo / Pray it won't fade away," sang the music legend with over 70 Grammy nominations, in her song "Halo."

The Victorian era poet wrote in Sonnet 43, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight / For the ends of being and ideal grace."

“Take my hand, take my whole life too / For I can’t help falling in love with you," sang the rock-n-roll legend in "Can’t Help Falling In Love."

In his book The Fault In Our Stars, the prominent young adult novelist writes, “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

"It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight," Russian American author wrote in his famous novel Lolita.

“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love,” wrote the famous English poet and playwright in Hamlet.

The Nobel Prize winning poet wrote in One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII: "I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul."

The Brazilian novelist wrote in his bestselling book, The Alchemist, "So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."

“In vain have I 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 wrote in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice.

"If we'd never met, I think I would have known that my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for," the prolific writer penned in The Longest Ride, published in 2013.

In his play A Midsummer Night's Dream, therenowned playwright wrote “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.

Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison wrote in her 1992 historical novel Jazz, “Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”

“If I know nevertheless what love is, it is because of you," German-Swiss author and poet Hermann Hesse wrote in his 1930 novel Narcissus and Goldmund.

In a posthumous published book of his essays and collections, theologist and writer Thomas Merton wrote, “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another.”

“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved," American romance author Shana Abé wrote in her fantasy fiction novel The Dream Thief.

In the The Harlequin, the fifteenth installment of the vampire series by Laurell K. Hamilton, it is written, “Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment."

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment," Sarah Dessen wrote in her 2004 novel The Truth About Forever.

Actor, martial artist and philosopher Bruce Lee wrote about love in his biography Bruce Lee: Artist of Life, '“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." He continued on to say, "As love grows older, our hearts mature / And our love becomes as coals, / Deep-burning and unquenchable.

German social psychologist Erich Fromm explored relationships in his book The Art of Loving, “Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you."

“There is no remedy for love but to love more," naturalist and essayist Henry David Thoreau wrote in a published annotation of his journals.

“Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more," German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote in The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily.

The French writer decreed in his English-translated novel On Love, “Real love renders the thought of death frequent, agreeable, unterrifying; a mere subject of comparison, the price we are willing to pay for many a thing.

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same," famed English novelist and poet Emily Brontë wrote in her sole, but timeless novel Wuthering Heights.

“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me," writer and social critic Charles Dickens wrote in his novel Our Mutual Friend.

Poet E.E. Cummings wrote about love in his book of collected works, “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."

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known, but even that is an understatement," novelist and short story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a collection of annotated letters.

British-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen wrote about falling in love in her wartime fictional novel The Death of the Heart, “When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out."

“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition," the Scottish poet wrote in his book of essays Dreamthorp, published in 1863.

New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts compares love to magic in her book Honest Illusions where she writes, “Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

“Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return," teacher and activist Peace Pilgrim wrote in her self-help book, Steps Toward Inner Peace.

Science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in her novel The Lathe of Heaven, “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides,” American psychiatrist and media personality David Viscott wrote in his book, How to Live with Another Person.

Young adult author Sara Farizan wrote in her novel Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, “I was doing fine until you were so ridiculously sweet at just the right times.”

“When you love someone, you are sure. You don’t need time to decide. You don’t say stop and start over and over, like you’re playing some kind of sport. You know the immensity of what you have and you protect it," American author Nina LaCour wrote in her book Everything Leads to You.

“I'm conscious this could be rather burdensome to hear, but you remain the thing I have most chosen for myself. The thing that's most exclusively mine. The one thing that brings me the deepest joy," English author Alexis Hall wrote in his book Boyfriend Material.