If you’re looking for a bit of inspiration to help put your passion into words, you’ll want to check out these heartwarming lesbian love quotes. From literary lines to touching quotes from real lesbian couples, they’ll give you all the feels.
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Inspiring Lesbian Love Quotes That Will Warm Your Heart
I’ve included a great mix of love quotes from or about famous lesbians as well as some beautiful gender-neutral quotes. Let’s jump in!
1. Revise the Script
“Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.”
From the 2003 young adult novel- Keeping You A Secret by Julie Anne Peters, a novelist who has written 20 novels, many of which feature LGBT characters.
2. A writer who loves women
“I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.”
By British novelist, Jeanette Winterson, who was chosen as one of BBC’s 100 Women in 2016.
3. Truly one of the best days
“It was truly one of our best days, completely awkward and human and beautiful. I’m married to my best friend and nothing has ever brought me more joy than that.”
Brandi Carlile, a Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter, talked about her September 15, 2012, wedding to Catherine Shepherd.
4. Women are beautiful
“I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.”
By Rita Mae Brown, activist, feminist and writer.
5. Then there’s completion
“I could say the same thing I’ve said in every relationship: I’m happy. But there’s happiness and there’s love, and then there’s completion.”-
From Ellen DeGeneres, actress, comedian, and television host, talking about her love for Portia de Rossi. Definitely one of the most touching lesbian love quotes. Ellen sure has a way with words, doesn’t she?
6. She holds all the beauty
“When she lowers her eyes, she seems to hold all the beauty in the world between her eyelids; when she raises them, I see only myself in her gaze.”
By Natalie Clifford Barney, a novelist, playwright, and poet.
7. In your eyes
“In your eyes I see myself become what I always dreamed I could be.”
From the 1969 historical fiction novel- Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller, a novelist who was best known for her lesbian fiction novels.
8. A love story to last a lifetime
“You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.”
From the 2009 novel- The River: The Unsung Love Story by Cristina Marrero, a writer, and intersectional advocate.
9. She makes me feel reappeared
“Instead of disappearing, she makes me feel reappeared. Reimagined. Her touch shapes me, draws out the boldness that had been hiding in my core.”
From the 2018 young adult novel- Girls of Paper & Fire by the New York Times bestselling author, Natasha Ngan.
10. It is Simply Love
“Being a lesbian means I have the opportunity to love what is uncommon and I’m okay with that. I do not cry myself to sleep or am upset by the life that I lead because of who I care about. Because I accept the fact that it is simply love.”
By YouTuber and personal life coach Jenna Embers (Lesbian Answers), [1] which currently has 153,000 subscribers.
11. They possessed a miracle
“How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.”
From the 1952 romance novel- The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, a novelist, and short story writer. The 2015 romantic melodrama movie, Carol, is based on the novel.
12. At last, she was home
“Then they took the last step together, and when she kissed her, her mouth as warm as summer, the taste of her sweet and clear, she knew, at last, that she was home.”
From the 2009 young adult fantasy lesbian novel- Ash by Malinda Lo, a writer of young adult novels.
13. Everything about her
“It isn’t as simple as a fascination of the flesh. It’s everything about her that I love: her intelligence, her ambition, her talent, her sense of humor, her dependability, her kindness.”
From the 2013 romance novel- The Gravity Between Us by Kristen Zimmer, a freelance writer, and editor.
14. You don’t say stop
“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.”-
From the 2014 young adult fiction novel- Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour, a bestselling author of young adult novels.
15. Infinite tenderness
“I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. My whole life.”
By Emma, talking about Adele, from the 2013 French romance movie- Blue Is the Warmest Colour.
16. Animal passion
“No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.”
By Adrienne Rich, an award-winning essayist, feminist, and poet.
17. Now you are whole
“I think you know immediately. As soon as your eyes meet… Then everything that happens from then on just proves that you have been right in that first moment. When you suddenly realize that you were incomplete and now you are whole.”-
By Luce, talking about Rachel, from the 2005 romantic, comedy-drama movie- Imagine Me & You, starring Lena Headey and Piper Perabo.
18. An overwhelming love
“It was overwhelming to see Sara walk down the aisle looking so beautiful, it was so picturesque and so, so beautiful. It was perfect…I was overwhelmed with emotion and I wanted to cry.”
By Whitney Mixter, talking about her wedding to Sara Bettencourt. The couple starred on Showtime’s reality television series- The Real L Word.
19. A time-release love
“Every day I can’t believe it. It’s such a joy to have such a great lady and the beauty of freedom reveals itself to me in a time release fashion.”-
By Chely Wright, a country music singer and activist, talks about Lauren Blitzer, an LGBT rights advocate, whom she married on August 20, 2011.
20. Forever and Please Don’t Go
“I named both of her eyes Forever and Please Don’t Go.”
Lyrics from the 2013 song- She Keeps Me Warm by folk singer, Mary Lambert.
21. I love you simply…
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” – Pablo Neruda’s 100 Sonnets collection.
22. True love happens in a heartbeat.
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” -Sarah Dressen, The Truth About Forever.
23. I found you in the clarity of the moon
“I found you in the clarity of the moon, Not the rigor of the sun. Not in the light, where it’s easier to see, but when the world is blind and loves eyes are free.” — Malika E Nura
24. Love is about two thirsty souls
“Love is not about two different genders, it’s about two thirsty souls.” — Quintin Gellar
25. My most reliable source of light
“She’s my role model, my traveling companion, my most reliable source of light, my fortitude, my most trusted confidante. In short, she is my PERSON.” Elizabeth Geller
Geller, author of Eat, Pray, Love used these beautiful words to describe the moment she realized she didn’t just love her best friend, but she was in love with her.
26. A love that stands the test of time…
“Our love has survived many struggles. We experienced condemnation, contempt, anger, envy. But our love has stood all the tests because it is genuine. I love you to the moon and back.” — Brett Sayles
27. Only love that includes friendship can stand the test of time
“All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon sand
“. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
28. Speaking of friendship…
“When your best friend becomes your girlfriend, it feels like you’ve won the jackpot”. – Unknown
29. My Princess Charming!
“My prince charming is a princess”. -Unknown (typically found on t-shirts)
30. My whole world stops…
“When I am with you, the world stops. I look at you as if you are a one-of-a-kind woman. Only you can make my heart tremble with joy!” — Quintin Gellar.
31. Love is a wildfire…
“Love is a wildfire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man.” – Cristina Marrero.
32. Finding your soul mate is like meeting yourself again
“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.” ― Rita Mae Brown
33. The thousand secret ways
“She loves me for the way I never leave her .. and I love her for the thousand secret ways she makes me stay” — Michael Xavier
34. Love is the tool and the end product
“As love accumulates, it keeps your system in balance and harmony. Love is the tool, and more love is the end product”. – Sarah Paddison
35. The meeting of two souls
“Love is a meeting of two souls, fully accepting the dark and the light within each other, bound by the courage to grow through struggle into bliss.” – Unknown
36. True Love Color
“With you, I am not afraid to show off my true love color.” — Quintin Gellar
37. Biggest Happiness in Life
“I fell for you because you didn’t promise to give me the stars, you took my hand and we went to watch the stars together. And when we became a family, I understood that I’ve been blessed with the biggest happiness in life” – your love. – Brett Sayles
38. It can only be true love…
“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
39. When our lips touch
‘I swear when our lips touch I can taste the next 60 years of my life.’ – Rudy Francisco
40. Find your kind of weird
“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.” – Dr. Seuss
41. If I had a flower…
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson
42. We strive to become better when we love
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
43. True feminist
“The true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women”. – Rosemary Ketchum
44. The way they love your darker side
“When you find the one, it is the way they love your darker side that makes it all the more special”. -Mahrael Boutros
45. We need no reason to love
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” -Paulo Coelho
46. Love happens
“What happened to you? You happened to me.” From the movie Disobedience, released in 2017
”Disobedience” is a 2017 movie directed by Sebastian Lelio and it is based on the 2006 book of the same title. It stars Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams. The two play childhood friends who fall for each other but get separated. They reunite years later with Weisz’s character, Ronit, re-igniting her feelings for McAdam’s Esti, who, unfortunately, is now married to a rabbi.
47. Morning thoughts
“Every morning I wake up and I think that I never want to be far from you.” From the movie The World to Come, released in 2020
”The World to Come” (2020) was directed by Mona Fastvold and tells the love story of Abigail (played by Katherine Waterston) and Tallie (Vanessa Kirby). Set in the frontier during the late 1850s, the critically acclaimed movie is about two women in loveless marriages who begin a forbidden romance.
48. Beyond Imagination
“This is not how I saw my life, but it’s so much better than anything I could have imagined. I want to be with you.” From the movie Lez Bomb, released in 2018
“Lez Bomb” is about closeted lesbian Lauren who hides her sexuality from her conservative parents. She finally brings her lover, Hailey, to meet her mom and dad, but her roommate, Austin, shows up the same night and her parents think he is her lover. Directed by Jenna Laurenzo, the film stars Jenna Laurenzo, Caitlin Mehner, Cloris Leachman, and Bruce Dern.
49. A farewell to fears and secrets
“I am done being scared and I am done keeping secrets. I love you.” From the movie Happiest Season, released in 2020
“Happiest Season” is a 2020 film directed by Clea DuVall and stars Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, and Mary Steenburgen. Stewart and Davis play two lesbian lovers, Abby and Harper, who have to deal with Harper’s hiding her sexuality from her conservative family.
50. Knowing love
“When you asked if I had known love, I could tell the answer was yes and that it was now.” From the movie Portrait of a Lady on Fire, released in 2019
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (2019) was directed by Celine Sciamma and tells the 18th-century romance of an aristocratic lady and the female artist hired to paint her portrait. It stars Adele Haenel as the aristocrat Heloise and Noemie Merlant as the painter Marianne.
I hope you enjoyed these lesbian quotes regarding love! I couldn’t even begin to tell you which one is my favorite. They’re all so meaningful in different ways and are perfect for a happy marriage. They’re perfect for couple goals!
Some describe the pure happiness of finding your true love, some are sweet quotes for a life partner, and others express endless positive emotions about hopes for the future. In this list of inspiring quotes and sweet nothings, I hope you find the perfect sentiment for your healthy marriage, long-distance relationship, or life partner.
Additional 155 Lesbian Quotes
6 – “Love has no gender.” – Unknown.
7 – “It is not a matter of choosing girls over boys; it’s choosing happiness over society.” – Unknown.
8 – “Girls love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious about it. We don’t guard ourselves like we do with boys. No one trains us to shield our hearts from each other. With girls, it’s total vulnerability from the beginning. Our skin is bare and soft. We love claws and teeth, and the blood is just proof of how much. It’s feral.” – Leah Raeder.
9 – “I am a lesbian. It doesn’t mean I want to be a man. It doesn’t mean I hate men. It just means I am happy being a woman who is attracted to women.” – Unknown.
10 – “Any world which did not have a place for me loving women was not a world in which I wanted to live, nor one which I could fight for.” – Audre Lorde.
61 – You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a lifetime.
62 – She loved her. She loved her back, irrevocably.
63 – She loves me for the way I never leave her and I love her for the thousand secret ways she makes me stay.
64 – “I like a girl. No, I love her.”
65 – “Staring at her and thinking, ‘How did a girl like her end up with a girl like me?’”
66 – “People will stare. Make it worth their while.”
67 – “With a man, pleasure ends at the moment of his orgasm. With a woman, pleasure begins at the point of her orgasm.”
68 – Being able to say, yeah, she’s my girlfriend.
69 – I made Christmas cookies if a lovely girl wanted to come and eat them with me in front of the fireplace with a cup of warm tea….. I wouldn’t say no.
70 – I wanna ruin our friendship. We should be lovers instead.
71 – Being lesbian is fun and games until she won’t kill the spider either.
72 – It’s“spooky season” and you know what’s spooky? The fact that I don’t have anyone to do cute lesbian shit with.
73 – When straight girls complain about how hard it is to find someone to date I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
74 – I’m living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.
75 – I’ve been embraced by a new community. That’s what happens when you’re finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.
106 – Eat Me. I’M Pretty Damn Delicious.
107 – I’M Not As Naughty As You Think. I’M Way Worse.
108 – I Was Once A Tomboy, Now I’M A Full Grown Lesbian.
109 – My Slit Gets Its Own Heartbeat Whenever I’M Around You.
110 – Love Is Such An Amazing Feeling That These Lesbian Love Quotes Can’t Express Fully
111 – “Love who your heart wants, not what your eyes want. Don’t worry about what others say or think. This love is yours, not theirs.” – Unknown.
112 – “No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.” – Adrienne Rich.
113 – “Girls love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious about it. We don’t guard ourselves like we do with boys. No one trains us to shield our hearts from each other.
114 – With girls, it’s total vulnerability from the beginning. Our skin is bare and soft. We love with claws and teeth and the blood is just proof of how much. It’s feral.” – Leah Raeder.
115 – “ Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.” – Adrienne Rich.
116 – “Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?” – James Baldwin
117 – “If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.” – Zanele Muholi
118 – “I am proud, that I found the courage to deal the initial blow to the hydra of public contempt.” – Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
119 – “It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.”– Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
120 – “Every LGBTQ+ refugee has a unique situation—but the fear and pain they endured before coming to Canada is universal.” – Arsham Parsi
136 – “Love is a human experience, not a political statement.” — Chester Minnit
137 – “The only choice I made was to be myself.” — Doris Shutt
138 – “Do you like boys or girls? YES.” — Heywood U Cuddleme
139 – “Homophobia has a cure: Education.”
140 – “Love is too beautiful to be hidden in the closet.” — Holly Wood
141 – The power of a woman + a woman = infinite love.
142 – I did not fall in love with you, your love pushed me to it.
143 – Women are born to love and care for others, so this love was destined from our start.
144 – A softer touch I could not know than the love of a woman like you caressing my soul.
145 – Woman to woman, heart to heart, there is no force strong enough to tear our love apart.
146 – Some say my loving you is wrong, but I love you because it feels so right.
147 – This love we share is real even if others can’t deal.
148 – Our love transcends hate because you are my soul mate.
149 – I am proud to love you as your love inflates my pride.
150 – Love like mine is reserved for a (man or woman) like you because no one else is deserving.
151 – Life is full of choices, Loving you isn’t one of them – I have no control over that.
152 – I’d like to reroute all pride parades and bring my love to you in the form of a joyous celebration.
153 – I have waited this long to love you in the open, I can wait an eternity to have you in my arms again.
154 – The world may be driving a wedge between us, but it only motivates our love to hold on tighter.
155 – My love is like a rainbow where one end starts in my heart and the other leads to the treasure that is in yours.
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