105 Best First Love Quotes To Make You Reminisce

Love is an emotion that is experienced by everyone at some point in life. It can be a deeply fulfilling and rewarding experience but also a source of heartache and pain.

First love can be particularly bittersweet and often stays with us long after the relationship has ended. The feeling of first love can never be replicated, and it can often stay with us for a lifetime.

If you’re looking for a way to express those feelings, a great place to start is with some of the best first love quotes. These quotes below capture the joy, intensity and longing of first love and can be a great way to remind yourself of your own experiences with first love.

Whether you’re looking for words of comfort after a break-up, or want to reflect on the beauty of first love, these quotes can provide the perfect way to express your feelings.

From quotes about young love to words of wisdom from famous authors, these 105 best first love quotes will make you reminisce about the joys and sorrows of first love. They can also remind us how consequential and special first love can be, and how it can shape our lives in ways we never imagined possible.

Inspirational First Love Quotes

Love is one of the most inspiring emotions that a person can experience. The love that is shared between two people in the beginning of their relationship can be particularly inspiring.

There is something special and unique about the first love we all experience. Here are some inspirational first love quotes that may help you tap into the beauty and magic of this emotion. 

• "I know I am in love with you because my reality is finally better than my dreams" – Dr. Seuss

First birthday after death of loved one quotes

• "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves" – Victor Hugo
•  "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds" – Nicholas Sparks
• "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope" – Maya Angelou
• "A great love is never too small to be noticed, and never too great to be forgotten" – Anonymous
• "The beauty of true love is that it is never lost. Even if the person you love is no longer with you, that love will always remain in your heart" – Anonymous
• "The first time you said you love me, my heart overflowed with joy" – Anonymous

First holiday without loved one quotes

• "We try in vain to hide it from ourselves: we must constantly adore something. The feeling can be found in seemingly unrelated situations, and man cannot possible live for a minute without it." – Anonymous
•  "It's amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and you can't remember how you ever lived without them" – Anonymous
• "The beauty of first love is that it teaches you how to love and how to let go" – Anonymous
• "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return" – Moulin Rouge
• "You know when you look at him/her for the first time and experience that feeling you've never had before, you know you've fallen in love with just one look." – Anonymous
• "First love is a kind of vaccination which saves man from catching the complaint the second time" – Honore de Balzac

First love quote

• "First love is an enchantment, a madness, a great joy" – Honore de Balzac
• "First love is filled with innocence and wonder, a time of discovery and adventure" – Anonymous
•  "First love is the best love, and the best love is the one that lasts forever" – Anonymous
• "Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful" – Corinthians
• "My first love was a dream come true, and I never thought it would end" – Anonymous
• "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."-Alexander Smith

First love quotes

• "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."-Helen Keller
• "A heart that loves is always young."-Greek Proverb
• "Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses."-Ann Landers
•  "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• "The first duty of love is to listen."-Paul Tillich
• "If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with."-Anonymous

First love quotes for him

• "The greatest thing you ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."-Moulin Rouge
• "Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do."-David Wilkerson
• "True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• "Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile."-Elizabeth Browning
• "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."-Aristotle
• "Love is not finding someone to live with, it's finding someone you can't live without."-Rafael Ortiz

Love at first sight quote

•  “First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.” – George Bernard Shaw
•  “First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, is followed by regretful regret.” – Helen Hunt Jackson
• “The first time you fall in love, it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard you try, the feeling never goes away.” – Anonymous
•  “The first time you fall in love you build your dreams around the person you love.” – Anonymous
• “Your life will change drastically the first time you fall in love, and no matter how hard you try, the emotion will never leave you.  – Anonymous
• “The first love is like a seed, once it is planted, it can bloom and flourish forever.” – Anonymous

Love at first sight quotes

• “Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. You should lead in moral excellence, in my opinion. I want you to be the first in generosity.” – Anonymous
• “The first love is like a spark that can never be extinguished.” – Anonymous
• “The first love is like a drug – it can be both sweet and painful.” – Anonymous
• “Time truly does seem to stand still when you meet your soul mate. They fail to mention that when it restarts, it moves more quickly to catch up.” – Anonymous
• “I love you. You are the reason I am who I am. No matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the best day of my life. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had. I am yours forever.” – Anonymous
• “The first love is like a poem – it is filled with passion, beauty and emotion.” – Anonymous

Love of first sight quote

• “Every prayer I've ever prayed has found an answer in you. I don't know how I've managed to survive without you for as long as I have since you are a melody, a dream, and a whisper.” – Anonymous
•  “True recklessness is in first love. It will just dump everything into it without thinking, and it will inevitably fail. However, it is because of this experience that we feel the need to rediscover love.” – Anonymous
• “The heart is the location where we live our passions. It is extraordinarily durable despite being fragile and easily broken. It is useless to attempt to trick the heart. Its survival depends on our sincerity.  – Anonymous

Romantic First Love Quotes

First love is a special kind of love that is often remembered fondly and associated with emotion.

Therefore, to express how you feel about your first love, here are some romantic first love quotes that capture the essence of that moment. 

•  "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart." — Helen Keller
•  "If I had to choose between breathing and loving you, I would tell you I loved you with my last breath." — Anonymous
•  "I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more." — Angelita Lim

Love on the first sight quotes

• "Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you've been together, it's all about how much you love each other every day." — Anonymous
• "You're the first thing I think of when I wake up, and the last thing I think of before I go to sleep." — Anonymous
• "When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew." — William Shakespeare
• "Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused." — Paulo Coelho
•  "Love doesn't make the world go round, it makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin P. Jones
•  "The first time I saw you, I knew it was true. That I'd love you forever, and that's what I'll do." — Anonymous

Love yourself first quote

•  "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." — Victor Hugo
•  "To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to be loved by the person you love is everything." — Anonymous
•  "I might have had a first love that ended in heartbreak, but now that I think back on it, I don't think that was true love. Maybe I'll feel it when I get older and have more committed relationships. I'm not entirely sure if I've ever been in love right now." — Anonymous
• "I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you." — Ben Folds
•  "You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible." — Bob Marley
• "I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." — Roy Croft

Love yourself first quotes

• "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever." — Alfred Lord Tennyson
•  “First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever.”- Rosemary Rogers.
• “My initial love was the blues. I immediately thought, "Oh man, this is the stuff," when I saw it. It simply sounded so honest and gut-bucket raw. I then started rebelling after that.” – Anonymous
• “I didn't anticipate you. I didn't anticipate that we would get along. I've done a lot in my life, but falling in love with you is the most incredible thing I've ever done. Never before have I experienced such total acceptance, intense love, and unwavering protection.” – Audrey Hepburn
• “The first time I saw you, I knew it was true. That I’d love you forever, and that’s what I’ll do.” – Anonymous
• “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe

Memory first love quotes

• “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” – The Notebook
• “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Moulin Rouge
•  “When you decide you want to be with someone for the rest of your life, you want that time to pass as quickly as possible.” – Anonymous
• “Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
• “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult
• “There is nothing about your face that I would change since you are wonderful just the way you are.” – Mahatma Gandhi

My first love quotes

Emotional First Love Quotes

First love leaves a lasting impression on our hearts and minds, no matter how much time has passed. 

To honor this special bond, here are some of the most beautiful and inspiring emotional first love quotes:

• “Girls had never been important. I’d had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn’t love, because my first Love was tennis.”- Boris Becker.
•  “The first time you fall in love, it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard you try, the feeling never goes away.”- Anonymous
•  “Everybody remembers their first love. It's even cuter since you're experiencing all those endorphins, dopamine, and obsession with one another for the very first time in your life.”- Anonymous
• “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”- William Shakespeare
• “First love is filled with uncontrollable emotions, a mix of excitement and fear, all at once.”- Anonymous
•  “The best thing about first love is that it never comes back.”- Anonymous

Quotes about first love

•  “Love is a decision, not a feeling, and it’s the same for first love.”- Anonymous
• "As soon as I heard about our first romance, I immediately started hunting for you without realizing how foolish it was. In fact, lovers do not randomly cross paths. They had always been in each other.- Anonymous
• “A man can avoid contracting the ailment a second time by practicing first love, according to the saying”.- Anonymous
• “He smiles at me, and all of a sudden I am seventeen again, the year I realized that love doesn't follow the rules and when I realized that nothing is worth having more than something that is unachievable..”- Anonymous
•  “First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.”- Anonymous
•  “First love is the best kind of love, because it’s completely innocent and naive.”- Anonymous

Quotes about love at first site

• “I couldn't tell you if I fell in love with you the first time I saw you, the second time, the third time, or the fourth time. But I recall the first time I saw you coming my way and understood that, for some reason, the outside world appeared to disappear while I was with you.”- Anonymous
• “First love is the sweetest, but it can be the most painful.”- Anonymous
•  “When your first love occurs when you are so young, you must count yourself fortunate. On the other hand, you will never have that identical experience again. When anything bad happens to you, such as your first love, the second will never be the same." - Anonymous
•  “First love is so hard to forget, because it teaches us what true love really means.”- Anonymous
•  "I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say." — Rebecca
• “First love is a kind of magic that can never be reproduced.”- Anonymous

Quotes about your first love

• "One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love." ―Elizabeth Aston
•  “Falling in love with someone for the first time is a truly magical experience.”- Anonymous
• “First love is an experience that no one can ever take away from you.”- Anonymous
• “My first love is comedy. That is fantastic. You also play comedy in drama. The variation between genres has little effect on acting technique.”- Anonymous
•  “It is an unavoidable truth of human nature that no one can truly appreciate their own beauty or sense their own value unless they have seen it reflected back to them in the mirror of another kind, compassionate person.”- Anonymous
• “First love is something that will always have a special place in your heart.”- Anonymous

Quotes of love at first sight

•  “First love can be the most beautiful and painful experience of your life.”- Anonymous
• “First love is a feeling that never fades away, no matter how much time passes.”- Anonymous
•  “First love is a moment that will always be remembered and cherished.”- Anonymous
•  “First loves are frequently awful, possibly because they are the first and have no conscious past into which they could be assimilated. ”- Anonymous
• "Men aspire to be a woman's first love at all times. That is the crude vanity of them. Women have a subtler instinct about things; they prefer to be a man's final love interest.”- Anonymous
• "I think a lot of people still fantasize about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship." ―Sophie Kinsella

Unexpected love at first sight quotes

• “First love is the most beautiful thing in the world, even if it doesn’t last.”- Anonymous
• “First love is a magical experience, even if it doesn’t last forever.”- Anonymous
•  “Medicine, you know, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine if not life? So I write about life.”- Anonymous
•  "First love is a kind of wonderful, dizzying intoxication that you never quite get over." - Anonymous

Wrapping up

Overall, the 105 best first love quotes above remind us of the potential beauty and power of first love experiences. They open up the possibility of sweet and bittersweet memories and reflect on what can be gained from the experience.

Whether it was the first time you experienced real love or the first time you experienced heartbreak, these quotes can help us think about our first loves more meaningfully. They can also remind us to be open to the possibilities of new love and the joy that comes along with it.