111 Beautiful First Love Quotes To Express Your Appreciation

Nobody ever goes through life without falling in love at some point. It can be very rewarding and life-changing, but it can also be very painful and break your heart. Our first love can make us feel many things, and it often lives with us long after the romantic connection is over. The way we feel when we fall in love for the first time is very unique and can often last a lifetime.

A great place to start when you want to show how you feel is with some of the best expressions about your first love. These 111 beautiful first love quotes of Loveable will make you brighten and remember that sweet, innocent time. They include well-known lines about young love and wise words from famous authors. Feeling the joy, excitement, and desire of your first love? These words can help you recall your own.

1. "The magic of our first love is our ignorance that it can never end." —Benjamin Disraeli

2. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves" – Victor Hugo

3. “Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.” ― Tim McGraw.

4. “Before we belonged to anyone else, we were each other's.” ― Elizabeth Noble, The Way We Were

5. “I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.” ―Sachin Tendulkar

6. “Men always want to be a woman's first love ― women like to be a man's last romance.” – Oscar Wilde

7. “That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.” — Sarah Dessen

8. "First love is a kind of vaccination that immunizes a man from catching the disease a second time." —Honoré de Balzac

9. “The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.” ― Daina Chaviano,

10. "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

11. “My daddy said that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.” ―Nicholas Sparks

12. “Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.” ―Charles Dickens

13. “No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? ”― Albert Einstein

14. “My first love, I’ll never forget, and it’s such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not forever, because it is forever.” — Rashida Jones

15. "The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color—oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples..." —Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

16. “Most people are scared of the unknown, but the experience of first love is always an exception. It’s called falling in love for a reason – people just fall into their first romance with no thoughts or reasons.” ― Daina Chaviano,

17. “A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that, he begins to bunch them.” — H. L. Mencken

18. “A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.” ― Charles Dickens

19. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope" – Maya Angelou

20. “The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self―satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it's a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.” ―Himani Shivpuri

21. “First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.” ―Maximilian Schell

22. “First loves are frequently awful, possibly because they are the first and have no conscious past into which they could be assimilated. ”- Unknown

23. "Your first love isn't the first person you give your heart to―it's the first one who breaks it." ―Lang Leav, Sad Girls

24. "A great love is never too small to be noticed, and never too great to be forgotten" – Unknown

25. “Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.” ―Kailash Kher

26. "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." —Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

27. "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" – Unknown

28. “When you're a front man for a band, there's nowhere to hide. It took me a long time to get used to that. But music is my first love. I started singing when I talked.” ―Gloria Estefan

29. "One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love." ―Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy

30. "Every young girl tries to smother her first love in possessiveness. Oh what tears and rejection await the girl who imbues her first delicate match with fantasies of permanence, expecting that he at this gelatinous stage will fit with her in a finished puzzle for all the days." —Gail Sheehy

31. 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." – Unknown

32. “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.” – Unknown

33. "It's amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and you can't remember how you ever lived without them" – Unknown

34. "Love is the last and most serious of the diseases of childhood." —Unknown

35. “Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.” —Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

36. “Men always want to be a woman’s first love - women like to be a man’s last romance.” — Oscar Wilde.

37. "The beauty of first love is that it teaches you how to love and how to let go" – Unknown

38. "When a man is in love for the first time he thinks he invented it." —Unknown

39. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return" – Moulin Rouge

40. "I think a lot of people still fantasize about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship." ―Sophie Kinsella

41. "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." – Unknown

42. "First love is a kind of vaccination which saves man from catching the complaint the second time" – Honore de Balzac

43. “I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.” ―Selena Gomez

44. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."―Helen Keller

45. "A heart that loves is always young."―Greek Proverb

46. "First loves are often terrible, probably because they are first and there is no conscious history into which they may be absorbed." ―Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays

47. "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

48. "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."―Antoine de Saint―Exupery

49. “Maybe we tried to leave as much memories of ourselves with each other because we knew one day we wouldn't be together any more.” ― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second

50. “Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.”― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

51. "Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile."―Elizabeth Browning

52. “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. – Unknown

53. "In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove;
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." ―Leo Buscaglia

54. "The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival." ―Richard Garnett

55. “Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

56. “Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the skeptic, an ardent zealot.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

57. “Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.” ― Henry Louis Mencken.

58. "Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. Women have a more subtle instinct about things: What they like is to be a man's last romance." —Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

59. "No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." ―Francois Mauriac

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60. “You are my first love – the first and last thing on my mind each and every day of my life.”―Unknown

61. "Love is always bestowed as a gift ― freely, willingly, and without expectation... We don't love to be loved; we love to love." — Leo Buscaglia

62. "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."―Unknown

63. “Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.”― Sarah Dessen, That Summer

64. "True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."―Francois de La Rochefoucauld

65. "We conceal it from ourselves in vain: we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it." — Blaise Pascal

66. “First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.” – George Bernard Shaw

67. “Something about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and graffitied. When it ends, no amount of scrubbing will purge the scrawled oaths and sketched images, but sooner or later, you find that there’s space for someone else, between the words and in the margins.” ― Tammara Webber, Where You Are

68. “I have never been in love before," Julian said. "You're my first―and you'll be my only.”― L.J. Smith, The Hunter

69. I have been looking you since I heard my first love story. Now I realize you were in my heart all along. – Unknown

70. “He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again ― the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable” ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

71. “I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.”― Christina Aguilera.

72. “Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.” ― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

73. “First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, is followed by regretful regret.” – Helen Hunt Jackson

74. “I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.” – Unknown

75. “The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.” ―Nicholas Sparks

76. “The first time you fall in love, it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard you try, the feeling never goes away.” – Unknown

77. “When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself― is that what [love is]?” ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

78. “The first time you fall in love you build your dreams around the person you love.” – Unknown

79. “I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.” ― Nicholas Sparks

80. “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. – Unknown

81. “You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.” ―Brandi Carlile

82. “I love you. I can’t remember when I fell in love with you but very naturally, I had fallen in love with you before I knew it. The first time I met you, you were a strong and kind boy. You always protected me.” ― Makoto Shinkai

83. "Love is the state in which man sees things; most widely different from what they are." ―Nietzsche

84. “We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.” ― Roger Ebert

85. “My whole life, baseball was my first Love. I was gonna go play college, but during my senior year I tore my ACL, and college kind of faded away with their offer, which I understand, obviously. That was a dark time in my life.” ― Morgan Wallen.

86. “We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.”― Alexandre Dumas.

87. "The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep." ―Lady Murasaki

88. “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.” – Unknown

89. "I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you." — Ben Folds

90. “You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

91. “The first love is like a seed, once it is planted, it can bloom and flourish forever.” – Unknown

92. “Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, ‘Oh man, this is the stuff.’ It just sounded so raw and honest; gut―bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.” ― Carlos Santana.

93. “My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.” ― Meredith Taylor, Churning Waters

94. “The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color ―― oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...” ― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

95. “If I look back on my life, you can almost tell the story of it through pop songs. Romances as a teenager, your first kiss, first Love, first heartbreak.” ― Keren Woodward.

96. “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.

97. “The future for me is already a thing of the past,
You were my first love and you will be my last” ― Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan

98. "No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."― Alexander Smith

99. “Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

100. “My first love thinks that I’m too young. He doesn’t even know. Wish that I could show him what I’m feeling.” ― Nikka Costa.

101. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.” ―Rumi

102. ”Every young girl tries to smother her first love in possessiveness. Oh what tears and rejection await the girl who imbues her first delicate match with fantasies of permanence, expecting that he at this gelatinous stage will fit with her in a finished puzzle for all the days.” – Gail Sheehy

103. "First love is a kind of wonderful, dizzying intoxication that you never quite get over." ― Unknown

104. I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his. ― Christina Aguilera

105. “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. They are not brave, the days when we are twenty one. They are so full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word.” ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

106. "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

107. “First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.” ― Elizabeth Bowen

108. “Love me like Saturday night, like three glasses of champagne, like the room is spinning, like you're drunk on my love.” ― C.J. Carlyon

109. “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.”― Daphne duMaurier, Rebecca

110. "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

111. "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."― Unknown

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First love is often unforgettable. Whether it's the first time someone calls you their boyfriend or girlfriend, the first pangs of love are often etched into our brains in a random way. Whether it brings dark days or sweet moments, I believe it's a time when we truly live, live to the fullest, live for love, and are willing to die for it.

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