Love is a mysterious thing. We often hear people say that they “fell in love at first sight.” But what does that really mean? How can you fall in love with someone without even knowing them? Love is a feeling of strong attachment or admiration and caring for someone or something. When you fall in love, it feels like everything around you is brighter and more beautiful. These falling in love quotes will make you see just how powerful and amazing this emotion truly is!
Sometimes, it’s the little things that make us feel the greatest emotions. Whether it’s a simple gesture or an unexpected comment, these quotes about falling in love will help you remember how special and unique each moment can be.
Unexpected Falling in Love Quotes
- “You had me at hello.” – Dorothy Boyd
- “What a plot twist you were.” – Faraway
- “Love, like destiny, loves surprises.” – Amelia Barr
- “The best love is the one you never saw coming.” – J.B.
- “Your soulmate will be the stranger you recognize.” – R.H. Sin
- “Love comes from the most unexpected places.” -Barbra Streisand
- “The best relationships usually begin unexpectedly.“ – Jelly Wong
- “It was an unexpected love story between the two.” – Marleah Stout
- “Love visits us at any age and often quite unexpectedly.” – Laura Frantz
- “Art, like love, moves the heart in unexpected directions.” – Marty Rubin
- “Unexpected love, care, and honor melt your heart.” – Rajgor Suraj Pratap
- “The process of love sometimes means unexpected detours.” – Elizabeth Alraune
- “Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Because I fell in love with you. And I hadn’t calculated for that.“ – Dez Schwartz
- “I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you.” – Michael Faudet
- “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” – Vladimir Nabokov
- “I fell in love with the most unexpected person on the most unexpected time.” – Margott
- “If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.” – Mary Oliver
- “The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations.” – Eli Khamarov
- “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “She knew she loved him when “home” went from being a place to being a person.” – E. Leventhal
- “Sometimes, love comes in the least expected place, in the least expected ways.” – Maria Bastida
- “You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.” – John Green
- “I never knew what love was until you came into my life without any hint, so unexpected.” -Maria Bastida
- “The unexpected things in life are often the most interesting and can impact us greatly.” – Art Hochberg
- “Love comes to you just at the right time the time you never thought it would have.” – Anurag Prakash Ray
- “You see, until I met you, I had only ever experienced desire. Love, never.” – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- “Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.” – Carl Sandburg
- ”You have been in front of me all along that I never expected you were the love of my life.” – Maria Bastida
- “Love happens without reason and explanation, and all we can do when it happens is surrender.” – Lauren Levine
- “I am still thanking the universe for suddenly bringing you to me when I needed you the most.” – Maria Bastida
- “Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it’s very hard to get over.” – Leona Lewis
- “I’m forever grateful for that night we met, it was the beginning of us, and we didn’t even know.” – Breanna Lynn
- “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen
- “Sometimes people are afraid of falling in love because it sometimes comes in a way we never expected.” – Terry Mark
- “When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
- ”You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
- “You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant.” – Rupi Kaur
- “It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other.” – Sean
- “Sometimes people are afraid of falling in love, because it sometimes comes in a way we never expected.” – Terry Mark
- “He looked at me the first day like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.” – Jennifer Elisabeth
- “Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.” – Damon Galgut
- “Love took me by the hand; love took me by surprise; love led me to you, and love opened up my eyes.” – Michelle Branch
- “Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.” – Damon Galgut
- “Its amazing how you can fall in love with a person you didn’t even notice the first time you met them.” – Crystal Sawyer
- “When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.” – Alice Hoffman
- “The best love story is when you fall in love with most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.” – Alfiya Shaliheen
- “It’s amazing how you can fall in love with a person you didn’t even notice the first time you met them.” – Crystal Sawyer
- “Is this how it goes? You fall in love, and nothing seems truly scary anymore, and life is one big possibility?” – Jenny Han
- “I don’t think anyone is ever ready, but when someone makes you feel alive again, it’s kind of worth the risk.” – Nikki Rowe
- “The best love story is when you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.” – Alfiya Shaliheen
- “Love was destined and would strike as true as unexpected lightning on a clear day or never come at all.” – Dean Francis Alfar
- “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” – Albert Einstein
- “Meeting you was fate. Becoming your friend was a choice. But falling in love with you I had no control over.” – Teresa Conroy
- “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu
- “The beauty of love is that, you can fall into it with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.” -Ritu Ghatourey
- “Who would have known that you would be the one for me when we did not even like each other in the first place?” – Maria Bastida
- “He seduced me savagely with his eyes long before the fatal touch of his hand. Either way, I died twice in his presence.” – N. R. Hart
- “I have given the quest for love. Because hopefully love will find me one day. Totally unexpected, astonishing and breathtaking.” – NMC
- “That’s why you don’t look for love. It comes to you just at the right time; the time you never thought it would have.” – MindBootstrap
- “The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone, and you fall in love, and that’s that.” – Woody Allen
- “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Malika E Nura
- “Don’t be afraid to show your feelings to the one that you like so much, express your feelings, and maybe they will like you back.” – Sean Anthony
- “The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren’t looking for it.” -Sarra Manning
- “Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.” – Anna Freud
- “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
- “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” – Charles Dickens
- “Never expected to meet you. When I met you I never expected you to become my everything and more than I could have ever dreamed of.” -Maria Ana Bulquerin
- “Love is not something you go out and look for. Love finds you, and when it does, ready or not, it’ll be the best thing to ever happen to you.” – Ash Sweeney
- “It’s strange but true that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Love can be found in unexpected places. Sometimes we go out searching for what we think we want and we end up with what we’re supposed to have.” – Kate McGahan
- “Love is never finding a hand that perfectly fits yours. It is finding the one who is willing to hold your hands no matter how unfit it may be.” – Nishan Panwar
- “Sometimes we have to hide our feelings because the people we have the feelings for may never understand how much we care about them.” – Akussung Kenneth Prince
- “Love can be found in unexpected places. Sometimes we go out searching for what we think we want, and we end up with what we’re supposed to have.” – Kate McGahan
- “Sometimes we have to hide our feelings, because the people we have the feelings for, may never understand how much we care about them.” – Akussung Kenneth Prince
- “One more secret smile. One more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn’t know I was searching for.” – Becca Fitzpatrick
- “Love comes from the most unexpected places In someone’s eyes you’ve never met. Who wants to get to know you In someone’s smile you can’t forget.” – Barbara Streisand
- “I know it’s early, I know it’s soon, but truth be told, I think I love you. It’s unexpected, out of the blue, but I gotta let you know that I think I love you.” – Dwele
- “You never fall in love by yourself, love captures you. Love comes to you when you don’t need it really, and it comes to an end when you need it the most.” -Farah Mustafa
- “They say the best type of love is unexpected, but they forgot to mention falling in love unexpectedly with someone you can’t have is the most painful.” – Tilicia Haridat
- “You never fall in love by yourself, love captures you. Love comes to you when you don’t need it really, and it comes to an end when you need it the most.” – Farah Mustafa
- “Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.” -Elif Shafak
- “Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.” – D.H. Lawrence
- “Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.” – Elif Shafak
- “Falling in love is like finding a part of you that you didn’t realize was missing, and then suddenly you meet someone who completes you and makes you feel whole.” – Rashida Rowe
- “Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you’ve found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.” – Lawrence Block
- “Love comes from the most unexpected places A love song on the radio You never hear enough of In bars that thrive on loneliness Where people sell their sorrow for your time.” – Kim Carnes
- “The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.” – George Orwell
- “Sometimes I know how it ends before it begins. But you were unexpected. I chased you off the only path I knew, and all I know now is without you, I could never find my way.” – Alicia N Green
- “But today, I fell in love with someone I hardly know. Did I make myself imagine that he could love me so? ‘Cause the feeling was so unexpected I could hardly keep myself collected.” – Diana Ross
- “There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one’s identity by falling in love.” – Lukas Foss
- “Sometimes we find we love things we never thought we wanted. And then we regret that we never wanted them at all. It’s the fear of change, I think, and dread of the unknown.” – Courtney M. Privett
- “I have never felt like this. For once, I’m lost for words. Your smile has really thrown me. This is not like me at all. I never thought I’d know the kind of love you’ve shown me.” – Hayley Westenra
- “The best kind of 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. And that’s what you’ve given me.” – Noah Calhoun
- “Unexpected love. Can’t believe it’s true. Spent my whole world waitin’ Baby what you doing to me? Unexpected love Comin’ into view Didn’t need no invitation Baby, can’t you hear me singing?” – Matt Wertz
- “Life is a journey, and the road we travel has twists and turns which sometimes lead us to unexpected places and unexpected people. But in turn, it always leads us to our destination.” – Igwe Daniel Kelechi
- “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
- “Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change you life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be.” – Ron Hall
- “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment. To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.” – Nancy Mitford
- “I can’t explain chemistry. I really can’t. I haven’t got a clue what it’s all about. It just happens. It’s like falling in love. You can’t explain why you fall in love or explain why it’s this particular person.” -Elaine Stritch
- “It’s funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.” – Steve Maraboli
- “When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it’s a very special thing. What’s familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn’t happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they’re suddenly together.” – Alfre Woodard
- “Falling in love. It’s always something that comes unexpectedly. Suddenly it hits you, and you’re in love. Just like that, it happened that day as well… If that day I hadn’t fallen, I could have never realized how much love this tired heart can pour to someone.” – Asmita
- “I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don’t fall in love as many times as you think you’re going to. And then when you do, it’s really special; it’s really important.” – Julianne Moore
- “This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected– in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.” – Charles Augustus Lindbergh
- “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
- “You can search your whole life trying to find love… But the truth is love cannot be found by a great search but rather by finding your inner self and letting love find you. Your love is out there, they don’t know who they will end up with, but the person they do end up with is the one that can make them the happiest… Because they are meant to be together.” – Tanner Christensen
- “It’s the surprise, the unexpected, the out of control. It turns out that laughter is the only free emotion the only one that can’t be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe that we’re in love because, if we’re kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter explodes like aha! It comes when the punch line changes everything that has gone before, when two opposites collide and make a third, when we suddenly see a new reality. Einstein said he had to be very careful while shaving, because when he had an idea he laughed and he cut himself. Laughter is an orgasm of the mind.” – Gloria Steinem
- “Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building, your brain tells you it is not a good idea, but your heart tells you, you can fly.” – Unknown
- “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
- “Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
- “Falling in love is easy but staying in love is very special.” – Unknown
- “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
- “Falling in love is not a choice. It’s beyond our control.” – Unknown
- “The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” – Julia Roberts
- “Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
- “Love is the missing piece in my life. It’s what I thought about when I woke up this morning, and it’s what I will think of when I fall asleep tonight.” – Unknown
- “Falling in love is easy but staying in love is something special.” – Unknown
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” – Erich Segal
- “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
- “Love is not only something you feel, it’s something you do.” – David Wilkerson
- “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” – Albert Einstein
- “Love is a friendship set on fire.” – Jeremy Taylor
- “Love is not finding someone to live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without.” – Rafael Ortiz
- “Falling in love isn’t so much about the destination, but the journey it takes to get there.” – Unknown
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.” – Unknown
- “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubinstein
- “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” – Blaise Pascal
- “Love doesn’t make the world go round; it makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
- “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
- “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
- “To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.” – Sydney Smith
- “The real power of a man is in the size of the smile of the woman sitting next to him.” – Unknown
- “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
- “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” – Blaise Pascal
- “Two persons in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.” – Milan Kundera
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
- “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
- “The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention.” – Richard Warren
- ֿ”Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” – William Shakespeare
- “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin
- “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” – Andre Breton
Wrapping Up
Falling in love is both a beautiful and complicated experience. We can all use some inspiration to make sure it’s always a loving and positive journey. These 150 unexpected falling in love quotes come from the heart, so let them help you express your deepest feelings of affection!
No matter how long you’ve been with someone or what kind of relationship you’re in, these words will help you express the unique beauty and power of falling in love. Share them with your special someone to show how much they mean to you!
Falling in love is one of life’s greatest joys, so don’t be afraid to share it with the world through these beautiful quotes. You just might find someone else who shares the same sentiment. After all, love is something to be celebrated!
