We all have our first love. For most of us, first love is our very first emotional relationship that also involves a lot of memorable firsts. We tend to invest all of our time and effort for our first love. Being with our first love involves a lot of silly arguments but we always find a way to patch things up before the day ends.
However, to be in a relationship with your first love does not really guarantee a happy ending. When the relationship ends, we usually refer to our first love as “The one that got away.” The truth is, sometimes love is not enough for a relationship to last. One of the reasons is that we unknowingly took the love for granted thinking nothing will make that person leave. But just like plants, we need to water the relationship and give it its much-needed sunlight to keep it alive.
Below are over 100 first love quotes. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
First Love Quotes
1. 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
2. Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season? – Magenta Periwinkle
3. I have never been in love before,” Julian said. “You’re my first-and you’ll be my only. – L.J. Smith
4. 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,
5. 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
6. The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last. – Daína Chaviano
7. I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time. – Shannon A. Thompson
8. First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. – George Bernard Shaw
9. You can’t let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that’s what it is – self-esteem. You need to first love yourself before you have anybody else love you. – Winnie Harlow
10. Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. – Bertrand Russell
11. 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
12. It’s true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris. – Caitriona Balfe
13. My first love was basketball. – Stan Smith
14. Everybody has their first love. I think it goes back to being in love with the idea of being in love. Everybody wants love, and your first love is special. You’ve never experienced anything like that. It’s good to have a fond memory of it. – Meaghan Jette Martin
15. 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
16. The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous. – Maya Angelou
17. A first love always occupies a special place. – Lee Konitz
18. When everything happens to you when you’re so young, you’re very lucky, but by the same token, you’re never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same. – Lauren Bacall
19. You get over your first love by falling in love with something new. – Mo Ibrahim
20. Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love. – Eric Kandel
21. 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 the 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
22.You can’t let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that’s what it is – self-esteem. You need to first love yourself before you have anybody else love you. – Winnie Harlow
23. I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second. – Nina Simone
24. We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition. – Roger Ebert
25. Journalism doesn’t have to be your first love… or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can’t think of anything better to do with your life, that it’s this or the abyss. But once you get going it helps if you love it. – Robert Krulwich
26. My first love was singing. It was the first thing that really felt like it was a part of me. It’s just in my blood. And acting came sort of out of singing because I did a lot of musical theater. – Evan Rachel Wood
27. Video games are probably my first love. – Charlie Brooker
28. She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves. – James Weldon Johnson
29. Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game. I still love it to this day. – J. J. Watt
30. Soccer is my first love. I’ve been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void. – Kyle Schmid
31. Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I’m bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week. – Amanda Seyfried
32. First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment. – Maximilian Schell
33. My degree is in biology, and it will always be my first love. Evolution, ecology, genetics – they were the textbooks I was devouring as a teenager, and it was there that my love of science grew. – Elise Andrew
34. We should educate all Party members and other working people to become genuine patriots who first love their parents, spouses, and children and further sincerely shed sweat and dedicate their all to spruce up their homes, villages and workplaces so that they are better than others’ and add lustre to their country, their motherland. – Kim Jong-un
35. First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. – Honore de Balzac
36. I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion. – Solange Knowles
37. My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way. – Robert Carlyle
38. Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed of what I think of now, though I didn’t think of then, as a kind of debatable beauty. – John Burnside
39. World records at 19. I don’t want that. Later, yes. And when it comes, I’ll learn to live with it, but it won’t be my first love. – Steve Prefontaine
40. Ilaiyaraaja is my most favorite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success he is in my blood. – Dhanush
41. I didn’t get a lot of attention from my dad when I was young. That’s a big part of it for girls. Because your dad is the first love of your life. If he doesn’t put you on his lap and give you a pet, you do end up not really liking yourself that much. – Dolores O’Riordan
42. I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him. – Caroline Leavitt
43. Being on ‘Whitney’ is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There’s an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I’ll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love. – Chris D’Elia
44. Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. – Harry Mathews
45. My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor. – Carl Weathers
46. At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen. – Malaika Arora Khan
47. Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy. – Adam Shankman
48. I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music. – Doc Watson
49. When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it. – Patrick Dempsey
50. Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse. – Franco Nero
51. Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer. – Gerard Way
52. My first love was singing and I had no time for boys. – Christina Aguilera
53. My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people’s projects. – Missy Elliott
54. There are multiple ways I express myself. Music is my first love and will always come first. But, there are other areas and industries I’m interested in that reflect different aspects of my lifestyle. – G-Eazy
55. I haven’t had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5. – Rupi Kaur
56. I’ll say initially acting was my first love, and that’s what I pursued. But then, so far as even my first day on a film set, and just watching how things were set up, I just said, ‘I think I want to be in charge.’ I am very much type-A. I am a bit of a control freak. – Chris Evans
57. I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love. – Carol Burnett
58. 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
59. We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. – Jesse Jackson
60. My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard. – Jane Lynch
61. 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
62. My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle. – Ariel Sharon
63. It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don’t have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress. – Sienna Miller
64. I’ve never really done acting before, ’cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back. – Maisie Williams
65. 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
66. A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that, he begins to bunch them. – H. L. Mencken
67. Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing. – Dick Van Dyke
68. That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It’s where I wanted to be when I was three years old. – Debra Messing
69. I love my mother. She’s my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor. – Missy Elliott
70. No one forgets their first love. You’re experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine and that obsession with one another for the very first time in your life, so it makes it that much cuter. – James Marsden
71. I think a lot of people still fantasize about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship. – Sophie Kinsella
72. Jazz was my first love. – Frankie Valli
73. 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
74. Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me. – Harbhajan Singh
75. I’ve been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it. – Steven Seagal
76. I’ve always wanted to do something for the defense forces – I’ve always said that the Army always has been my first love. It’s about what they do selflessly for the country. – Gautam Gambhir
77. Medicine, you see, 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 but life plus? So I write about life. – Abraham Verghese
78. I minored in creative writing in college, and I’ve played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love. – Gene Luen Yang
79. Comedy’s my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn’t really change the method of acting. – Emma Stone
80. I grew up on theater, and honestly, I’m trying to figure out a way with a family and kids and living in Los Angeles to get back to the stage because it is my first love. – Matt Bomer
81. 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 sceptic, an ardent zealot. – E.A. Bucchianeri
82. 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
83. There’s no love like the first. – Nicholas Sparks
84. 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,
85. The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color — oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples. – Anna Godbersen
86. 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,
87. 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
88. Before we belonged to anyone else, we were each others. – Elizabeth Noble
89. Maybe we tried to leave as many memories of ourselves with each other because we knew one day we wouldn’t be together anymore. – Makoto Shinkai
90. Isn’t it supposed to be like this?” He smiled. “The glory of first love, and all that. It’s incredible, isn’t it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?”. “Very different,” I agreed. “More forceful than I’d imagined. – Stephenie Meyer
91. Since he knew things at the beginning, maybe at the end he knew things too. That we had gone as far as chance would take us. That nothing is more sacred than youth or more hopeful than turning yourself over to someone and saying ~ I have this time, it is not a long time, but it is my best time and my best gift, and I give it to you. When I revisit my youth, I re-visit you. – Hilary Thayer Hamann
92. While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn’t sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn’t such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all. – E.A. Bucchianeri
93. Did I think he was “the one?” Iʼll never know. At sixteen, everyone is “the one.” – K.A. Tucker
94. 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 and you become a person and why. – John Green
95. That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person. – Sarah Dessen
96. First loves can fuck you up. – Tara Kelly
97. Sometimes we have to behave indifferently towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different. – Michael Bassey Johnson
98. 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
99. Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance. – Oscar Wilde
100. 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
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. 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
103. It’s like trying to describe what you feel when you’re standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it’s like. – Jack Schmitt
104. Theatre was my first love. I can’t take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn’t want to. To me, it’s home. – Jim Parsons
105. A first love is something that lasts forever in your heart. It’s something that marks you. – Elodie Yung
106. I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting, and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that’s my main career, it really is. – Danica McKellar
107. When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn’t what I was picked for at first, for films and TV. – Olivia Wilde
108. 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
109. The future for me is already a thing of the past. You were my first love and you will be my last. Bob Dylan
110. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be. – Nicholas Sparks