Read on our selection of beautiful and inspiring unexpected love quotes that capture the essence of romance and the surprise of falling in love.
Love is a powerful emotion that can take many forms, from the slow burn of a long–term relationship to the whirlwind passion of a new relationship. But one of the most beautiful and exciting aspects of love is its unexpectedness.
Falling in love with someone we never expected to meet or feeling emotions we never thought possible can be both thrilling and terrifying. It is this sense of surprise and wonder that is captured in unexpected love quotes.
These quotes celebrate the twists and turns of love, the way it can catch us off guard and turn our world upside down. They come from a variety of sources, from classic literature to modern song lyrics, from famous author to everyday people.
Whether you’re in the midst of an unexpected romance or simply appreciate the power of love, the quotes can inspire and uplift you. Let’s jump in and explore the richness of unexpected love quotes together.
Soulmate unexpected love quotes
From the unexpected ways we meet our soulmates to the unexpected depths of our feelings, our unexpected love quotes will leave you feeling inspired.
Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.
Brian Weiss
You know you’re in love when you stop comparing.
Mason Cooley
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
You only meet someone once in a lifetime, and you should never leave someone who touches your soul more than your body.
Anonymous
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Your soulmate will be the stranger you recognize.
R.H. Sin
Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Leo Tolstoy
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
Deepak Chopra
Love visits us at any age and often quite unexpectedly.
Laura Frantz
Unexpected love quotes for him
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
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
It’s kinda funny how unexpected love and unexpected feelings can come from unimagined and unexpected places.
Anonymous
Love comes from the most unexpected places
In someone’s eyes you’ve never met
Who wants to get to know you
Someone’s smile you can’t forget.
Kim Carnes
Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.
Khaled Hosseini
They say we fall in love with the unexpected, but the truth is that it’s expected in the heart but not the mind.
Anonymous
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
I do love nothing in the world so well as you–is not that strange?
William Shakespeare
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
Unexpected love quotes for her
You see, until I met you, I had only ever experienced desire. Love, never.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The best love story is when you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.
Alfiya Shaliheen
Love comes to you just at the right time; the time you never thought it would have.
Anurag Prakash Ray
The beauty of love is that you can fall into it with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.
Ritu Ghatourey
I never was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete.
John Clare
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
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
We were unexpected lovers
Not just ordinary lovers
Sharing unexpected love
Nights’ true love, true love.
La Bouche
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
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
Quotes about unexpected love
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 is unpredictable, like a ball tossed into a vacuum, you can never expect anything.
Maria Bastida
Sometimes, someone comes into your life, so unexpectedly, takes your heart by surprise, and changes your life forever.
Anonymous
The best love story is when you fall in love with 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 all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Alice Hoffman
Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that’s not love, that you can’t really love someone you don’t know.
Deb Caletti
You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
John Green
Meeting you was fate. Becoming your friend was a choice. But falling in love with you I had no control over.
Teresa Conroy
Love doesn’t seem to follow a plan; it’s not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature; an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control.
Deb Caletti
Unexpected love quotes short
Love can take you by surprise, and our selection of short unexpected love quotes celebrates the joy and wonder of this beautiful emotion.
I fell in love with the most unexpected person on the most unexpected time.
Margott
Love comes from the most unexpected places.
Barbra Streisand
The best relationships usually begin unexpectedly.
Jelly Wong
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
You are the most unexpected person that came into my life and that is why I love you so much.
Maria Bastida
Life is full of surprises and one of them is finding the one for you, in the most unexpected manner.
Maria Bastida
Love comes to you just at the right time, the time you never thought it would have.
Anurag Prakash Ray
The process of love sometimes means unexpected detours.
Elizabeth Alraune
Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
Amelia Barr
Unexpected love quotes and sayings
Celebrate the unexpected twists and turns of love with our collection of inspiring and heartwarming unexpected love quotes!
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
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
I never knew what love was until you came into my life without any hint, so unexpected.
Maria Bastida
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
Anna Freud
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
Nancy Mitford
Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.
Jean de la Bruyere
Respect is based on friendship, and friendship is based on love and love is so accidental isn’t it?
Robert E. Lee
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
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
Because I fell in love with you. And I hadn’t calculated for that.
Dez Schwartz
Complicated unexpected love quotes
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
The best kind of relationships begin unexpectedly. When you get the astonished feeling and everything happens so suddenly.
Anonymous
I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight, if it’s wrong to love you then my heart just won’t let me be right.
Mariah Carey
Sometimes, someone comes into your life, so unexpectedly, takes your heart by surprise and changes your life forever.
Anonymous
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Enemies turning into lovers is always a surprising plot twist in every fairy tale story.
Anonymous
Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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 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
Quotes about finding love unexpectedly
I have never given up the quest to find love. Because hopefully love will find me one day. Totally unexpected, astonishing and breathtaking.
Anonymous
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 your life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be.
Ron Hall
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
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.
Mary Oliver
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens
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
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
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu
When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
I’m forever grateful for that night we met, it was the beginning of us, and we didn’t even know.
Breanna Lynn
Final thoughts
These unexpected love quotes capture the beauty and mystery of falling in love. Whether with someone we never expected to meet or feeling emotions we never thought possible. They remind us that love can take us on a journey that makes love so magical and exciting.
Allow our curated selection of unexpected love quotes become a treasure trove of wisdom and beauty of love. Keep them close to your heart and let them guide you on a journey through the wild and wonderful world of love.
Hope you have enjoy exploring the world of unexpected love quotes as much as we have. If you have found a quote that resonates with you, share it with someone you care about. Thank you for joining me on this journey, and we hope they have brought a little bit of joy and inspiration into your life.
At the end, unexpected love can be one of the most exhilarating and transformative experiences in life. It can catch you off guard, challenge your assumptions, and open up new possibilities that you never imagined were possible.
If you find yourself on the cusp of an unexpected love story, take a leap of faith and see where it takes you. And if you’re already in the midst of an unexpected romance, hold onto the wonder of this beautiful moment. And allow yourself to be open to all the surprises that love has in store for you.
Together, let celebrate the beauty and power of love in all its forms.