Falling in love often happens when we least expect it.
It’s one of life’s most fun and wonderful surprises.
So in today’s post I’d like to celebrate that by sharing 85 unexpected falling in love quotes.
Uplifting and wise thoughts on happiness, relationships, love and on how your life can one day just turn around and send you into a brand new and exciting chapter of your journey.
I hope you’ll find something inspiring and heartwarming here.
And if you want even more inspiration and uplifting thoughts then check out this post with quotes on the effort one puts into a relationship and this one filled with everything will be OK quotes.
Inspirational Unexpected Falling in Love Quotes
“The beauty of love is that you can fall into it with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.”
Ritu Ghatourey
“One of the most amazing feelings in the world is having someone fall in love with you who you thought you never had a change with. I fell for you unexpectedly, but now I plan to be with you forever. I fell in love with the most unexpected person on the most unexpected time.”
Margott
“Love was destined and would strike as true as unexpected lightning on a clear day or never come at all.”
Dean Francis Alfar
“The best kind of relationships begin unexpectedly. When you get the astonished feeling and everything happens so suddenly.”
Unknown
“The best love story is when you fall in love with most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.”
Alfiya Shaliheen
“Sometimes, someone comes into your life, so unexpectedly, takes your heart by surprise and changes your life forever.”
Unknown
“Love comes from the most unexpected places.”
Barbra Streisand
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?”
William Shakespeare (from Much Ado About Nothing)
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James Baldwin
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Dr. Seuss
Beautiful Unexpected Falling in Love Quotes
“He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn’t want to.”
Nicholas Sparks
“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 a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it’s very hard to get over.”
Leona Lewis
“The greatest relationships are the ones you never expected to be in. The ones that swept you off your feet and challenged every view you’ve ever had. I have given up the quest for love. Because hopefully love will find me one day. Totally unexpected, astonishing and breathtaking.”
NMC
“Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
William Goldman (from The Princess Bride)
“I never knew what love was until you came into my life without any hint, so unexpected.”
Maria Bastida
“You were one of the best surprises love has ever been kind enough to give to me.”
Unknown
“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
“The best thing about love is you unexpectedly fall for those who you never thought would mean the world to you.”
Unknown
“Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.”
Anna Freud
“I did not expect that the person I would fall in love with is the very person I used to hate so much.”
Unknown
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
Charles Dickens (from Great Expectations)
“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 the least expected love comes at the right moment, at the time you are ready.”
Unknown
“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
“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
“Love is like a lost object. If you search too hard, you won’t find it. But if you just forget about it momentarily, it will show up in the most unexpected way.”
Unknown
“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 (from My All)
“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
“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
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heartwarming Unexpected Falling in Love Quotes
“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
“Art, like love, moves the heart in unexpected directions.”
Marty Rubin
“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
“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
“Someday, I know that the right person for me will walk my way and tell me, I love you.”
Unknown
“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
“He was my north, my south, my east and west, my working week and my Sunday rest.”
W.H. Auden
“Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.”
Unknown
“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 (from The Notebook)
“We often go looking for love in expected ways and in some kind of known and expected place. But the reality is often that love in the end blindsides us on a regular Tuesday afternoon.”
Unknown
“Life is full of surprises and one of them is finding the one for you, in the most unexpected manner.”
Maria Bastida
“You can fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time. You can’t explain what it is about them. It’s just the way they take you to a place where no one else can.”
Unknown
“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
“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
Kiersten White
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Honore de Balzac
“I’ve got all I want when it comes to loving you. You’re my only reason, you’re my only truth.”
Leann Rimes (from I Need You)
“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
“You had me at hello.”
Dorothy Boyd (from Jerry Maguire)
Unexpected Relationship Quotes
“Sometimes people are afraid of falling in love, because it sometimes comes in a way we never expected.”
Terry Mark
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.”
Robert Fulghum
“Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”
Emily Brontë (from Wuthering Heights)
“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
“Whenever I’m alone with you, You make me feel like I am home again.”
The Cure (from Lovesong)
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Jung
“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.”
Nicholas Sparks
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
Andre Breton
“Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
Carroll Bryant
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.“
Leo F. Buscaglia
Wise and Helpful Unexpected Falling in Love Quotes
“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
“Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
Leo Buscaglia
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
Anthony Robbins
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.”
Alain de Botton
“When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising.
This can go on and on – series polygamy – until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment.
Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
Tom Robbins
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
Ernest Hemingway
“First and foremost, self-love, and then give love away.”
Katy Perry
“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
“Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
Franklin P. Jones
Short Unexpected Falling in Love Quotes
“The process of love sometimes means unexpected detours.”
Elizabeth Alraune
“Who would have known that our innocent friendship would turn into a blossoming love?”
Unknown
“It was an unexpected love story between the two.”
Marleah Stout
“Sometimes, the most petite expected love comes at the right moment when you are ready.”
Unknown
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
Charles Dickens
“Enemies turning into lovers is always a surprising plot twist in every fairy tale story.”
Unknown
“Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.”
Damon Galgut
“It’s kinda funny how unexpected love and unexpected feelings can come from unimagined and unexpected places.”
Unknown
“I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you.”
Michael Faudet
“They say we fall in love with the unexpected, but the truth is that it’s expected in the heart but not the mind.”
Unknown
“Music to my heart, that’s what you are.”
Selena Gomez (from Love You Like A Love Song)
“The best relationships usually begin unexpectedly.”
Jelly Wong
“You make me want to be a better man.”
Melvin Udall (from As Good As It Gets)
“When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.”
Alice Hoffman
“How do you spell love? You don’t spell it. You feel it.”
A. A. Milne
“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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