Falling in love can happen when you least expect it. Even when you think you have your life figured out, cupid’s arrow can strike and completely change your world. When you’re in a fresh romantic relationship, it’s like floating on air. Discovering love unexpectedly is thrilling, and there’s a certain allure to keeping it as your own special secret. These secret unexpected falling in love quotes capture those magical feelings of surprise romance.
Secret Unexpected Falling in Love Quotes”
Falling in love is life’s most beautiful surprise. When you least expect it, someone comes along who steals your heart. The excitement of new love makes you feel like you have a wonderful secret. Here are some quotes about the joy and wonder of unexpected love:
“We met by chance, we loved by choice.”
– Unknown

This quote perfectly captures the serendipity of falling for someone unexpectedly. A destined meeting leads to making the conscious decision to give your heart.
“You were running through my mind all day…I didn’t expect to run into you here!” –
Unknown
A cute and clever take on bumping into your new love when you least expect it.
“Falling in love with you was the easiest thing I have ever done.”
– Unknown
It can seem effortless when love comes easily and quickly. No games, no pretenses – just an overwhelming feeling of adoration.
“I tried to stop myself from falling for you. The heart wants what it wants.”
– Unknown
Sometimes logic tells us not to fall too fast, but the heart has other plans. When that special connection ignites, you simply can’t resist giving in to its enchanting spell.
“I didn’t want to like you. I wanted to love you all along.”
– Unknown
Resisting a new crush never works. Even if you try to avoid it, you’re already falling hard.
Secretly Falling in Love Quotes
Falling in love is an unexpected experience. Even when you try to avoid it, feelings can creep up when you least expect them. Allowing yourself to fall for someone in secret can be thrilling yet agonizing—the clandestine glances, inside jokes, and hidden desires. While it may seem safer to love from afar, eventually the heart wants more. These quotes capture the exhilaration and anguish of secretly falling in love.
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.”
– Shannon L. Adler
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” –
Barbara De Angelis
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
– William Shakespeare

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Bronte
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
– James A. Baldwin
“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
– Sarah Dessen
“Love is like a shadow. If you run from it, it follows you. If you face it, it may leave you.”
– Meher Baba
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle
“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.”
– Jacques Benigne Bossuel
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” –
Helen Keller
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
– James A. Baldwin
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
– James Baldwin
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
– Sarah Dessen
“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.”
– E.E. Cummings
“We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.”
– George Wilhite
“The heart was made to be broken.” –
Oscar Wilde
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
– Albert Einstein
“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.”
– Charles Morgan
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” –
Nicholas Sparks
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Elizabeth Browning
“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”
Unknown
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
– Oscar Wilde

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
– Nora Ephron
Love Quotes for a Secret Crush
Having a secret crush can be equal parts exhilarating and heart wrenching. The excitement of this clandestine affection can make your heart race and knees weak. Yet the uncertainty of whether your feelings will be reciprocated may also fill you with anxiety and longing. These quotes capture the bittersweet emotions that come with harboring a secret crush.
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
– A.A. Milne
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Bronte
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
“True love stories never have endings.”
– Richard Bach
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
– Sarah Dessen
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
– Katharine Lee Bates
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
– William Shakespeare
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.”
– Alfred Tennyson
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
– Victor Hugo
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
James Baldwin
“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
– Mitch Albom
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
– Sarah Dessen
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James A. Baldwin
“The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.”
Jean de la Bruyere
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
– Hermann Hesse

“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
– Leo Christopher
“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
– C. JoyBell
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'” –
Erich Fromm
“A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are.”
– Richard Bach
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
– Sarah Dessen
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
“The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.”
– Jean de la Bruyere
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
– A.A. Milne
Secret Unexpected Falling In Love Quotes
Falling in love when you least expect it can feel like a dream. The flutters of infatuation, electricity of touch, and intimacy of whispers are made more intense by their unforeseen arrival. Though initially the surprise may inspire hesitation, these quotes remind us to embrace unexpected love fully and openly.
“Sometimes someone comes into your life so unexpectedly, takes your heart by complete surprise, and changes your life forever.”
– Unknown
“There is something so incredibly beautiful about two souls meeting, connecting, entwining.”
– L.J. Shen
“Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control.”
– Unknown
“Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
“Love didn’t work by finding the perfect person. It worked by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
– Sam Kean
“Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soulmates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals.”
– Josh Sundquist
“Falling in love with him was like falling off a very, very tall cliff.”
– Becca Fitzpatrick
“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
André Breton
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
– Unknown
“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Franklin P. Jones
“One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without and find that breath is of little consequence.”
– Karen Marie Moning

“The truth is, the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t last. You never really know the person you love until you’ve committed your lives together.”
– Lisa Kleypas
“Love comes so easily to some people. It’s a talent, a gift – like playing the violin or ballroom dancing. I imagine it as a physical thing, a vibration pumping off a person.”
– Laura Dave
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
– Ursula K. LeGuin
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
– Paulo Coelho
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
– Sam Keen
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
– Mother Teresa
“Love is friendship set on fire.”
– Jeremy Taylor
“This love is silent.”
– T.S. Eliot
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
– Albert Ellis
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
– Joseph Campbell
“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Franklin P. Jones
“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
Nora Ephron
“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
– Henry Miller
“Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion.”
– Honoré de Balzac
“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
– Kahlil Gibran
Secretly Love You Quotes
To love someone in secret is to experience the simultaneous joy and anguish of hidden affections. The adoration bubbles within, though it cannot be openly expressed. These quotes encapsulate the complexities of loving someone privately and fully, though not yet out loud.
“The secret of love is in the secret place.”
– Dodinsky
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred Tennyson
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
– William Shakespeare
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
“The worst thing you can do when romantically interested in someone is like them back.” –
Mallory Ortberg
“True love stories never have endings.”
– Richard Bach
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
– Leo Christopher
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
– Katharine Lee Bates
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
– James A. Baldwin
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
– Oscar Wilde
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
– Victor Hugo
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
Sarah Dessen

“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
– Mitch Albom
“The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.”
– Jean de la Bruyere
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
– Katharine Lee Bates
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
– James Baldwin
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.”
– E.E. Cummings
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”
– William Cowper
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
– William Shakespeare
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
– Katharine Lee Bates
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'”
– Erich Fromm
“True love stories never have endings.”
– Richard Bach
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
– James A. Baldwin
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
– Victor Hugo
“The worst thing you can do when romantically interested in someone is like them back.”
– Mallory Ortberg
“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred Tennyson
These quotes perfectly capture the wonder and delight of unexpected romance. There’s nothing better than the giddy thrill of a new relationship that takes you by surprise. Falling in love unexpectedly feels like the best secret – scary and exciting at the same time. When you meet someone destined for you, your heart just knows before your head does.