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Love letters in the sand: Beach love quotes for couples

Love is as vast as the ocean, as infinite as grains of sand. These beach love quotes meld the magic that is the beach and love into one.

A happy couple walking together at the beach, after reading these beach love quotes

The beach is one of my favorite places. The color of the sea in all its moods, the golden sand or the grey pebbles, but most of all, the sound of the waves crashing on the shore.

On still nights when the tide is high, I can hear them from our bedroom.

Right now, as I’m writing this post from our RV parked up by the beach in Papamoa, New Zealand, the sound is the backdrop to the clicking of keys.

Much like summer and sunsets, the beach to me is associated with love and romance.

Long walks hand in hand.

Making out with the sun beading sweat on your skin.

Bonfires in the evening looking at his face glowing from the light of the flames..

And because I’m an ex-English teacher, I love nothing more than to find quotes from literature that express so eloquently thoughts I can’t capture in my own words about what happens when the beach and love come together.

These romantic beach quotes are my offering to you.

They make great captions on your pics, notes in a card, or simply words to enjoy.

(You might also like these summer love quotes).

A couple looking at each other intimately, with the text overlay It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world…on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves. - Anne Rice: Beach love quotes

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world…on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves. – Anne Rice

Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea, then lays you on the beach again… You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone. – Amy Tan

In the summer, we write life’s summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach.- Debasish Mridha

I think love is kind of like those waves out there,” she said. “You ride one in to the beach, and it’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever felt. But at some point the water goes back out; it has to. And maybe you’re lucky-maybe you’re both too busy to do anything drastic. Maybe you’re good as friends, so you stay. And then something happens-maybe it’s something as big as a baby, or as small as him unloading the dishwasher-and the wave comes back in again. And it does that, over and over. I just think sometimes people forget to wait. – Erica Bauermeister

A couple are like two pebbles that are next to each other on a beach. They will have rough edges and rub each other the wrong way initially. But as they spend time together and the waves pound them, the edges rub off and they will seem made for each other. – Farahad Zama

A woman being carried by the man at the beach, with the text overlay There is an invisible red thread between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years - across oceans and lifetimes - Jennifer Elisabeth: Beach love quotes

There is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years – across oceans and lifetimes. – Jennifer Elisabeth

When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of thanks, sending all the stories of love inside them out in a fleet of bottles all across the oceans of the world. – Francesca Lia Block

(You might also like these Kiss quotes for lovers).

A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven. – H. Jackson Brown Jr

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. – Jennifer Donnelly

When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can’t say in real life. – Jenny Han

A couple kissing by the beach, with the text overlay I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach. - Michael Faudet: Beach love quotes

I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach. – Michael Faudet

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. – Jonathan Safran Foer

When you’re in love, the world is brighter. Sunnier. The air smells flowerier, and your hair is silkier, and suddenly you find yourself smiling at babies and strangers and old couples walking down the beach holding hands. – Jess Rothenberg

[A real love story] is like being two pebbles on a beach. You start off individual shapes and then the weather and proximity means you rub the rough spots off so in the end you’re smooth with a patina that only echoes one other person. – Lily Morton

I lived for those long casual walks down the beach and the sight of her small footprints in the glistening wet sand. – Pat Conroy

(You might also like these couple travel quotes).

A couple walking along the beach, with the text overlay You all want to know what my dream is? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. - Michelle Bachelet: Beach love quotes

You all want to know what my dream is? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. – Michelle Bachelet

The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.
Robert Frost

May your love for me be
like
the scent of the evening sea

drifting in
through a quiet window

so i do not have to run
or chase or fall
… to feel you

all i have to do
is
breathe.

Sanober Khan

We’ll love each other until the end of love, hand in hand, we’ll gaze at the sea, the sea that begins and ceases and then again begins, the pounding of the surf, the flow of water, the flow of light coming in new every day. – Sophie Divry

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. – William Goldman

A happy couple holding each other's hands while running at the beach, with the text overlay When you fall in love, it is discovering the ocean after years of puddle jumping - Sarah Kay: Beach love quotes

When you fall in love, it is discovering the ocean after years of puddle jumping. – Sarah Kay

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These beach love quotes connect in words what’s often connected in our hearts – soft sand, ocean waves, and a love as endless as the horizon.

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