71 Taylor Swift Quotes & Lyrics about Love (2023)

Enjoy our favorite Taylor Swift quotes and lyrics plus celebrate the release of her album Folklore.

Taylor has millions of fans that have followed her as she has evolved over the years. Each album has its own unique flavor and her special way with words resonates with many at different points in their own lives.

Her greatest talent is to experience feelings and be precise in describing what that looks and feels like in her own poetic way. The latest album is perfect for a late summer or fall escape.

We put together our favorite inspirational Taylor Swift quotes that are insightful for love and relationships.

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Taylor Swift quotes

Below are lyric excerpts from songs on Folklore

1. But I knew you’d linger like a tattoo kiss

I knew you’d haunt all of my what-ifs

The smell of smoke would hang around this long

‘Cause I knew everything when I was young

I knew I’d curse you for the longest time

Chasing shadows in the grocery line

I knew you’d miss me once the thrill expired

And you’d be standing in my front porch light

And I knew you’d come back to me

You’d come back to me

And you’d come back to me

And you’d come back

― Taylor Swift (Cardigan)

2. I think I’ve seen this film before

And I didn’t like the ending

You’re not my homeland anymore

So what am I defendin’ now?

You were my town

Now I’m in exile seein’ you out

I think I’ve seen this film before

– Taylor Swift (Exile)

3. Sweet tea in the summer

Cross your heart, won’t tell no other

And though I can’t recall your face

I still got love for you

Your braids like a pattern

Love you to the moon and to Saturn

Passed down like folk songs

The love lasts so long

– Taylor Swift (Seven)

4. Even on my worst day

Did I deserve, babe

All the hell you gave me?

‘Cause I loved you

I swear I loved you

Till my dying day

– Taylor Swift (My Tears Ricochet)

5. But I can see us

Lost in the memory

August slipped away into a moment in time

‘Cause it was never mine

And I can see us twisted in bedsheets

August sipped away

Like a bottle of wine

‘Cause you were never mine, mine

– Taylor Swift (August)

6. And I just wanted you to know

That this is me trying (Maybe I don’t quite know what to say)

I just wanted you to know

That this is me trying

At least I’m trying

– Taylor Swift (This is me trying)

7. And that’s the thing about illicit affairs

And clandestine meetings

And longing stares

It’s born from just one single glance

But it dies and it dies and it dies

…a million little times

– Taylor Swift (Illicit affairs)

8. Time

Wondrous time

Gave me the blues and then purple pink skies

And it’s cool

Baby with me

And isn’t it just so pretty to think

All along there was some

Invisible string

Tying you to me?

– Taylor Swift (Invisible string)

Taylor Swift quotes from songs

9. “Romeo save me, I’ve been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my head? I don’t know what to think.”― Taylor Swift

10. “Shake it Off”― Taylor Swift

11. “But I miss screamin’ and fightin’ and kissin’ in the rain and it’s 2 a.m. and I’m cursin’ your name. You’re so in love that you act insane, and that’s the way I loved you.”― Taylor Swift

12. “The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it’s beautiful, wonderful, don’t you ever change.”― Taylor Swift

13. “I’m taking pictures in my mind so i can save them for a rainy day…”― Taylor Swift

14. “I could wait patiently, but I really wish you would:

Drop everything now, meet me in the pourin’ rain,

Kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain;

Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile

Hit me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down,

Give me somethin’ that’ll haunt me when you’re not around;

Cause I see sparks fly whenever you . . . smile.”― Taylor Swift

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14. “And I’m dying to know, is it killing you like it’s killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.”― Taylor Swift

15. “I’ve found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you’re supposed to be.”― Taylor Swift

16. “So It’s Gonna Be Forever or It’s Gonna Go Down In Flames

You Can Tell Me When It’s Over, If the High Was Worth the Pain.”― Taylor Swift

17. “I met you as a stranger. Now I have you as a friend. I hope we meet on our next walk of life where our friendship never ends.

I may not be the most important person in your life but I just hope that when you hear my name you smile and say that’s my friend!!!”― Taylor Swift

18. “The battle’s in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you’d rather love than fight.”― Taylor Swift

19. “I took a chance, I took a shot

And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are”― Taylor Swift

20. “This life’s sweeter than fiction.”― Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift quotes & lyrics

21. “And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they’ll never stop doing, I think it’s fearless to stop believing them. It’s fearless to say “you’re not sorry” and walk away.― Taylor Swift

22. “Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.”― Taylor Swift

23. “Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That’s the best advice I could ever give someone.”― Taylor Swift

24. “You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don’t like yourself, you’ll never be truly happy.”― Taylor Swift

25. “So don’t you worry your pretty little mind, people throw rocks at things that shine, and life makes love look hard. The stakes are high, the water’s low, but this love is ours.”― Taylor Swift

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26. “We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”― Taylor Swift

27. “You can’t have a better tomorrow, if you keep thinking about yesterday.”― Taylor Swift

28. “I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past, I want it to be in the future.”― Taylor Swift

29. “Sparks Fly whenever you smile!”― Taylor Swift

30. “Never forget the essence of your spark!”― Taylor Swift

31. “I’m only me when I’m with you.”― Taylor Swift

32. “Giving up doesn’t always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go”― Taylor Swift

33. “Just because something is over doesn’t mean it wasn’t incredibly beautiful. Because another lesson I’ve learned is not all stories have a happy ending and you have to learn how to deal with that.”― Taylor Swift

34. “Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be that girl who never backed down.”― Taylor Swift

35. “I think there’s something so attractive about mystery. There’s something so attractive about the chase. And the bad guy … bad boys know how to keep the chase going throughout an entire relationship because you never know if you completely have them or not. That’s why they’re so hard to get over.”― Taylor Swift

Inspirational Taylor Swift Quotes

36. “Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.”― Taylor Swift

37. “To me, Fearless is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.”― Taylor Swift

38. “I don’t know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.”― Taylor Swift

39. “You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.”― Taylor Swift

40. “Happiness isn’t a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it.”― Taylor Swift

41. “You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have to learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.”― Taylor Swift

42. “Just be yourself, there is no one better.”― Taylor Swift

43. “The blame is on me…I knew you were trouble when you walked in..”― Taylor Swift

44. “We are never out of the woods, because we are always going to be fighting for something.”― Taylor Swift

45. “Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.”― Taylor Swift

46. “People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”― Taylor Swift

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47. “It’s not our job to make people like us if they don’t want to. It’s not our job to change people. That’s beyond our control. But what you CAN control is how you respond to it.”

― Taylor Swift

48. “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”― Taylor Swift

49. “I don’t think you should wait. I think you should speak now.”― Taylor Swift

50. “There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you… ”― Taylor Swift

51. “It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love”― Taylor Swift

52. “Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you’ll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying ‘I could’ve, but it’s too late now.”― Taylor Swift

53. “I want to build a life with someone that’s based on their dreams as well as my dreams. I think that the idea of finding another person to share with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life.”― Taylor Swift

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54. “There are times when I’m caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, “Please feel good; please feel better; everything’s okay; you’re fine; things aren’t falling apart; take a second; get back to a place where you realize that you don’t actually have real problems.” That happens. You never know when those tables are gonna turn… For me, confidence is something that can come crashing down in one second.”― Taylor Swift

55. “Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you’ll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.”― Taylor Swift

56. “Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you’ll have the time of your life.”― Taylor Swift

57. “In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.”― Taylor Swift

58. “Without your past, you could never have arrived-so wondrously and brutally, By design or some violent, exquisite happenstance…here.”― Taylor Swift

59. “In any relationship each person should support the other; they should lift the other up.”― Taylor Swift

60. “Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you’ve had a bunch of bad days and there’s different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.”― Taylor Swift

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61. “Never believe anyone who tells you that you don’t deserve what you want.”― Taylor Swift

62. “I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.”― Taylor Swift

63. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”― Taylor Swift

64. “Be like a snake. Be nice to everyone, unless someone steps on you.”― Taylor Swift

65. “But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That’s why I write these songs. Because I think love is fearless.”― Taylor Swift

66. “My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that’s kinda how I approach everything.”― Taylor Swift

67. “I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn’t speak up. When we didn’t say “I love you.” When we should’ve said “I’m Sorry.” When we didn’t stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help.”― Taylor Swift

68. “Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful…You don’t have to be like everybody else. In fact I don’t think you should.”― Taylor Swift

69. “Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear”― Taylor Swift

70. “The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.”― Taylor Swift

71. “Love will find you when you least expect it.”― Taylor Swift

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