Sometimes everyone needs a hug to bring comfort.
We hope you enjoy these 95 emotional hug quotes that we have put together. They aim to remind you of the importance of a big warm cuddle with someone you love. Hugging is said to be very good for the soul, so squeeze your loved ones tighter and allow these quotes about hugs to get you inspired to do so.
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Hug Quotes
1. “A hug makes you feel good all day.” – Kathleen Keating
2. “Hugs are the universal medicine.” – Unknown
3. “A hug for you means I need you. A kiss for you means I love you. A call for you means I miss you.” – Unknown
4. “They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.” – Bil Keane
5. “Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.” – Princess Diana
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6. “Be a love pharmacist: dispense hugs like medicine – they are!” – Terri Guillemets
7. “There’s a long life ahead of you and it’s going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.” – Yoko Ono
8. “Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.” – Leo Buscaglia
9. “A hug is a smile with arms, a laugh with a stronger grip.” – Terri Guillemets
10. “Hug while you can.” – Jay Woodman
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11. “Mama hugs me and I hold her back. Sometimes all you can do is hold on.” – Jasmine Warga
12. “When the right person hugs you, it’s like medicine. I’m so grateful for those few people in my life who are good for my soul.” – Steve Maraboli
13. “I wanted my home to be a haven, like coming in from the cold to a big warm hug.” – Cathy Bramley
14. “Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!” – Drew Barrymore
15. “Hugging” The truest form of giving and receiving.” – Unknown
16. “When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.” – Unknown
17. “Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words.” – Unknown
18. “Some moments can only be cured with a big squishy grandma hug.” – Dan Pearce
19. “Hugs are God’s way of reminding us how much we are loved.” – Gail Lynne Goodwin
20. “Feel the presence of love wrapped up within a hug.” – Robert M. Hensel
21. “The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love every day. You never know when the tragedies of this world may visit your life.” – Kevin Nash
22. “I like hugging who I like to hug and I want to be hugged by whom I want to hug.” – Lady Colin Campbell
23. “Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.” – Leo Buscaglia
24. “I want your hugs, I want your kisses, I want you, all of you.” ― Unknown
25. “I want a hug, not just a normal hug. One of those tight hugs that take my breath away, give me butterflies, and make me smile like crazy.” – Unknown
26. “When I see you I miss your smile, when I see your smile I miss your hug. When I hug you, I want your kiss.” – Unknown
27. “You know you love someone if hugging them makes you fade away from everything else, even on your worst days.” – Unknown
28. “However long a hug lasts, it doesn’t last long enough.” – Kyle Schmalenberg
29. “Today. Love a little deeper, laugh a little louder, and hug your loved ones a little tighter.” – Unknown
30. “When I’m sad, don’t ask me what’s wrong. Just hug me.” – Unknown
31. “Sometimes a hug is an answer when a question is not known.” – Unknown
32. “A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.” – Bil Keane
33. “A hug makes you feel good all day.” – Kathleen Keating
34. “Where I live if someone gives you a hug, it’s from the heart.” – Steve Irwin
35. “They say that love is more important than money, have you ever tried paying your bills with a hug?” – Nishan Panwar
36. “Hug the shore; let others try the deep.” – Virgil
37. “A hug a day keeps the demons at bay.” – German Proverb
38. “A hug is a great gift – one size fits all, and it’s easy to exchange.” – Unknown
39. “With age, you get to a place where you don’t want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.” – Vin Diesel
40. “Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.” – Gina Barreca
41. “A hug is an amazing thing. It’s just the perfect way to show the love we’re feeling but can’t find the words to say.” – Johnny Ray Rider
42. “Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.” – Gina Barreca
43. “I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.” – Ann Hood
44. “Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.” – Bradley Chicho
45. “Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.” – Leo Buscaglia
46. “However long a hug lasts, it doesn’t last long enough.” – Kyle Schmalenberg
47. “A hug is the perfect gift; one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it.” – Unknown
48. “Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
49. “When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.” – Hugh Jackman
50. “There’s nothing like a mama-hug.” – Terri Guillemets
51. “Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.” – Jacques Prevert
52. “I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.” – Naomie Harris
53. “There’s something in a simple hug that always warms the heart. It welcomes us back home and makes it easier to part.” – Johnny Ray Ryder, Jr.
54. “Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
55. “If I see my fans crying, I just want to give them a hug… and tell them I love them.” – Austin Mahone
56. “Sometimes a silent hug is the only thing to say.” – Robert Brault
57. “HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.” – Diana, Princess of Wales
58. “One day someone is going to hug you so tight that all of your broken pieces will stick together.” – Unknown
59. “Getting people where they want to go, reliably and happily, can make or break their ability to succeed in a work endeavor or to hug a family member at an important moment.” – Oscar Munoz
60. “I love meeting people, and I know it’s so difficult for people to come up to me and introduce themselves, so when they do, I’ll grab them and hug them. It makes their day, you know? I love that, and I get positive energy from that.” – Unknown
61. “If you’re angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug – which is all the more reason to do so. It’s hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that’s precisely what happens when we hug each other.” – Walter Anderson
62. “Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.” – Edward Hoagland
63. “Having a child, that’s huge. I get to go home and hug my daughter. That’s the greatest thing in the world.” – Nick Foles
64. “With age, you get to a place where you don’t want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.” – Vin Diesel
65. “A hug is a wonderful thing. It’s a marvelous gift to share. It’s a grand way to say; ‘I care.’ A hug communicates support, security, affection, unity, and belonging. A hug shows compassion. A hug brings delight. A hug charms the senses. A hug touches the soul.” – Unknown
66. “Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter – hug ’em so tight they can’t wiggle” – Lyndon B. Johnson
67. “Laughter with those that understand us is music for the soul. A hug at the right moment and a kind shoulder to lean on, Is the sprinkle of magic that keeps us walking towards hope.” – Mimi Novic
68. “That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.” – Deb Caletti
Hugs and Kisses Quotes
69. “Hugs and kisses are ways to express what cannot be said.” – Kacie Conroy
70. “Hugging and kissing you. Is my most favorite thing to do.” – Unknown
71. “I only want 3 things. See you. Hug you. And kiss you.” – Unknown
72. “Your hugs and kisses are like the stars, that light up my life when things get dark.” – Unknown
73. “A kiss and hug at the same time, from my favorite person in the world, is just the best.” – Unknown
74. “I don’t want much. Just your hugs n kisses, and you.” – Unknown
75. “They invented hugs and kisses to let people know you love them without saying anything.” ― Bil Keane
76. “Hugging you makes my day, kissing you makes my week, and loving you makes my life.” – Unknown
77. “We fight, kiss, hug, text, talk, argue, laugh, smile and love. That’s us.”
78. “If rain drops were kisses, I’d send you showers. If hugs were seas, I’d send you oceans. And if love was a person, I’d send you me.” – Emily Bronte
79. “A hug for you means I need you. I kiss for you means I love you. A call for you means I miss you.” – Unknown
80. “Do you know what love is? It is the most beautiful, comprehensive, divine, pranic energy given to you by God, which you should have experienced. But what did you do? You turned it into mucous and saliva and you call it kisses and hugs and sex.” – Harbhajan Singh Yogi
81. “I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
82. “After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces.” – Francesca Lia Block
83. “I will not play tug o’ war. I’d rather play hug o’ war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.” – Shel Silverstein
84. “I just wanna see you, hold you, touch you, kiss you, cuddle you, love you.” – Unknown
85. “I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She’s a really good snuggler, and she likes to give kisses and hugs.” – Jason Bateman
86. “Love starts with a hug and grows with a kiss.” – Unknown
87. “My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, they’re wanting to kiss and hug me.” – Marilyn Monroe
88. “The best things in life are free. Smiles, hugs, kisses, family, friends, sleep, love, laughter, good memories.” – Unknown
89. “We kiss and hug our kids a lot! And even now when our son lives 3,000 miles away, we talk every day, sometimes several times. – Gloria Estefan
90. “Love isn’t all about flirting, hugs, kisses. Love is about having the ability to take all those things away and still having feelings for that person.” – Unknown
91. “Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don’t make it of wood, you must make it of words.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
92. “A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.” – Proverb
93. That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you, kiss you – when you’re not so lovable.”
94. “You don’t stop thinking about women because your wife died. It’s terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!” – Ian McLagan
95. “Your hugs and kisses are like the stars that light up my life when things get dark.” ― Unknown
Holly Jaskolka is a certified Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner, yoga instructor, and an impassioned advocate for holistic well-being. Fueled by her love for animals and wanderlust, Holly leads a plant-based lifestyle that she complements with immersive travel experiences. When she’s not jet-setting to uncover the world’s hidden gems, she’s empowering individuals to heal emotionally, particularly those grappling with the aftermath of breakups. Connect with Holly on LinkedIn.