Romantic Quotes
A collection of the best
romantic love quotes.
Romantic love is a passionate spiritual
emotional sexual attachment between a man
and a woman that reflects a high regard for
the value of each other's person.
- Nathaniel Branden
No one has ever loved anyone the way
everyone wants to be loved.
- Mignon McLaughlin
All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon the sand.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-William Shakespeare
Love is an energy - it can neither be created
nor destroyed. It just is and always will be,
giving meaning to life and direction to goodness
...Love will never die.
- Bryce Courtney
Love is that condition in which
The happiness of another person
Is essential to your own.
- Robert A. Heinlein
When love is not madness, it is not love.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.
- Emmet Fox
Love is a symbol of eternity.
It wipes out all sense of time,
destroying all memory of a
beginning and all fear of an end.
- Unknown
Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December
as you do in May?
- James J. Walker
Through love all that is bitter will be sweet
Through love all that is copper will be gold.
Through love all dregs will turn to purest wine
Through love all pain will turn to medicine.
Through love the dead will all become alive.
Through love the king will turn into a slave!
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
- Natalie Clifford Barney
Open your heart
and take us in,
Love - love and me.
- W.E. Henley
Passion makes the old medicine new:
Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
Passion is the elixir that renews:
how can there be weariness
when passion is present?
Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:
seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!
I learned the real meaning of love.
Love is absolute loyalty. People fade,
looks fade, but loyalty never fades.
You can depend so much on certain people,
you can set your watch by them.
And that's love, even if it doesn't
seem very exciting.
- Sylvester Stallone
The intellectual is always showing off,
the lover is always getting lost.
The intellectual runs away.
afraid of drowning;
the whole business of love
is to drown in the sea.
Intellectuals plan their repose;
lovers are ashamed to rest.
The lover is always alone.
even surrounded by people;
like water and oil, he remains apart.
The man who goes to the trouble
of giving advice to a lover
get nothing. He's mocked by passion.
Love is like musk. It attracts attention.
Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.
- Jalaluddin Rumi
Tell me how many
beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from
the tumbling main,
And threading the
eye of a yellow star: -
So many times
do I love again.
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Only when we give joyfully, without
hesitation or thought of gain,
can we truly know what love means.
- Leo Buscaglia
What greater thing is there for
two human souls than to feel that
they are joined together to strengthen
each other in all labour, to minister
to each other in all sorrow, to share
with each other in all gladness, to
be one with each other in the silent
unspoken memories? "I like not only
to be loved, but to be told that I
am loved.
- Leo Buscaglia
A man reserves his true and deepest
love not for the species of woman
in whose company he finds himself
electrified and enkindled, but for
that one in whose company he may
feel tenderly drowsy.
- George Jean Nath
Love is the joy of the good,
the wonder of the wise, the
amazement of the gods.
At the touch of love,
everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
I asked him with my eyes to
ask again yes and then he
asked me would I yes to say
yes my mountain flower and first
I put my arms around him yes
and drew him down to me so
he could feel my breasts all
perfume yes and his heart was
going like mad and yes
I said yes I will yes
- James Joyce
Love is like quicksilver in the hand.
Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it, and it darts away.
- Dorothy Parker
Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
Often hot and fierce,
But still only light and flickering.
As love grows older,
Our hearts mature
And our love becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchable.
- Bruce Lee
"I hold it true,what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all." -
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men always want to be a woman's first love-
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Unknown
When one is in love,
one always begins by deceiving oneself,
and one always ends by deceiving others.
That is what the world calls a romance.
- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Keep love in your heart. A life without
it is like a sunless garden when the
flowers are dead.The consciousness of
loving and being loved brings a warmth
and a richness to life that nothing else
can bring. Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
Love is only a dirty trick
played on us to achieve
continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Love would never be a promise of a
rose garden unless it is showered
with light of faith, water of
sincerity and air of passion.
- Unknown
Hate leaves ugly scars,
love leaves beautiful ones.
- Mignon McLaughlin
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
- Oscar Hammerstein
There is no remedy for
love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov
When you like someone, you like them
inspite of their faults. When you love
someone, you love them with their faults.
- Elizabeth Cameron
The greatest happiness of life it the
conviction that we are loved...
loved for ourselves, or rather,
loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
There is no remedy for
love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Perfect love is rare indeed -
for to be a lover will require
that you continually have
the subtlety of the very wise,
the flexibility of the child,
the sensitivity of the artist,
the understanding of the philosopher,
the acceptance of the saint,
the tolerance of the scholar and
the fortitude of the certain.
- Leo Buscaglia
To love and be loved is to
feel the sun from both sides.
- David Viscott, M.D.
Let the world stop turning,
Let the sun stop burning,
Let them tell me love's
not worth going through.
If it all falls apart,
I will know deep in my heart,
The only dream that
mattered had come true
...In this life
I was loved by you.
- Bette Midler
Do you love me because
I am beautiful,
or am I beautiful because
you love me?
- Cinderella
ROMANTIC