Romance Quotes

1. “It’s all right to love someone who doesn’t love you back, as long as they’re worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”

— Cassandra Clare

2. “Everyone belongs to everyone else.”

— Aldous Huxley

3. “I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. “My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.”

— Sigmund Freud

5. “It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn’t about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.”

— Lisa Kleypas

6. “Presence is more than just being there.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

7. “As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.”

— Garrison Keillor

8. “Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.”

— Faraaz Kazi

9. “Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”

— Nora Roberts

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10. “Love is three quarters curiosity.”

— Giacomo Casanova

11. “What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.”

— Robert Greene

12. “Pilots are drawn to flying because it’s a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.”

— Charles Lindbergh

13. “Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.”

— Stephen Hawking

14. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.”

— Faraaz Kazi

15. “Romance is the icing but love is the cake.”

— Julia Child

16. “No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.”

— Deepak Chopra

17. “But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

— Robin Williams

18. “You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don’t even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.”

— Keith Urban

19. “Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.”

— Danielle Steel

20. “True love is born of experience, not fairy dust.”

— Janette Oke

21. “Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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22. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

23. “When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.”

— Randy Pausch

24. “No one can force you to become a monster – you hurt someone and you create your own demons.”

— Melody Manful

25. “Every man’s dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.”

— Jerry Lewis

26. “That’s when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you – without you asking.”

— Adriana Trigiani

27. “Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years.”

— Helen Fisher

28. “The great ambition of women is to inspire love.”

— Molière

29. “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

— Oscar Wilde

30. “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and – in spite of True Romance magazines – we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

31. “A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.”

— Larry David

32. “I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in m bed. That’s what I want today. That’s what I’ll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.”

— Christina Dodd

33. “I’ll tell you what I hate – bands like My Chemical Romance.”

— Jamie Bell

34. “Love me less, but love me for a long time.”

— David Levithan

35. “I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.”

— Paullina Simons

36. “Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

37. “Just because I’m not forever by your side doesn’t mean that’s not precisely where I want to be.”

— Stephanie Laurens

38. “Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.”

— Taylor Swift

39. “Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom’s cause, as I walk from nothing to eternity.”

— Kiera Cass

40. “There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.”

— U.G. Krishnamurti

41. “Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.”

— Benjamin Franklin

42. “You are my glue. Without you, I’d be nothing but broken pieces.”

— Miley Cyrus

43. “Sensuality often hastens the “Growth of Love” so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

44. “I have fallen in love with you, and there is no future for us. That you burst into my life suddenly only a short time ago. That it’s too fast, too soon, and you will leave the same way you came into my life. I’ll turn around one day and you’ll be gone.”

— Rachel Gibson

45. “Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.”

— Thomas More

46. “Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

— Oscar Wilde

47. “In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I’ll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”

— Nicholas Sparks

48. “Singing songs that make you slit your wrists.”

— Gerard Way

49. “I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”

— Jess C. Scott

50. “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

— Oscar Wilde