Top 500 Romance Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “My favorite color is you.”

— Suzanne Brockmann

52. “I’ve looked around enough to know that you’re the one I want to go through time with.”

— Jim Croce

53. “And empty words are evil.”

— Homer

54. “Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else’s dream.”

— Richelle Mead

55. “When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don’t let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year of fifty years. Don’t let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.”

— Nicole Williams

56. “Carpe Scrotum. Seize life by the testicles.”

— Rowena Cherry

57. “Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you’re meant to hold on to.”

— J. Sterling

58. “Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.”

— Danny Kaye

59. “You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

60. “Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you.”

— Elizabeth Berg

61. “Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me.”

— Kiera Cass

62. “I gave you the best of me.”

— Nicholas Sparks

63. “Love is my religion – I could die for it.”

— John Keats

64. “Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

65. “I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”

— Erin Morgenstern

66. “It’s a lot of responsibility to hold a person’s heart in your hands.”

— Jenny Han

67. “The first time he’d held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.”

— Rainbow Rowell

68. “I will see you in another life when we are both cats.”

— Cameron Crowe

69. “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

70. “You’re a hero and a gentleman, you’re kind and honest, but more than that, you’re the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.”

— Nicholas Sparks

71. “What about when someone doesn’t need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?”

— Stephen Chbosky

72. “I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.”

— Michael Cunningham

73. “One is never too old for romance.”

— Ingrid Bergman

74. “You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.”

— Katherine Mansfield

75. “She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.”

— J.D. Robb

76. “Spiritual connection does not mean romance.”

— Caroline Myss

77. “People aren’t defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.”

— Nina Dobrev

78. “Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.”

— Muriel Fox

79. “Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.”

— Thomas Wolfe

80. “The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

— Oscar Wilde

81. “The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”

— Arundhati Roy

82. “You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.”

— Anthony Bourdain

83. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”

— Ray Bradbury

84. “I now deserve love. romance, and joy – and all the good that Life has to offer me.”

— Louise Hay

85. “In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

86. “When you look out of a window, when you look at anything, you know what you’re seeing? Yourself. A thing can only look beautiful or romantic or inspiring only if the beauty or romance or inspiration is inside you.”

— Fredric Brown

87. “In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

88. “Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.”

— Henry Kissinger

89. “For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much – if he lives and uses that in hand day by day – shall be full to running over.”

— Edgar Cayce

90. “I don’t want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.”

— Irrfan Khan

91. “Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.”

— Kim Alexis

92. “Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”

— Scott Dikkers

93. “Smile. It’s the second best thing you can do with your lips.”

— Jill Shalvis

94. “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

— Leo Tolstoy

95. “Scent is the strongest tie to memory.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

96. “There may be trouble ahead – But while there’s moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let’s face the music and dance.”

— Irving Berlin

97. “It doesn’t matter where I am; I’m yours.”

— Sherry Thomas

98. “It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.”

— Carl Sagan

99. “They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”

— Nicholas Sparks

100. “You know I’m getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.”

— Veronica Roth