Top 500 Romance Quotes (2023 Update)
Page 2 of 10

51. “My favorite color is you.”

— Suzanne Brockmann

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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

55. “If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Erin Morgenstern

57. “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

58. “I gave you the best of me.”

— Nicholas Sparks

59. “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

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

— John Keats

61. “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

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

— Stephen Chbosky

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

— Jim Croce

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

— Michael Cunningham

65. “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

66. “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

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

— Thomas Wolfe

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Cameron Crowe

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

— Rowena Cherry

71. “I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, that no honest love could come to me.”

— Elizabeth Proctor

72. “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

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

— Louise Hay

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

— Danny Kaye

75. “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

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

— J. Sterling

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

— Katherine Mansfield

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Elizabeth Berg

81. “And empty words are evil.”

— Homer

82. “Spiritual connection does not mean romance.”

— Caroline Myss

83. “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

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

— Muriel Fox

85. “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

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

— Kim Alexis

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

— Jill Shalvis

88. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Veronica Roth

92. “Everyone’s a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.”

— Michelle Hodkin

93. “Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? – Damon.”

— L.J. Smith

94. “The moment you stop chasing happiness, you become happy.”

— Sandy Hyatt-James

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

— Anthony Bourdain

96. “Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”

— Esther Perel

97. “A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”

— J.S.B. Morse

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

— Ray Bradbury

99. “Romance is everything.”

— Gertrude Stein

100. “Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.”

— Wole Soyinka