Top 500 Romance Quotes (2023 Update)
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101. “When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? – Broken Verses.”

— Kamila Shamsie

102. “There’s no such thing as adventure. There’s no such thing as romance. There’s only trouble and desire.”

— Hal Hartley

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

— Wayne W. Dyer

104. “This is why I can’t be with Levi. Because I’m the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight-and Levi can’t even read.”

— Rainbow Rowell

105. “No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.”

— Scott Spencer

106. “The weirdest love stories are always the best.”

— Margaret Mazzantini

107. “Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.”

— Sally Stanford

108. “I’ve said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex.”

— Stephen Colbert

109. “She laughed. My favorite music.”

— Christopher Moore

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

— Ingrid Bergman

111. “There’s no good story without romance.”

— Stephenie Meyer

112. “Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

113. “She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.”

— Judi Fennell

114. “What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.”

— Albert Camus

115. “As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.”

— Clint Eastwood

116. “What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.”

— Colleen Houck

117. “We all know interspecies romance is weird.”

— Tim Burton

118. “Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

119. “When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you’ll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.”

— Gayle Forman

120. “There are some experiences in life they haven’t invented the right words for.”

— Lisa Kleypas

121. “Romance isn’t about proving to someone you love them with flowers and greeting cards and chocolate. Or even a lock on a fence. It’s a daily reminder. It’s saying, I choose you. Today and every day.”

— Kristen Proby

122. “If the best of one’s feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?”

— Virginia Woolf

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

— J.D. Robb

124. “Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

125. “Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.”

— Katherine Owen

126. “This vulnerable little woman seemed to be so strong and weak at the same time.”

— Sahara Sanders

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

— Henry Kissinger

128. “The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.”

— Jonathan Swift

129. “Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It’s part of racing.”

— Frank Shorter

130. “He grins again, and everything inside me moves. Oh, love. Love.”

— James Baldwin

131. “I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn’t love, it’s the best I have.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

132. “I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She’s tied me to her for eternity. She’s my home. She’s my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.”

— Colleen Houck

133. “There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Scott Dikkers

135. “Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.”

— Michelle Hodkin

136. “When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.”

— Philippa Gregory

137. “I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.”

— Jane Smiley

138. “Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.”

— Anne Campbell

139. “And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.”

— Stephenie Meyer

140. “Self-love is the source of all our other loves.”

— Pierre Corneille

141. “Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Carl Sagan

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

— Sherry Thomas

144. “Born to be wild; born to be free; nobody owns you; you are, a romantic tree.”

— Santosh Kalwar

145. “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

146. “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

147. “A bond between souls is ancient – older than the planet.”

— Dianna Hardy

148. “Moments, when lost, can’t be found again. They’re just gone.”

— Jenny Han

149. “Mathematics has beauty and romance. It’s not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It’s an extraordinary place; it’s worth spending time there.”

— Marcus du Sautoy

150. “But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

— Nicholas Sparks