Top 500 Romance Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Everyone’s a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.”

— Michelle Hodkin

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

— Sandy Hyatt-James

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

— L.J. Smith

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Elizabeth Proctor

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

— Wole Soyinka

108. “Romance is everything.”

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Hal Hartley

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

— Scott Spencer

111. “When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? – Broken Verses.”

— Kamila Shamsie

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

— Sally Stanford

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

— Margaret Mazzantini

114. “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

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

— Stephen Colbert

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

— Stephenie Meyer

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

— Tim Burton

118. “She laughed. My favorite music.”

— Christopher Moore

119. “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

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

— Becca Fitzpatrick

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

— Colleen Houck

122. “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

123. “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

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

— Lisa Kleypas

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— James Baldwin

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

— Katherine Owen

131. “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

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Sahara Sanders

134. “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

135. “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

136. “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

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

— Michelle Hodkin

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

— Philippa Gregory

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

— Anne Campbell

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

— Stephenie Meyer

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

— Pierre Corneille

143. “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

144. “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

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

— Santosh Kalwar

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Dianna Hardy

148. “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

149. “Things work out the way they’re meant to.”

— Danielle Steel

150. “Marriage is about becoming a team. You’re going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you’ll always figure out a way to get through it.”

— Nicholas Sparks