Top 500 Romance Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.”

— Jamie McGuire

152. “I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.”

— Ransom Riggs

153. “I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.”

— Wendelin Van Draanen

154. “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

155. “I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

156. “No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.”

— Matsuri Hino

157. “Living is hard – dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What’s so difficult about that? Nothing really – except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

158. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.”

— Faraaz Kazi

159. “Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two – love and controlling power over the other person – are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.”

— Rob Bell

160. “Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.”

— Julie Anne Peters

161. “The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.”

— Rachel Gibson

162. “Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”

— Suzanne Collins

163. “I honestly have no idea how to live without you.”

— Stephenie Meyer

164. “Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.”

— E. M. Forster

165. “I want to build a life with someone that’s based on their dreams as well as my dreams. I think that the idea of finding another person to share with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life.”

— Taylor Swift

166. “In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.”

— Peter Lynch

167. “Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!”

— Ayn Rand

168. “You’re the most incredible girl I’ve ever known. You’re gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don’t deserve you, but what I’m trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very much.”

— Stephanie Perkins

169. “I’ll drink your champagne. I’ll drink every drop of it, I don’t care if it kills me.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

170. “When we first met, I didn’t want to get involved with anyone. I didn’t have the time or energy, and I wasn’t sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you.”

— Nicholas Sparks

171. “Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.”

— Emil Zatopek

172. “Every woman wants a man who’ll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.”

— Rainbow Rowell

173. “I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”

— Jeanette Winterson

174. “Nice: meaning I’m going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them – to you.”

— Raymond Chandler

175. “The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.”

— Khaled Hosseini

176. “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

— Oscar Wilde

177. “The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you’re gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I’m sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can’t sing!”

— Gerard Way

178. “It’s only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

179. “Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.”

— Aldous Huxley

180. “I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.”

— Dorothy Parker

181. “In every living thing there is the desire for love.”

— D. H. Lawrence

182. “Any time not spent on love is wasted.”

— Torquato Tasso

183. “Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.”

— Michael Novak

184. “Sometimes I wonder if there’s something wrong with me. Perhaps I’ve spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.”

— E.L. James

185. “My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.”

— Gerard Way

186. “The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.”

— Irving Stone

187. “Romance is when after two people have gone through thick and thin together, and have confirmed to become a love that will never change no matter what happens.”

— Jaejoong

188. “True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one’s companion.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

189. “A real relationship is two-way.”

— Sophie Kinsella

190. “I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because ‘romantic’ doesn’t mean ‘sugary.’ It’s dark and tormented – the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain.”

— Catherine Breillat

191. “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”

— Charles Dickens

192. “That this girl would know exactly how to shatter me.”

— Tahereh Mafi

193. “I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.”

— Leonard Cohen

194. “Romance lasts forever, love don’t fade away. They may take away our future, but they can’t stop yesterday.”

— John Denver

195. “Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

196. “Okay, then I’ll just say I love you. There is nothing in this world more important to me than you are. I’m only content when you’re near. My whole purpose is to be what you need me to be. It’s not poetry, but it’s from my heart. Will that do?”

— Colleen Houck

197. “Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes.”

— pleasefindthis

198. “While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it’s all on you.”

— Steve Winwood

199. “Humor was the enemy of desire.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

200. “When your parents split up, it’s impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.”

— Jennifer Aniston