Top 500 Romance Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

302. “Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.”

— Andy Warhol

303. “She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

304. “I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don’t tell me to leave.”

— George R.R. Martin

305. “I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

306. “There’s one great script that hit my desk that I didn’t change at all, and that was True Romance.”

— Tony Scott

307. “And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I’ve served ye well.”

— Diana Gabaldon

308. “We all romanticize the people we adore.”

— John Green

309. “Three years? That’s a thousand tomorrows, ma’am.”

— Karen Kingsbury

310. “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”

— Elinor Glyn

311. “No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.”

— Lauren Bacall

312. “The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.”

— Alan Kay

313. “You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”

— Richelle Mead

314. “I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn’t think about it as I’m falling asleep.”

— Elizabeth Scott

315. “I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.”

— Anita Desai

316. “I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.”

— Quentin Tarantino

317. “I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.”

— Neil Gaiman

318. “But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.”

— Jodi Picoult

319. “Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”

— Richelle Mead

320. “What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.”

— Alex Flinn

321. “Every romance does not lead to sex.”

— Bill Cosby

322. “Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

323. “Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.”

— Andy Warhol

324. “Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.”

— Theodor Reik

325. “It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other.”

— Jeaniene Frost

326. “We’re taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you’re the rule, not the exception. It’s liberating. But we also know it’s not an easy concept. -He’s not just into you.”

— Greg Behrendt

327. “She’d secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she’d fallen for him hard.”

— Rick Riordan

328. “Hearts can’t be broken because they’re made of marzipan.”

— Kerstin Gier

329. “By ‘scientifiction’ I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision.”

— Hugo Gernsback

330. “Falling in love is not a rational process. It can’t be planned or avoided. It happens – for good or bad it simply happens. – Katrina Svensen.”

— Suzanne Selfors

331. “You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”

— Suzanne Collins

332. “More important than having a romance with the object that I’m drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.”

— Jim Dine

333. “It’s all life is. Just going ’round kissing people.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

334. “He’s like a drug for you, Bella.”

— Stephenie Meyer

335. “I live with romance in my brain. I’m a true-blue Cancerian like that.”

— Priyanka Chopra

336. “Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.”

— Tom Robbins

337. “Everything changes except the love.”

— Santosh Kalwar

338. “I’m an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.”

— Glen Cook

339. “On the Hugh Grant romance rumours: We’re not dating and I’m not pregnant. We have not kissed or touched. We have not fought and broken up.”

— Sandra Bullock

340. “I’d rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I’d rather die loving Alex than live without him.”

— Lauren Oliver

341. “Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.”

— Helen Fisher

342. “Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make.”

— Colleen Houck

343. “She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.”

— Leslie Ludy

344. “I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.”

— Amanda Grace

345. “Never let a boy know you’re crazy about him. He’ll lose interest, and then you’ll be a loser.”

— Hailey Abbott

346. “We’re almost there, Oliver said. Once again Petunia was so startled that she tripped and would have fallen is Oliver hadn’t caught her around the waist and pulled her upright. “You must have been far away,” he said laughing.”

— Jessica Day George

347. “I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren’t the same thing.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

348. “It is no wonder lesbians love women.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

349. “You are my heart as it beats within my chest, my soul as it moves through my mind. The breath in my body that so fascinates you is your essence pouring in and out of me in a wave that drowns me over and over again until I cannot breathe for wanting you. Needing you.”

— Jacquelyn Frank

350. “Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.”

— Groucho Marx