Top 500 Romance Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he was just waiting for me to be lonely, or to let my guard down, so that he could surface and fill my mind again with thoughts of him.”

— Colleen Houck

402. “I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.”

— Liam Neeson

403. “I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.”

— Rick Riordan

404. “Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.”

— Anita Brookner

405. “We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.”

— Margaret Atwood

406. “I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that’s a great combination.”

— Ralph Lauren

407. “Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks – tales of erotic suffering.”

— Marina Warner

408. “Just because lips have met doesn’t mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn’t mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.”

— Joshua Harris

409. “Yeah, tell me I’m a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That’s the way to my heart.”

— L.J. Smith

410. “Say it, America. Please. Tell me you love me, that you want to be mine alone.”

— Kiera Cass

411. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

— David Gemmell

412. “Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.”

— Washington Irving

413. “Love expands your soul with something inexplicably fulfilling. If you die without ever having experienced it, you will miss life’s only true joy.”

— Adele Ashworth

414. “When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don’t want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.”

— Fran Lebowitz

415. “We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I’ve had in my life has been wrong.”

— Gayle Forman

416. “The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.”

— E. M. Forster

417. “Ever since I’ve met you, I’ve swept you off my feet.”

— Morrie Ryskind

418. “Staying far never breaks relation, staying near never builds relation. Its a link between hearts, which never allows us to forget each other. Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”

— Elinor Glyn

419. “We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.”

— Charlaine Harris

420. “She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.”

— Nicholas Sparks

421. “No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.”

— Daphne du Maurier

422. “History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.”

— Horace Walpole

423. “One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we’re just friends.”

— Charlie Huston

424. “War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.”

— John S. Mosby

425. “It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.”

— Terry Kay

426. “There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.”

— Alexander McQueen

427. “I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t think he’d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn’t.”

— Elizabeth Scott

428. “You were on the other side of the world, but I often woke with the scent of you surrounding me. I ached for you, Kells. No matter how much Kishan thrashed me, it couldn’t diminish the pain of losing you. I’d dream of you and reach out to touch you, but you were always just out of reach.”

— Colleen Houck

429. “You don’t take away my choices. You are my choice.”

— Colleen Houck

430. “The best kisses in the world take place at night, in the ocean, with two naked bodies coiled around one another, only the stars to keep them company.”

— Hugh Howey

431. “If I let myself love you, I won’t throw myself in front of her. I’ll throw myself in front of you.”

— Richelle Mead

432. “You keep runnin that mouth and I’m goin to take you back there and screw you.”

— Cormac McCarthy

433. “I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

434. “Forget men, I want to marry my MacBook. It’s dependable, reliable and you can even go shopping with it.”

— Alexandra Potter

435. “A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”

— Elizabeth Bowen

436. “Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.”

— Roger Ebert

437. “One can’t fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

438. “Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.”

— Sophie Kinsella

439. “Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.”

— Salvador Plascencia

440. “Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”

— W.H. Auden

441. “I couldn’t escape him, now or ever. He’d always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn’t control, let alone escape.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

442. “You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.”

— Thomas Hardy

443. “I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.”

— Philippa Gregory

444. “You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

445. “The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.”

— Jean Paul

446. “For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”

— Jodi Picoult

447. “Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.”

— John Greenleaf Whittier

448. “Come to think of it, she did not speak a word. Yet I could have sworn she had the most beautiful voice.”

— Julie Klassen

449. “I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.”

— Jeanette Winterson

450. “Great. I’d been dumped in Hell’s waiting room.”

— Karen Chance