175 Romantic Love Quotes to Ignite Your Heart's Passion

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Famous Romantic Love Quotes

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person. — Margaret Anderson

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. — Isaac Disraeli

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. — Gilbert Parker

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy. — Giacomo Casanova

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. — H. L. Mencken

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. — Plato

True love can alter human lives and change human nature. — Thomas S. Monson

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections. — Mangnu Hirschfield

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections. — Magnus Hirschfeld

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world. — Plato

True love, in the evolutionary sense, means peace of mind. ‘Still waters run deep’ is a good way of characterizing it. — Amir Levine

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance. — Ian McEwan

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love. — Walt Whitman

True love - that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy - is a choice. It's a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances. — Mark Manson

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived. — Danielle Steel

Short Romantic Love Quotes

  • True love is born from understanding. — Buddha
  • Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. — Sappho
  • Love is trembling happiness. — Kahlil Gibran
  • Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart. — Alphonse De Lamartine
  • Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart. — Joseph R. Bartlett

Top 10 Romantic Love Quotes

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. — J. G. Holland

We were together. I forget the rest. - Walt Whitman

We were together. I forget the rest. — Walt Whitman

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Unknown Author

Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins. - Jennifer Donnelly

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins. — Jennifer Donnelly

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas

My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky — Nizar Qabbani

Romantic Love Image Quotes

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead. - Marilyn Monroe quote

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead. — Marilyn Monroe

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. - Marilyn French quote

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. — Marilyn French

One love, one heart, one destiny. - Bob Marley quote

One love, one heart, one destiny. — Bob Marley

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech. - Sayings quote

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech. — Sayings

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are. - Martin Heidegger quote

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are. — Martin Heidegger

It is not love, but lack of love which is blind. - Glenway Wescott quote

It is not love, but lack of love which is blind. — Glenway Wescott

Romantic love quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

Most Romantic Love Quotes

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen

The last 200 years of your ancestry, contain 127 romantic relationships, each involving at least one critical sex moment and most of them probably involving deep love. You’re the product of 127 romances, just in the last 200 years alone. — Tim Urban

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. - Arthur Conan Doyle

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Romantic love quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it. — Greta Garbo

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. — John Green

The most romantic thing is to look someone straight in the eyes and say and mean, “I love you”, that's a lot. It's a really hard thing because you can never be certain of yourself, but at that particular moment, you feel like that. Its magic — Ville Valo

Romantic love quote Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me. — Honore de Balzac

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life. — Charles Stanley

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it. — Tom Hanks

I think to love somebody every day for a long period of time is the most romantic thing you can do. — Sayings

Romantic I Love You Quotes

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum

I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. — Juliette Drouet

I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. — Shana Abe

Romantic love quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be. — Ernest Hemingway

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Romantic love quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning. — Haruki Murakami

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. — Nicholas Sparks

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything. — Virginia Woolf

Romantic Movie Love Quotes

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks

You are, and always have been, my dream. — Nicholas Sparks

Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. — Julia Roberts

life without love, is no life at all - Leonardo da Vinci

life without love, is no life at all — Leonardo da Vinci

What light through yonder window breaks? — William Shakespeare

Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going. — Alice Hoffman

Romantic love quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic. — Christina Ricci

I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is. — Winston Groom

You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die. — William Shakespeare

I wish I knew how to quit you. — Annie Proulx

Romantic Quotes

To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again. — Laura Ortiz

You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete. And as long as there is breath in me, I'll make yours just as sweet. — George Strait

Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to. — Trent Shelton

Romantic love quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind. — Nina Simone

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. — Erich Fromm

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. — Melanie Griffith

Romantic love quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us. — Bernard of Clairvaux

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart. - Frederic Chopin

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart. — Frederic Chopin

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it. — Erich Fromm

I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success. — Sarah Emma Edmonds

Love Romance Quotes

There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that. — Lewis Grizzard

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. — Saint Augustine

You are my sunrise. Your smile lights up my world. I could give anything just to see you happy. True love is not in getting things from others but in giving and sharing more and more. — William Bernhardt

Romantic love quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

My heart is, and always will be, yours. — Jane Austen

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us. — Julio Cortazar

The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Romantic love quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. — Jay McInerney

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. — Elinor Glyn

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. - Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens

It isn’t hard to find a person whom I could fall in love with, to give her romance. But it’s hard to find such a person who would understand your view on life, accept who you really are and would truly care for you. — Marilyn Manson

Romance Quotes

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. — Theodore Roosevelt

There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict. — U.G. Krishnamurti

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. — Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Romantic love quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects. — Lafcadio Hearn

The more a man knows, the more he forgives. — Catherine the Great

There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage. — William J. Brennan

Ever since I was little, I've shied away from romance. It's not that I dislike women, but I'm not good with them. — Akira Toriyama

He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse. - Stephenie Meyer

He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse. — Stephenie Meyer

I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on. — Nicholas Pileggi

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours. — Jane Austen

Romantic Relationship Quotes

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. - Sigmund Freud

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. — Sigmund Freud

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments. - Chris Rock

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments. — Chris Rock

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there. — George Burns

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco

We seek the fulfillment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive. — Oliver Burkeman

Choosing a romantic partner isn’t just about the romance—you’re also choosing a confidant, counselor, career advisor, therapist, investor, teacher, travel buddy, roommate, best friend, and business partner. Choose wisely. — Mark Manson

No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your relationship will never survive. Love is about giving and taking, it's not just about smiles and kind words. Compromise is key. — Glennon Melton

You don't even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice. — Drake

You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. — Gillian Anderson

Romantic Passion Quotes

All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love. — Marquis de Lafayette

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. — Margaret of Valois

Paradise is always where love dwells. — Jean Paul

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both. — Isabel Allende

Love in its essence is spiritual fire. - Emanuel Swedenborg

Love in its essence is spiritual fire. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered - and I was delivered to you - to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet. — Zelda Fitzgerald

Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity. — Michael Jackson

The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival. — Leo Buscaglia

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something. — Sebastian Coe

Romantic Life Quotes

Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting. — Dean Martin

And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple. — William Wordsworth

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. — Nicole Krauss

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter. — Dr. Seuss

It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things. — Alexander McQueen

When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life. — Mark Manson

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. — Alan Moore

The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more. — Mario Vargas Llosa

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. — Maya Angelou

Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artist’s experience that are the first importance in art. — Grant Wood

Romantic Marriage Quotes

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me. - Frank Bruno

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me. — Frank Bruno

You are the best thing that's ever been mine. - Taylor Swift

You are the best thing that's ever been mine. — Taylor Swift

Love, and you shall be loved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, and you shall be loved. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself. — Halle Berry

My true love hath my heart, and I have his — Philip Sidney

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. — Richard Pryor

You're nothing short of my everything. — Ralph Block

A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other. — Dave Willis

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong

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More Romantic Love Quotes

I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. — Mitch Albom

In Conclusion

Reading romantic love quotes is not just about feeling good; it's about understanding the essence of love. It can offer a new perspective, encourage optimism, and give you a glimpse into the depths of non-romantic love as well. Quotes about love can serve as a beacon, guiding you through the complexities of relationships, reminding you of the importance of love in your life. Remember the romantic love pictures you've seen, the heartwarming quote romantic love sms you've received? They inspire, they motivate, and they remind us of love's enduring power. So, why not delve into the world of romantic love quotes? Let them inspire you, motivate you, and fill your heart with love's magic. After all, isn't love the most beautiful emotion we can experience?

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