An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way. — Harriet Lerner
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person. — Margaret Anderson
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. — Nicholas Sparks
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. — Billy Graham
First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever. — Rosemary Rogers
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. — Elinor Glyn
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. — Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves — Sigmund Freud
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. — Elizabeth Ashley
Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril. — Gary Busey
An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. — Adrienne Rich
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things. — Keanu Reeves
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. — Richard Wright
Short Romantic Relationship Quotes
A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment. — Greta Scacchi
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
Want Romantic Relationship Quotes
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
I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday — Nicholas Sparks
I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always. — Audrey Niffenegger
When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.
I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it. — Alexandra Potter
"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage. — Alexander Weinstein
I don't think relationships are all about sex, but it's definitely about passion and that feeling of "I want you now." I love that romantic side of it. — Eva Longoria
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
I want to be with the man who wants to open a movie studio with me and make films for new, fresh filmmakers who aren't getting a chance somewhere else. I haven't yet had that type of partnership in a romantic relationship. — Drew Barrymore
Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex. — John Hughes
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship. — Suzanne Brockmann
The more you want it [romantic relationship], the more you are looking for it, the more you repel it for whatever reason. I don't know why. If you kind of create this vacuum, let life take its course, then you tend to free yourself up for the unexpected. — Katherine Heigl
Romantic Life 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
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
Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
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
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
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
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
Romantic Love Quotes
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
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
Show respect even to people who don't deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.
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
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
The people that are there for you on your darkest nights are the ones worth spending your brightest days with.
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
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
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
Love Relationship Quotes
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? — Bob Marley
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. — Oscar Wilde
If you're abest during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright
To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving. — Mother Teresa
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia
Romantic Friendship 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're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are — Barry White
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens
Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. — Francois Mauriac
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. — Charles Bukowski
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
Don't inflict pains from your past on your present relationships.
This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had. — Nicholas Sparks
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. — Oprah Winfrey
Romantic Marriage Quotes
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks
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
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
You are the best thing that's ever been mine. — Taylor Swift
If someone betrays you once, it's their fault. If they betray you twice, it's your fault.
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
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen
My true love hath my heart, and I have his — Philip Sidney
Romantic Couple Quotes
A guy knows he's in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days. — Tim Allen
You're nothing short of my everything. — Ralph Block
Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. — Charles Dickens
How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.
You know you're in love when you stop comparing. — Mason Cooley
You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught. — Boris Pasternak
I want you for always...days, years, eternities. — Franz Schubert
The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. — Diablo Cody
My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding. My love and my life with you will be a never-ending story. My love with you is never-ending — M. Christina White
He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple. — Michael Grant
Romantic Feelings Quotes
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter. — Katharine Hepburn
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. — Haruki Murakami
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. — Thomas Wolfe
Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings. — David Sedaris
Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing. — Ravi Zacharias
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
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. — Richard Pryor
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical — Trey Parker
Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry. — Larry Adler
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
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
My heart is, and always will be, yours. — Jane Austen
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
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
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
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
Romantic Quotes
Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to. — Trent Shelton
I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be. — Ernest Hemingway
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
There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. — Melanie Griffith
I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
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
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
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
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
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
Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all? — Esther Perel
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
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 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
I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out. — Jennifer Love Hewitt
I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships. — Lara Pulver
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. — Stephanie Perkins
We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it. — Paulo Coelho
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. — Jess C Scott
To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. — Domenico Cieri
Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that. — Johnny Depp
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong
I firmly believe that if you follow these simple rules then you'll have a wonderfully romantic life. They're all so important when it comes to building a strong relationship, especially the very last one. — F. Burton Howard
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love? — Aberjhani
Absence makes the heart grow fonder — Eleanor Roosevelt
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. — Rumi
A simple I love you means more than money. — Frank Sinatra
Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life. — Matthew Hussey
If you were a star you'd be the one I'm searching for — Drake
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget. — Leo Tolstoy
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. — Oscar Wilde
I will love you unconditionally . — Katy Perry
Fall in love when you are ready, not when you’re lonely. — Simon Nessman
If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon? — Margaret Atwood
It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. — Bertrand Russell
My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds. — Hugh Hefner
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