Romance Quotes

Don't hug me, it only makes me want to never let go.

Allison Mosher

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Sophocles

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished

Goethe

The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination

Voltaire

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Oscar Wilde

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

John Keats

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not

Crowley, Aleister

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

Curtis, George William

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss

Goldsmith, Oliver

Paradise is always where love dwells

Jean Paul F. Richter

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Herman Hesse

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Nietzsche

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other

Rainer Maria Rilke