The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other's faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most.

Love is a great beautifier.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love is a friendship set to music.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

Ultimately love is everything.

I love romantic comedies.

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

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Love is a hole in the heart.

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance - where there's mystery and intrigue.

Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'

Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

Love is a lot of magic and madness followed by marriage. These are the three M's for me. I think these three keep life intact. I am a very filmi person and would like the magic and the madness to remain in my marriage forever.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Romance is everything.

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

All mankind love a lover.

Romantic love is an addiction.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

Love has a tide!

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.

I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Love is based on imagination.

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.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love is energy of life.