Romance & Passion Quotes

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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 read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

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.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

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

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

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

Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.

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

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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.

I'm a very romantic person.

For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

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

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 am keen to work in romantic stories and dramas.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Romance is everything.

I'm such a romantic at heart.

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.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

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.

Romantic love is an addiction.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

I love romantic comedies.

The anger of lovers renews their love.

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

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

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

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.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

I'm a very romantic and passionate guy.

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

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