Romantic Quotes

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

True love stories never have endings.

I love you more than my own skin.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

So the lover must struggle for words.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

We only part to meet again.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

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

A man's kiss is his signature.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Romance is everything.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

When I give I give myself.

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

I love Valentine's Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is 'When Harry Met Sally.'

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

My heart is like a singing bird.

It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.

A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

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

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.

I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.

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 am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

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

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

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

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

I don't find these technical things like flowers and chocolates romantic at all. I think Valentine's Day makes no sense.

Love alone could waken love.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.

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

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

Love is friendship set on fire.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.