Romantic Quotes

I love you - those three words have my life in them.
     - Alexandrea to Nicholas III -

I have learned not to worry about love;
But to honor its coming with all my heart.
     - Alice Walker -

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
     - Amy Carmichael -

When you came, you were like red wine and honey,
And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
     - Amy Lowell -

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

On Valentines Day... my love asked me if I wanted anything special... all that I replied was "with you, everyday is valentines day... I don’t need an excuse to love you more one day than the next" 
     - Author Unknown -

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
     - Author Unknown -

Seduce my mind and you can have my body,
Find my soul and I'm yours forever.
     - Author Unknown -

To love a person is to learn the song
That is in their heart,
And to sing it to them
When they have forgotten.
     - Author Unknown -

She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
     - Byron -

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration.
Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her.
Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life.
     - Charles Stanley -

It seems to me that the real clue to your sex-orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.
     - Christopher Isherwood -

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. 
     - Elizabeth Barrett Browning -

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
     - Elizabeth Bowen -

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
     - Ellen Goodman -

I have loved to the point of madness;
That which is called madness,
That which to me,
Is the only sensible way to love.
     - F. Sagan -

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy.  I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die.  I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them. 
     - Gustave Flaubert, letter to wife Louise Colet -

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks;
a woman loses hers after four kisses.
     - H.L. Mencken -

My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.
     - Ibn Abbad -

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature
to stop speech when words become superfluous.
     - Ingrid Bergman -

Many people say, "Don’t ever stay with a guy who makes you cry cause the one who is, wont make you cry”. But I've learned that if "one night the moon asked me. If he makes you cry so much why don’t you leave him? I would answer...Moon, could you ever leave your sky?"
     - Jennifer Wilburn -

Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks...
     - John Dunne -

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion -
I have shudder'd at it.
I shudder no more.
I could be martyr'd for my religion
Love is my religion
And I could die for that.
I could die for you.
     -  John Keats –

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. 
     - Natalie Clifford Barney -

Love is a wonderful thing.
You never have to take it away
From one person to give it to another.
There's always more than enough to go around.
     - Pamela de Roy -

When love is not madness, it is not love. 
     - Pedro Calderon de la Barca -

See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea: -
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
     - Percy Bysshe Shelley -

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson –

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away;
and all the things I want to say can find no voice.
Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
     - Robert Sexton –

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