Love and Romance Quotes

"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."

"Love prefers twilight to daylight."

"No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved."

"If you would be loved, love, and be loveable."

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other."

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."

"Everything is clearer when you're in love."

"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."

"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."

"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times."

"Absence - that common cure of love."

"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."

"I was adored once too."

"The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end."

"You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere."

"People happy in love have an air of intensity."

"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."

"They do not love that do not show their love."

"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

"Who loves, raves."

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."

"In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free."

"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love."

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

"To love is to act."

"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."

"I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special."

"Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love."

"I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy."

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

"I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island."

"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love."

"To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up."

"Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm."

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."

"Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow."

"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."

"In love, the one who runs away is the winner."

"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were."

"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference."

"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."

"I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it."

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

"Love and work... work and love, that's all there is."