Quotes on Romance

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

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

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

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

I now deserve love. romance, and joy - and all the good that Life has to offer me.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

The greatest romance is with the Infinite.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.