Quotes on Romantic Love

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

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.

This is my philosophy on all life, not just when it comes to love. All the best things are terrifying, but that's why they're the best things. Nothing worth having comes easy. You have to be afraid to want it, afraid to lose it, afraid to try. If you feel that, then you know you're on to a winner.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

This is perhaps the best feeling in the world. I love going to sleep at night and wondering what weird and wonderful dreams I'm going to have however I always prolong sleep as long as possible, immeasurably happy simply listening to the sound of my fiancees breathing and feeling his arms around me. It's when you fall in love with these little things that you know you're truly in love.

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the fuel of sexual desire can trigger the fuel of romance. This is why it is dangerous to copulate with someone with whom you don't wish to become involved. Although you intend to have casual sex, you might just fall in love.

We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.