Quotes on Romantic Love

Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.