quotes about Romantic Love
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Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
-- Aberjhani -
Love changes us and helps us move forward in life. It often helps us become the people we've always wanted to be and move away from the people we were. Love transforms us in the best of ways, allowing us only to look back on a memory of our former self.
-- Adam Wilde -
When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.
-- Albert Finney -
Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire...
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
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We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.
-- Andrew Greeley -
For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.
-- Andrew SullivanSource : Andrew Sullivan (1999). “Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival”, Vintage
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The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
-- Andrew SullivanSource : Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon
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The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
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I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
-- Ang Lee -
I wish I knew how to quit you.
-- Annie ProulxSource : Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
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The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.
-- Arundhati Roy -
And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
-- Beatrice Wood -
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I really loved Kelsey [Grammer]. It wasn't a romantic love, but there was something about him. It's very difficult to see someone you care about having a hard time.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
-- Bela Lugosi -
How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language.
-- Bell Hooks -
Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance
-- Bell Hooks -
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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
-- Bill Griffith -
With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
-- Bill Pullman -
Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
-- Bill Pullman -
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
-- Bobby Vinton -
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But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.
-- Brian Lumley -
The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.
-- Brian Tracy -
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
-- Carter Burwell -
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And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.
-- Cassandra Clare -
There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
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That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
-- Catherine DeneuveSource : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
-- Charles Bukowski -
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A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
-- Charles Dance -
Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.
-- Charles Kuralt -
He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow, linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
I could feel the warmth of his presence as if a soft blanket had been wrapped around my soul, around my heart. It held me and protected me. It sheltered me and I knew I wasn't alone anymore.
-- Colleen Houck -
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.
-- David Millar -
Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.
-- Demetri Martin -
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In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
-- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau -
The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.
-- Don Johnson -
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
-- Donna Tartt -
Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.
-- Dr. Seuss -
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
-- e. e. cummings -
I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
-- E. M. Forster -
The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
-- Edmond Rostand -
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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
-- Emma Watson -
The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
-- Ewan McGregor -
I firmly believe that if you follow these simple rules then you'll have a wonderfully romantic life. They're all so important when it comes to building a strong relationship, especially the very last one.
-- F. Burton Howard -
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
-- FeistSource : "Feist: A Pop Star With A Punk-Rock Past". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. September 30, 2011.
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I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
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I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.
-- Gabrielle Union -
Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.
-- Gary Lineker -
People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
-- Gary Oldman -
No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your relationship will never survive. Love is about giving and taking, it's not just about smiles and kind words. Compromise is key.
-- Glennon Melton -
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If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.
-- Gus Van Sant -
It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.Source : "Harry Connick Jr. Interview - P.S. I LOVE YOU". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 18, 2007.
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Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed.
-- Harville HendrixSource : Harville Hendrix, Helen LaKelly Hunt (2013). “Making Marriage Simple: Ten Relationship-Saving Truths”, p.21, Harmony
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
-- Havelock Ellis -
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.
-- Helen Fisher -
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.
-- Helen Fisher -
There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."
-- Helen Fisher -
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Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.
-- Helen Fisher -
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.
-- Helen Fisher -
Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it’s going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it’s going poorly.
-- Helen FisherSource : "The brain in love". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.
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Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.
-- Helen Fisher -
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Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
-- Helen Fisher -
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
-- Helen Fisher -
The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.
-- Hugh Grant -
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
-- Irving BabbittSource : Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
-- Irwin Shaw -
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
-- James Earl Jones -
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
-- James L. Brooks -
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The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
-- James Weldon Johnson -
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
-- James Wolcott -
The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
-- Jane Austen -
Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.
-- Jane Campion -
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As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.
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Romantic love was invented to manipulate women
-- Jenny HolzerSource : Jenny Holzer, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1990). “The Venice installation: United States Pavilion, the 44th Venice Biennale, May 27-September 30, 1990”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
-- Joan Armatrading -
The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
-- Joe DiMaggioSource : Joe DiMaggio (2017). “BASEBALL FOR EVERYONE - A Treasury of Baseball Lore and Instruction for Fans and Players”, p.149, Edizioni Savine
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There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.
-- John Boorman -
If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
-- John Dos Passos -
In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
-- Joseph Barbera -
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
-- Joyce Carol Oates -
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My soul will find yours.
-- Jude DeverauxSource : Jude Deveraux (2002). “A Knight in Shining Armor”, p.388, Simon and Schuster
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I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.
-- Julia Roberts -
The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.
-- Lisa Alther -
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Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love
-- Lisa See -
I'm constantly exploring spirituality, sexuality, different aspects of love, whether it's romantic love or the love you have for your children. And love can be as devastating and destructive as it can be rejuvenating and life-giving. I guess I try to capture all of that.
-- Madonna Ciccone -
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
-- Maggie Gallagher -
It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.
-- Margaret KennedySource : Margaret Kennedy (1939). “The Midas Touch”, New York : Random House
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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
-- Margaret Mead -
We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
-- Marge PiercySource : Marge Piercy (2013). “Colors Passing Through Us”, p.134, Knopf
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In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.
-- Marianne Williamson -
The enlightened world will be one in which everyone is in love with everyone all the time. We will see each other as God created us: as the perfect, loving, and lovable people we really are. The purpose of romantic love is to jump-start our enlightenment.
-- Marianne Williamson -