Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Robert C. Solomon

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Richard Dawkins

I love romantic poetry.

Helen Fisher

Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

Ken Follett

It was the most romantic plane ever made.

Lisa Alther

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

Gayle Forman

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.

Elmore Leonard

It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.

Arundhati Roy

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

Diane Lane

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

Eckhart Tolle

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.

Elizabeth Bowen

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

Rita Mae Brown

... I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two ...

Timothy Olyphant

As far as the leading man/romantic lead, I'll tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on 'Catch and Release.' God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion.

Toni Morrison

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

Stephenie Meyer

He's like a drug for you, Bella.

Tom Hiddleston

Sometimes love really is just that simple.

Morton Hunt

Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

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.

Jill Bennett

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

Bette Davis

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Jenny Holzer

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women

Daphne Zuniga

The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here. I spent most of my adult life looking for romantic love. I've been in therapy since '87. What I learned was, that connection that I was looking for that I thought was really romantic love, my therapist literally said, "Well, when you feel that next, you probably shouldn't go towards that for a partner."

Paul Simon

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