Quotes About Romance

We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as ideal as we are corrupt.

Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments. We have allowed our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

Asumption: monogamy is the natural state of love.(...) It is not! It is an infantile idealism to wish to find everything in one other being

Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing.

Agora ele sabe que as ideias românticas são uma receita de desastre. Sua aptidão para o casamento baseia-se em critérios bem diferentes. Ele está apto para o casamento porque — para começar a lista — desistiu da perfeição.

Infatuations aren't delusions.

It's more than mere coyness to refer to what they have done as "making love." They haven't just had sex; they have translated their feelings—appreciation, tenderness, gratitude, and surrender—into a physical act.

Maturity means acknowledging that Romantic love might constitute only a narrow, and perhaps rather mean-minded, aspect of emotional life, one principally focused on a quest to find love rather than to give it; to be loved rather than to love. Children

I kiss, therefore I do not think.

One could compare a lover's gaze to a barbecue skewer. Within the complexity of our nature, every lover pics up on certain elements and neglects others.

The whole language of love had been corrupted by overuse.

Being married may be associated with caution, conservatism and timidity, but getting married is an altogether different, more reckless and therefore more appealingly Romantic proposition.

On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love'

We base our fall into love upon insufficient material, and supplement our ignorance with desire.

Our hesitancy was a game, but a serious and useful one, which minimized offending an unwilling partner and eased a willing one more slowly into the prospect of mutual desire. The threat of the great 'I like you' could be softened by adding, 'but not so much that I will let you know it directly . . .' Chloe and I were politely sparing each other the need to pay the full price for a candid declaration of love. 14.

better off pursuing tormented love affairs than reading Plato or Spinoza.

A marriage doesn't begin with a proposal, or even an initial meeting. It begins far earlier, when the idea of love is born, and more specifically the dream of a soulmate.

She wasn't wholly infatuated, though she liked the way he looked; but, so too did he and that unfatuated her a bit.

I am your new love to be kissed My flower, my lei, my love for you Is unforgettable . . .

After dinner she liked to linger in the aft lounge on "A" deck, listening to music and watching couples swing dancing. She would have given all the rest of her life to be on that dance floor with Kenji, feeling his arms around her as he held her close, followed by a long walk in the moonlight with nothing but ocean and freedom in every direction.

Why live in a soap opera when you can star in a great love story?

The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.

You must understand that knowledge is not all your heritage. I includes also courage and belief, like hers that we commemorate herein...and romance. Always, always romance.

Love is mysterious and rad, like Steve Perry from Journey