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Quotes About Romance

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star: she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
She had lost her heart the moment she set eyes on him: it was this prince she had always dreamed of and waited for. She knew him from long ago, from countless lives before. They had belonged together since time began.
~ Ramesh Menon
waters. When he was full-grown, Heti had him married to Sandhya Devi's daughter, Salakatankata, and Vidyutkesa enjoyed his bride as Indra does Paulomi.
~ Ramesh Menon
Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery."2
~ Ravi Zacharias
Marriages that are Christ-centered are beautiful to behold and wonderful to enjoy. Romance as God intended it can last a lifetime.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.
~ Ray Bradbury
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
~ Ray Bradbury
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
~ Ray Bradbury
Have you ever heard of rubbing dandelions under your chin? If it rubs off that means you're in love.
~ Ray Bradbury
It shows too much. Women are meant to be inhaled, not impaled.
~ Ray Bradbury
If it rubs off, it means I'm in love.
~ Ray Bradbury
with him holding her she felt so beautiful she knew their marriage had slipped her from her ugliness, like a bright sword from its case.
~ Ray Bradbury
conference? She was the Princess Repanse de Schoye of von Eschenbach's Grail Romance, the "lady of the mountain of Tabor."27 Von Eschenbach's "fiction", in other words, was no fiction at all, it was a hidden history of the Cathars, the Grail, and the "Grail Crusade.
~ Joseph Farrell
Yossarian was in love with the maid in the lime-colored panties because she seemed to be the only woman left he could make love to without falling in love with.
~ Joseph Heller
She slept for eighteen hours, while Nately dashed about the apartment all the next morning shushing everybody in sight, and when she woke up she was deeply in love with him. In the last analysis, that was all it took to win her heart - a good night's sleep.
~ Joseph Heller
It was love at first sight.
~ Joseph Heller
Arise, my love, and come away," and enjoy the good and glorious things of life.
~ Joseph Murphy
Let us take some simple examples: When you were going to be married, you had vivid, realistic pictures in your mind. With your power of imagination, you saw the minister, rabbi, or priest. You heard him pronounce the words, you saw the flowers and the church, and you heard the music. You imagined the ring on your finger, and you traveled through your imagination on your honeymoon to Niagara Falls or Europe. All this was performed by your imagination.
~ Joseph Murphy
the gusto of a broncobuster breaking in the wildest filly in the corral before heading on into the sunset. (In truth, we are in a hillside suite at the Chateau Marmont. But considering Yuri's attitude toward women, the cowboyspeak sums things up quite nicely.)
~ Josie Brown
You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love 'til it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other until it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood -- blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.
~ Joss Whedon
Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you. I know the feeling.
~ Joss Whedon
In the end, we must each tend to our own gulfs of sadness, though others can assist us with kindness, food, good words, and music. Our human tendency is to fill these holes with distractions like shopping and fast romance, or with drugs and alcohol.
~ Joy Harjo