Quotes About Romance

the average life span of a romantic obsession is two years.

Falling in love is not real because it is effortless. Whatever we do in the in-love state requires little discipline or conscious effort on our part.

It's hard to believe anything else when you are in love.

The euphoria of the "in-love" state gives us the illusion that we have an intimate relationship.

Research indicates that the average life span of the "in love" obsession is two years.1 For some it may last a bit longer; for some, a bit less. But the average is two years. Then we come down off the emotional high and those aspects of life that we disregarded in our euphoria begin to become important.

If she got tired of the writer, she could probably marry a short, heavyset man on the middle rungs of private equity.

She's the most beautiful and smart woman I've ever met," he liked to tell his friends after they had stopped loving each other.

He loved her so much that it almost took his breath away.

I am dying of love. That is how it is...I loved her so! And I love her still....and am dying of love for her. - I kissed her alive...and she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead. ~ Erik

He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love.

Oh, my betrothed of a day, if I did not love you, I would not give you my lips! Take them, for the first time and the last.

I moved closer to him, attracted, fascinated: in the midst of such passion, death itself became appealing...

Raoul suffered, for she was very beautiful and he was shy and he dared not confess his love, even to himself.

To his great astonishment, the door opened and Christine Daae appeared, wrapped in furs, with her face hidden in a lace veil, alone. She closed the door behind her, but Raoul observed that she did not lock it.

Christine: 'Are people unhappy when they're in love?' Raoul: 'Yes, when they're in love and aren't sure of being loved.' Christine: 'Are you saying that for Erik?' Raoul: 'For Erik and for myself.

Gaston Leroux

He {Erik} filled Christine's mind through the terror with which he inspired her, but the dear child's heart belonged wholly to the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny. While they played about like an innocent engaged couple on the upper floors of the opera, to avoid the monster, they little suspected that someone was watching over them.

A young man seeks a woman and finds her and is great and dies to the world. Afterward he is never as great again, but the woman is a comfort to him, reminding him of the time that was, and he is a little again with her what once he was wholly.

He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls, And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls.

The fiery heat of love by now had cooled, For from the time he kissed her hinder parts He didn't give a tinker's curse for tarts; His malady was cured by this endeavor And he defied all paramours whatever.

You go away,' she answered, 'you Tom-fool! There's no come-up-and-kiss-me here for you. I love another and why shouldn't I too?

Now let us turn again to January, who, in the garden with his fair May, sang full merrier than the popinjay, "I love you best, and always shall, and I will love no other one.

The fiery heat of love by now had cooled, for from the time he kissed her hinder parts, he didn't give a tinker's curse for tarts, his malady was cured by his endeavor, and he defied all paramours whatever.

Who may be a real fool unless he is in love?