So, fall asleep love, loved by me….for I know love, I am loved by thee.
—Robert Browning (1812–89) English Poet
He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance; Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance, And banner waves, and trumpet sounds, And ladies ride with hawk on wrist, And mighty warriors sweep along, Magnified by the purple mist, The dusk of centuries and of song.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
We are most alive when we’re in love
—John Updike (1932–2009) American Novelist, Poet, Short-Story Writer
So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure.
Without him, live no life.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
—Barbara Cartland (1901–2000) English Popular Romantic Novelist
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
—Anita Brookner (1928–2016) English Novelist, Art Historian
The nearer I approach the end, the clearer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple. For half a century I have been writing my thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode and song – I have tried all; but I feel that I have not said a thousandth part of that which is in me. When I go down to the grave I can say like many others, “I have finished my day’s work” but I cannot say, “I have finished my life’s work”; my day’s work will begin the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley. It is an open thoroughfare. It closes in the twilight to open in the dawn. My work is only beginning; my work is hardly above its foundation. I would gladly see it mounting forever. The thirst for the infinite proves infinity.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British Essayist, Physician
To most men any romance which runs beyond the limits of an episode becomes a nuisance.
—Unknown
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.
—Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman
A heart truly in love never loses hope but always believes in the promise of love, no matter how long the time and how far the distance.
—Indian Proverb
The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead…
—John Boorman
Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Poet
Love is an act of faith.
—Erich Fromm (1900–80) German-American Psychoanalyst, Social Philosopher
No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
—Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American Novelist, Essayist
The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.
—Unknown
Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
—Zelda Fitzgerald (1899–1948) American Writer, Artist
The person who will truly understand and appreciate you, the one you deserve, has not come into your life yet
—Unknown
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
—Stephen King (b.1947) American Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Screenwriter, Columnist, Film Director
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
My love for you is a journey; Starting at forever, And ending at never.
—Unknown
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
—Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American Historian, Academic, Attorney, Writer
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
—Henry Drummond
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) English Occultist, Mystic, Magician
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
—Denis Diderot (1713–84) French Philosopher, Writer
The world is no longer a romantic place. Some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don’t let the world win.
—John Cage (1912–92) American Composer
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
You shine very brightly in my heart, and in my mind. Small little
truths that I either have to accept or dispel. You will always be safe
in my heart, no matter how dark the rest of it may become.
You will always shine bright. Stand out among the rest. This much I know.
—Indian Proverb
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