Romantic Quotes

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.

I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.

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

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more…

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Romance is everything.

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and ca…

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

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

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.