Romantic Quotes

"I'd like to give you everything you never had, and even then you wouldn't know how wonderful it is to be able to love you."

Frida Kahlo

"I always feel so overwhelmingly in your debt, if there can be accounts in love."

"Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered – and I was delivered to you – to be worn."

Zelda Fitzgerald

"I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia."

Vita Sackville-West

"I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"

Emily Brontë

"I have as much soul as you, – and full as much heart!"

Charlotte Brontë

"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further."

Victor Hugo

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

Robert Browning

"No one worth possessing can be quite possessed."

Sara Teasdale

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open, and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away."

Dorothy Parker

"If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me."

W. H. Auden

"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."

Octavio Paz

"To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves."

Federico García Lorca

"The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love."

Gabriel García Márquez

"Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."

Milan Kundera

"Genuine love ought to be founded on the mutual recognition of two liberties."

Simone de Beauvoir

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."

George Sand

"I loved you; and perhaps I love you still, The flame, perhaps, is not extinguished yet."

Alexander Pushkin

"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness."

Omar Khayyam

"Fill the flowers with colour, let the spring breeze blow; come, so the garden may come alive."

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

"O foolish heart, what has happened to you? After all, what is the cure for this pain?"

Mirza Ghalib

"Every leaf, every bud knows the state of my heart."

Mir Taqi Mir

"Repeating 'Ranjha, Ranjha', I myself have become Ranjha."

Bulleh Shah

"Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted."