"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us."
Paulo Coelho
Romantic Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ROMANTIC
Romantic Quotes
Best romantic quotes from Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Pablo Neruda, Emily Brontë, Keats and Tagore: 200 beautiful lines on love, passion and devotion.
"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."Marilyn Monroe
RomanceTenderness
"Love is the greatest refreshment in life."
Pablo Picasso
"When love is not madness, it is not love."
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
PassionLove
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart."
Josiah Gilbert Holland
HeartTreasure
"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."
Sarah Bernhardt
DevotionRomance
"Romance is everything."
Gertrude Stein
RomanceLife
"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."
Charles Dickens
OpennessLove
"Who so loves believes the impossible."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."
János Arany
"Love has no age, no limit; and no death."
John Galsworthy
Eternal LoveTimeless
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
Samuel Johnson
LoveWit
"Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing."
Samuel Daniel
LovesickPassion
"What is love? It is the morning and the evening star."
Sinclair Lewis
"Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul."
Petrarch
LoveSoul
"You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought."
Arthur Conan Doyle
DevotionLove
"My heart is, and always will be, yours."
Jane Austen
DevotionForever
"Thou art to me a delicious torment."Ralph Waldo Emerson
PassionLonging
"I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
William Butler Yeats
DreamsTenderness
"Love is the energy of life."
Robert Browning
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
Morrie Schwartz
GivingReceiving
"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew."
Arrigo Boito
Love at First SightRomance
"'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
LoveLoss
"In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged."
Hans Nouwens
Long DistanceTrue Love
"Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age."
John Dryden
AbsenceLonging