Famous Quotes & Sayings

Havelock Ellis

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Louise Erdrich

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Elmore Leonard

It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.

Joni Mitchell

The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.

Helen Fisher

Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

Helen Fisher

When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.

Gene Pitney

When the world outside my arms is pulling us apart, press your lips to mine and hold me with your heart.

Garth Brooks

Holding you, I held everything.

Frank Sinatra

You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.

Tom Hiddleston

Sometimes love really is just that simple.

Larry Graham

I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live.

Smokey Robinson

Put your trust in me, let this love be. This is for real, let time stand still.

Melanie Fiona

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

Nora Ephron

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a cab. And it was like... magic.

Nora Ephron

Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic. - Sleepless in Seattle

Henry Rollins

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Nina Simone

My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.

Neil Diamond

Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.

Neil Gaiman

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.

Jon Anderson

My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.

Ludwig van Beethoven

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours

John Clare

I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

Matthew Lillard

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

Philip Larkin

What will survive of us is love.

Paula Abdul

You're the kiss that puts my soul at ease.

Paula Deen

Love is like smiling, it never fades and is contagious.

Johnny Depp

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

James Joyce

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

Morton Hunt

Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

Meat Loaf

I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.

Meat Loaf

Dreams they come and go, but thoughts like love will always grow.

Nat King Cole

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

Morris Chestnut

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.