quotations about romance
Romances paint at full length people's wooings,
But only give a bust of marriages:
For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.
There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,
He would have written sonnets all his life?
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
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
Women Writers Talk
The culmination of romance is terminal. Or so it is viewed by romantics, by those who can see no further.
M. C. DILLON
Beyond Romance
If romance is contingent upon the illusions of idealization, it can only be fleeting or seriously deluded. In our popular wisdom, the intense idealization that is central to "falling in love" is regressive and childlike, laced with fantasy. Romance fades over time because familiarity provides a more realistic, "warts and all" view of the other; the harsh sunlight of the morning after dispels the enchantment of the moonlight. The most we can hope for is that infatuation will be transformed into a more sober "liking."
STEPHEN A. MITCHELL
Can Love Last?
I honestly have no idea how to live without you.
STEPHENIE MEYER
New Moon
Romance is a fiction that keeps women captive.
PATRICIA MELLENCAMP
A Fine Romance: Five Ages of Film Feminism
There will always be romance in the world, so long as there are young hearts in it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
attributed, Day's Collacon
And time time is gone
It never lasts
Stops who it wants
Well I was wrong
It never lasts
This is no
There is no
Modern romance
YEAH YEAH YEAHS
"Modern Romance"
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.
UMBERTO ECO
The Island of the Day Before
Romance is a fragile and endangered condition.
STEPHEN A. MITCHELL
Can Love Last?
Everybody everybody ooh (ooh), alright (alright)
Dance, music, sex, romance
PRINCE
"D.M.S.R."
Romance is nothing more than savoring your partner and the gifts of your intimate relationship. From that place of savoring, from that place of gratefulness, you give back. You slow down and nurture your partner. You slow down and get in touch with what makes your partner's heart sing.
TODD CREAGER
"What Is Romance?", The Good Men Project, October 2, 2017