Romantic Love Quotes - Page 13

• May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Sweet, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.164, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Happiness, Children, Valentine

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• The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

  Tom Wolfe

  Art, Games, Long

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Painted Word”, p.24, Macmillan

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Romantic, Cutting, Romance

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.187, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Romantic love is an addiction.

  Helen Fisher

  Love, Happiness, Addiction

  "The science of love and happiness". Interview with Lynne Malcolm, www.abc.net.au. June 30, 2013.

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• Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

  Helen Fisher

  Happiness, Brain, Dopamine

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• Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

  Helen Fisher

  Happiness, Found, Evidence

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• I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

  Helen Fisher

  Happiness, Thinking, Focus

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• Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

  Helen Fisher

  Happiness, Baby, Attachment

  "Pharmaceutica L Love Potion Not yet..." by Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. January 7, 2009.

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• 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.

  Helen Fisher

  Irrational, Overwhelming, Gym

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• He's like a drug for you, Bella.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Romance, Drug, Eclipse

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Beautiful, Two

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• If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Passion

  'Wuthering Heights' (1847) ch. 9

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• If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Romantic, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Fall, Limits

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.

  Mitch Albom

  Love, Romantic, Memories

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• Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love

  Lisa See

  Heart, Ideas, Appreciate

  Lisa See (2011). “Peony in Love”, p.231, A&C Black

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• Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

  John Milton

  Love, Romantic, Eye

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.241

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• Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Broken Heart, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.51, Friederich Nietzsche

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• Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking

  Amy Jenkins

  Dog, Children, Believe

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• You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

  Richelle Mead

  Romance, Able, Vampire Academy

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.305, Penguin

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• All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sleep, Past, Romance

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.180, D. H. Lawrence

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• Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Women, Love You

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another - physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Envy, Insecurity

  "The Bluest Eye". Book by Toni Morrison, 1970.

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  I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

  Russell Brand

  Funny Love, Love You, Thorough

  "Baby fever for Russell Brand?" by Simon Perry, www.cnn.com. December 7, 2009.

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