Romantic Love quotes
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"Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face, We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss. Whoever you are, I give it especially to you; So long!And I hope we shall meet again."
"I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them."
"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."
"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."
"The difference between romantic love and friendship love is that romantic love involves a lot of compromise. It is a very giving type of love. With friendship, you can be a little bit more autonomous. You are not expected to compromise, in the same way. Maybe that's why friendships tend to last longer."
"There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful."
"A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee."
"The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state."
"The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!"
"As soon as we fall in love and we realise we've met the one the rest of our lives can't come soon enough. It's not like you're in a rush to get to the finish line, you're in a rush to feel and experience everything and then do it all again."
"Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you."
"What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?"
"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."
"She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore."
"The price of love is only love, ... one must love if one desires to be loved."
"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."
"... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss"
"It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover."
"Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one."
"I will follow you to the ends of the world."
