Romantic love quotes have been used by lovers throughout history to convey the depth of their emotion. Although romantic love is not our first or only experience of love, it is usually the most longed for and talked about in life. We all like to hear those three little words, ‘I Love You’ from that someone special in our lives, but sometimes it can be more effective to say it in a different way.

There are also pages of Romantic Sayings and Love Sayings both from unknown sources, along with Love Quotes and Channelled Love Quotes for more inspiration from known authors.

Romantic quotes are listed alphabetically on authors surname

A Romantic Quotes

Love is the expansion of two natures in such a fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other.
Felix Adler 1851 – 1933

B Romantic Quotes

Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
Richard Bach 1936

Your words are my food. Your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923

The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
Bible

May you always walk in beauty.
Black Elk 1863 – 1950

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painters eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.
Robert Brault

Sometimes a couple stays together for the sake of the kids… two kids who pledged to be forever true.
Robert Brault

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn’t marry me.
Robert Brault

What we find in a Soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.
Robert Brault

Whatever our Souls are made of..his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte 1818 – 1848

How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my Soul can reach.
I love thee with the breath, smiles and tears of all my life.
And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 – 1861

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 – 1861

Love me, sweet with all thou art
Feeling, thinking, seeing
Love me in the lightest part
Love me in full being
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 – 1861

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 – 1861

You were made perfectly to be loved, and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 – 1861

But to see her, was to love her, love her, and her alone.
Robert Burns 1759 – 1796

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron 1788 – 1824

Like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.
Lord Byron 1788 – 1824

C Romantic Quotes

Did he know that he worked his way into my dreams, where I missed him even in sleep.
Anna Carey

My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart’s beat.
Constantine Cavafy 1863 – 1933

Driven by the force of love, the fragments of the world seek each other, that the world may come into being.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881 – 1955

I ne’er was struck before that hour
With love so sudden and so sweet
Her face is bloomed like a sweet flower
And stole my heart away complete
John Clare 1793 – 1864

D Romantic Quotes

I think of love and you and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my Soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886

E Romantic Quotes

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

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.
Louise Erdrich 1954

G Romantic Quotes

For it was not in my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my Soul.
Judy Garland 1922 – 1969

If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my flower garden.
Claudia Ghandi

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
Andre Gide 1869 – 1951

H Romantic Quotes

The best thing to hold onto in life is.. Each other.
Audrey Hepburn 1929 – 1993

I cried today. I wasn’t sad. You showed me beauty that I had only seen in books and dreams. I now see it in you.
Jodi Hills

Love is not a matter of counting years, it is making the years count. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809- 1894

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809 – 1894

What I feel for you seems less of Earth and more of cloudless Heaven.
Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885

J Romantic Quotes

Your words are my food
Drink to me only with thine eyes
And I will pledge with mine
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I’ll not look for wine
Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637

K Romantic Quotes

Two Souls with but a single thought, two heats that beat as one.
John Keats 1795 – 1821

You come to love, not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing the imperfect person, perfectly.
Sam Keen

Love is.. Missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.
Kay Knudsen

L Romantic Quotes

Soul Mates: I don’t know how you are so familiar to me, or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before.. In another time, a different place, some other existence.
Lang Leav

When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation. And it is this lack of fear that makes for the dance. When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to music – then, and then only, are two people able to dance perfectly in time to the same rhythm.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1906 – 2001

Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.
Amy Lowell 1874 – 1925

M Romantic Quotes

Thou are fairer than the evening air, clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe 1564 – 1593

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.
A. A. Milne 1882 – 1956

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne 1882 – 1956

You, and you alone, make me feel that I am alive. Other men, it is said, have seen Angels. But I have seen thee, and thou art enough.
George Moore 1852 – 1933

What cosmic currents can pass through the holding of hands and communion of bodies of two beings in love!
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

N Romantic Quotes

I want to do to you, what spring does with the cherry trees.
Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973

P Romantic Quotes

Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato 429BC – 347BC

The madness of love is the greatest of Heaven’s Blessings.
Plato 429BC – 347BC

R Romantic Quotes

Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones. As the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fires.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1890

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is a watered shoot
My heart is like an apple tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickest fruit
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me
Christina Rossetti 1830 – 1894

S Romantic Quotes

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900 – 1944

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900 – 1944

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr Seuss 1904 – 1991

To the world you may just be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.
Brandi Snyder

T Romantic Quotes

When you look at me, when you think of me.. I am in paradise.
William Makepeace Thackeray 1811 – 1863

W Romantic Quotes

I don’t think it’s an accident when you fit perfectly into the crook of someone’s neck; almost hearing the snap of two puzzle pieces conjoining.
Rachel Wolchin

I ran out of words, when you started running through my mind.
Rachel Wolchin

My imperfections don’t feel like imperfections in your hands.. They feel like beginnings.
Rachel Wolchin

Y Romantic Quotes

I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Yeats 1865 – 1939

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