Famous Romantic Quotations

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. 

Leo Tolstoy 

Who would give a law to lovers?  Love is unto itself a higher law.

Boethius

My love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break...

Sullivan Ballou

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. 

John Keats

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. 

Dr. Seuss

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. 

John Milton

How my memory treasures every sweet stray moment of our past — handclasp, kiss and heart-beat, the passion of those dear unfathomable eyes, the rustle of garments, the gliding steps and lingering farewells!

Byron Caldwell Smith

To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.  

Williston Fish

I can no longer think of anything but you.  In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you.  I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me. 

Honore de Balzac