(22 quotes found)
“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.”
Margaret Chase Smith
“The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.”
Doug Horton
“It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.”
Evita Perón
“With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“Romantic love is deeply embedded in the architecture and chemistry of the human brain, ... Why We Love.”
Helen Fisher
“It's a story about the survival of romantic love in difficult circumstances, like in Muslim countries and especially Afghanistan.”
Malcolm Jardine
“At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.”
John McLaughlin
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Judy Garland
“Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.”
Andrea Dworkin
