(306 quotes found)
“The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.”
Andrew Sullivan
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”
Andre Maurois
“Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.”
Fran Lebowitz
“I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.”
Orlando Bloom
“Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's an entertainment medium, it's not that either. It's an advertising medium. It's a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.”
Bill Maher
“Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.”
Thomas Wolfe
“The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.”
Doug Horton
“Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...”
Tom Stoppard
“If a movie is described as a romantic comedy you can usually find me next door playing pinball”
George Carlin
