(306 quotes found)
“If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.”
Quentin Crisp
“Love prefers twilight to daylight”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality”
Marya Mannes
“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”
Thomas More
“The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.”
Doug Horton
“The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.”
Joan Chen
“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.”
Margaret Chase Smith
“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
“It seems to me that the real clue to your sex-orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.”
Christopher Isherwood
