Love inspires the most beautiful gestures. Love makes us starry-eyed; it makes us swoon. It makes us want to write sonnets and dance until dawn. It makes us do things that other people might even think are a little crazy (but if you’ve ever been in love, you’ll understand). It also inspires some of the most beautiful and romantic quotes ever uttered in the English language. That’s why we’ve rounded up the top 25 most romantic quotes for her (and him!) as uttered or written by celebrities and lovers around the world and across time.
1. “One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without and find that breath is of little consequence.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever
2. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss
3. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
4. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
5. “Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”
― A.A. Milne
6. “She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
7. “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna And The French Kiss
8. “They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
9. “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”
― Elinor Glyn
10. “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coehlo
11. “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me … every day.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
12. “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”
― Mitch Albom
13. “One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles
14. “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.”
― Haruki Murakami
15. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk To Remember
16. “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.“
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
17. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson
18. “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
19. “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
― Albert Einstein
20. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― Oscar Wilde
21. “If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
22. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
23. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
24. “Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it’s morning again, they’ll wash away
Here it’s safe, here it’s warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
25. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
Source: YourTango.com