quotations about romance
If romance is contingent upon the illusions of idealization, it can only be fleeting or seriously deluded. In our popular wisdom, the intense idealization that is central to "falling in love" is regressive and childlike, laced with fantasy. Romance fades over time because familiarity provides a more realistic, "warts and all" view of the other; the harsh sunlight of the morning after dispels the enchantment of the moonlight. The most we can hope for is that infatuation will be transformed into a more sober "liking."
STEPHEN A. MITCHELL
Can Love Last?
There will always be romance in the world, so long as there are young hearts in it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Romance is resilient ... the collapse of the first crystallization is typically but a phase in the construction of the second -- those who dwell in and for illusion eventually learn to tolerate the vicissitudes of its dialectic, even to celebrate them for the sake of intensity and the frisson which is the telos of romance.
M. C. DILLON
Beyond Romance
I honestly have no idea how to live without you.
STEPHENIE MEYER
New Moon
Is it goodbye to those one night stands
Where you get what you want
Such a crazy steal
Hello to romance
THE HOLLIES
"Hello To Romance"
In the ballroom of romance, there's a young man waiting,
Standing looking over at the scene, it could be you or me,
Every eye in the room was watching as she walked over to him,
Whispered "do you want to come with me, I'm heading for the beach,"
In her BMW 635, going smooth at ninety, feeling good to be alive,
And then the moon began to shimmer,
Hey the sea was roaring in,
Just one kiss and then his heart,
Began to sing, he said
I'm ready, I'm ready for romance.
CHRIS DE BURGH
"The Ballroom of Romance"
Romance is a fiction that keeps women captive.
PATRICIA MELLENCAMP
A Fine Romance: Five Ages of Film Feminism
And time time is gone
It never lasts
Stops who it wants
Well I was wrong
It never lasts
This is no
There is no
Modern romance
YEAH YEAH YEAHS
"Modern Romance"
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.
UMBERTO ECO
The Island of the Day Before
Romance is a fragile and endangered condition.
STEPHEN A. MITCHELL
Can Love Last?
Everybody everybody ooh (ooh), alright (alright)
Dance, music, sex, romance
PRINCE
"D.M.S.R."
Romance is nothing more than savoring your partner and the gifts of your intimate relationship. From that place of savoring, from that place of gratefulness, you give back. You slow down and nurture your partner. You slow down and get in touch with what makes your partner's heart sing.
TODD CREAGER
"What Is Romance?", The Good Men Project, October 2, 2017