quotations about 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 like fireworks in the dark night, thrilling but inevitably transitory. We are lucky if we can simply get along.
STEPHEN A. MITCHELL
Can Love Last?
Romances paint at full length people's wooings,
But only give a bust of marriages:
For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.
There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,
He would have written sonnets all his life?
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Everybody everybody ooh (ooh), alright (alright)
Dance, music, sex, romance
PRINCE
"D.M.S.R."
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance
LADY GAGA
"Bad Romance"
There will always be romance in the world, so long as there are young hearts in it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
attributed, Day's Collacon
I'm an advice columnist, so sometimes people ask me about how they can "keep the romance alive" in their marriages. This stumps me a little because, by "romance," I know they mean the traditional version, the one that depends on living inside a giant, suspenseful question mark. This version of romance is all about that thrilling moment when you think that someone may have just materialized who will make every single thing in the world feel delicious and amazing and right forever and ever.
HEATHER HAVRILESKY
"What Romance Really Means After 10 Years of Marriage", New York Magazine, February 9, 2016
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 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
Romance is a fragile and endangered condition.
STEPHEN A. MITCHELL
Can Love Last?
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 culmination of romance is terminal. Or so it is viewed by romantics, by those who can see no further.
M. C. DILLON
Beyond Romance