- In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.
- Margaret Anderson
- The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
- Anita Brookner
- We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
- Andre Maurois
- 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
- Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other’s eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
- Maggie Gallagher
- 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
- The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
- Kate Millett
- 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 Moore
Sometimes pictures speaks louder than words.
Picture Of Love
