What is love? 10 of the most romantic lines in literature
Authors and poets have spent centuries writing love stories.
Ask anyone what they consider the most important things in life, and a majority would count love among them.
Love and romance have long been the topic of movies and songs, but authors and poets have spent centuries writing love stories. In honor of Valentine’s Day, State Your Optimism has compiled 10 of the most romantic lines in literature.
“You don’t love because, you love despite; not for virtues, but despite faults.” – William Faulkner
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” – C.S. Lewis
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.” – Virginia Woolf
“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” – William Shakespeare
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” – Leo Tolstoy
“When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are to become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No … don’t blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away. Doesn’t sound very exciting, does it? But it is!” – Louis de Bernieres
“If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.” – Michelle Hodkin
“We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.” – Ernest Hemingway
Another from Shakespeare …
“Doubt thou the stars do are fire; doubt thou the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love.”
And last, but not least …
“If you live to be 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne