Ideal Love Quotes

Not as she is, but as she fills his dream

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.

We have to create perfection through love

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees.

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.

And yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever.

For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle.

If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I found a great woman in Keely Shaye. Not if I searched a million times over would I find one as good.

I still dream that it was you. No matter how many times I've looked, in my dreams it's always been you who were meant to be my queen.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.

Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.