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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

— Marianne Williamson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy as everyday life or as difficult or thorny.

— Melissa Pritchard

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

— Billy Graham

The appeal of romance is love. And that's universal.

— Penny Jordan

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

— George Saintsbury

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

— Melissa Pritchard

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.

— Ann Voskamp

✗Opposing Perspectives

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

— Billy Strayhorn

Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

— E. F. Benson