Famous Love Quotes from Romantic Movies

What is love? We can feel it, but can we define it? Love can be mutual or unrequited; parental or romantic; erotic or platonic; physical or spiritual; condemning or redemptive. We fall in love, and we fall out of love. Love can be warfare when we surrender to it unconditionally, or metaphysical when it haunts us. We can spend a lifetime trying to figure out love. Gifted screenwriters have tackled this challenge, and here's a sampler of what they've come up with:

FRANCESCA
Something's happened.
I've met someone. I've fallen in love
in a way I've never thought could
happen my entire life.

The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

MOLLY
I love you. I really love you.

SAM
Ditto.

Ghost (1990)

PARRISH
I know it's a cornball thing, but
love is passion, obsession, someone
you can't live without. If you don't start
with that, what are you going to end up with?
I say fall head over heels. Find someone
you can love like crazy and who'll love
you the same way back. And how do
you find him? Forget your head and
listen to your heart.

Meet Joe Black (1998)

RONNY
I love two things. I love you, and I
love the Opera. If I can have the
two things that I love together for
one night, I will be satisfied to
give up the rest of my life.

Moonstruck (1987)

WILL
I could make love out of words
as a potter makes cups out of clay...
love that overthrows empires,
love that binds two hearts together
come hellfire and brimstones...

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

VIOLA
I will have poetry in my life.
And adventure. And love. Love above all.
..................................................
Not the artful postures of love,
but love that overthrows life.
Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot
in the heart, and nothing to be done,
come ruin or rapture.

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

DEBORAH
I want us to be close. I want to
feel like you're not nuts to be in
love with me. So what I think is we
should talk till we pass out..

Spanglish (2004)