Romantic films have a way of tugging at our heartstrings. Whether we watch an extremely relatable scene or drift off into wishful thinking, we can never get enough of those cheesy lines. Old films, rom-coms, even action movies — romantic movie lines never fail to make us gush.
If you’re having trouble coming up with the right words to say to your special someone, then you’re in luck. Today, we’ve compiled the most romantic movie quotes of all time. Word of caution: You may need tons of TLC after reading this.
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
“No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”
- Love Story (1970)
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”
- When Harry Met Sally (1989)
“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
- Patch Adams (1998)
“I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where.”
- Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life.”
- Titanic (1997)
“Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me… it brought me to you … You must do me this honor, Rose. Promise me you’ll survive. That you won’t give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.”
- Love Actually (2003)
“But for now, let me say — without hope or agenda, just because it’s Christmas and at Christmas you tell the truth — to me, you are perfect. And my wasted heart will love you. Until you look like this [picture of a mummy]. Merry Christmas.”
- Annie Hall (1977)
“Love is too weak a word for what I feel — I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F’s.”
- Terminator (1984)
“And maybe it’ll be enough if you know that in the few hours we had together we loved a lifetime’s worth.”
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
“I could die right now, Clem. I’m just… happy. I’ve never felt that before. I’m just exactly where I want to be.”
- Meet Joe Black (1998)
“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?”
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
“I wish I knew how to quit you.”
- Dirty Dancing (1987)
“Me? I’m scared of everything. I’m scared of what I saw, I’m scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.”
- Juno (2007)
“In my opinion the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out of your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.”
- City of Angels (1998)
“I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One.”
- Jerry Maguire (1996)
“I love you. You complete me.”
- Mouline Rouge (2001)
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.”
- Shakespeare in Love (1998)
“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No… not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening. but love that…overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.”
- Notting Hill (1999)
“After all… I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”
- Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
“It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together … and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home. .. only to no home I’d ever known … I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like … magic.”
- Serendipity (2001)
“You don’t have to understand. You just have to have faith… faith in destiny.”
- Pretty in Pink (1986)
“You said you couldn’t be with someone who didn’t believe in you. Well I believed in you. I just didn’t believe in me. I love you.”
- Along Came Polly (2004)
“Since we have been together I have felt more uncomfortable, out of place, embarrassed, and just physically sick than I have in my entire life. But I could not have gone through that, I could not have thrown up 19 times in 48 days if I was not in love with you.”