Romance Quote by Alain de Botton — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.”

“We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.”

“The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.”

“A good half of the art of living is resilience.”

“There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.”

“I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals and illustrated manuscripts of the faiths.”

“Just let me wait a little while longer,”

“She made a face at him, and he could picture her, as a child princess—sticking her tongue out at a playmate in her princess castle.”

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

“Well done, Darren!” Master Byron was full of praise for the prince. “What did you use to cast it?”

“She leaned against the bridge’s warm marble balustrade, and looked as far down the darkening canal as the setting sun would allow. She wondered if others appreciated Venice’s beauty and fragility as deeply as she had come to or if, like a raging fever, the city infected some while avoiding others. She sighed at the grandeur and at the resilience that surrounded her, and she promised herself she’d try to be more like Venice.”

“Your beauty took my breath away, but your mind has stopped my heart.”