Quotes about love and romance. Words for those who are troubled by love or matters of the heart.

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Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Faculty of Music (now: Department of Music Culture and Education, Early Childhood Music Education major). In elementary school, my homeroom teacher was Jun Kusaba, a game researcher. After graduating from university, I worked as a kindergarten teacher for 10 years and as an after-school childcare instructor for 7 years, then took a position as a music teacher at an international school in Singapore. In addition to music education, I engaged in activities that introduced Japanese culture, traditional games, and recreational activities, working with many children. Later, through freelance writing, planning, and editing at Shogakukan, I met many delightful adults and experienced the joy of communicating and sharing. Drawing on the perspective cultivated in the field of education and my experience as an editor, I provide practical information with an emphasis on both input and output, mainly in areas related to music and children. My hobbies include instruments, singing, handicrafts, toys, drawing, traditional games, the outdoors, and books. My special skill is spinning-top tricks.

In every era, love profoundly shapes our lives, doesn’t it?

We hesitate over whether to confess our feelings to someone we like, feel overwhelmed by the pain of heartbreak, or decide to walk through life together with the one we love…

In this article, we introduce quotes that resonate with these many scenes of love.

We’ve gathered sayings that teach us what matters when we love, what it means to live alongside someone precious, and what love itself is.

If you’re struggling with love or dreaming of it, be sure to take a look!

Quotes about love and romance: Words for those troubled by love (31–40)

Since they say ‘to each their own,’ shouldn’t there be as many kinds of love as there are hearts?Leo Tolstoy

This famous quote by Leo Tolstoy, the novelist who wrote War and Peace, carries the message that just as people have different ways of thinking, love can take many forms—and that we should embrace its diversity.

There are many couples who nurture love in various ways, whether in terms of gender, age, or other aspects.

Each relationship belongs to the people in it.

It’s not something for others to interfere with; rather, it encourages each of us to love in the way our own heart leads.

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What saves us from love is not so much reason as busyness.Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

No matter how irresistibly you love someone and your love won’t stop, or how deeply you’re sunk in the sorrow of heartbreak, you tend to forget when you keep yourself busy with work or study.

This famous quote by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the literary giant who wrote numerous works such as “Rashomon” and “The Nose,” has the power to save those who are prone to drowning in romance.

Even if you try to restrain yourself through reason, it rarely goes well.

More than that, if you create a physically “busy” situation, no matter how overwhelming the love is, you can immerse yourself in your busyness and forget it, even if only temporarily.

If you’re suffering from a painful heartbreak, it might be good to find something you can get busy with and devote yourself to.

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I understand what it means to like someone, but I don’t understand the feeling of agonizing over it. I do understand why you’re troubled, but if you know the reason, that means you’ve already got your answer.Kazlaser

Falling for someone is perfectly natural.

It’s just as natural to feel torn, anxious, or stuck in your head, going in circles without finding a conclusion.

Even so, the moment you understand why you’re troubled, the answer is already within you.

Acknowledge your hesitation and anxiety as natural reactions, and then decide whether you will act on the reasons you’re struggling—what you choose will shape what comes next.

It’s wonderful to value the other person and those around you, but by honestly facing your own feelings, your heart will gradually settle, and you’ll get closer to your answer.

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Loving someone, you know, is probably about praying that you yourself will change together with the person you love.Tatsuro Hoshino

Back in the Taisho and Showa eras, men walked ahead while women followed quietly three steps behind—thinking about it now, it feels a bit strange, but that was normal then.

There was also the bubble-era style of romance where the man took the lead assertively.

This line comes from a drama set in the Showa period, yet it exudes a timeless charm that fits our era, too.

It’s a refined line that captures the ideal shape of love: the two of us changing together, regardless of being a man or a woman.

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When you fall for someone, no matter what they put you through, you just don’t feel any hatred or anger toward them at all.Tatsuro Hoshino

Hatsunori Hasegawa plays Kaoru’s late fiancé.

And of course, he also plays the character in the latter half of the drama who looks just like Kaoru’s former fiancé—the same Hatsunori Hasegawa, and both roles are incredibly cool! No wonder the heroine Kaoru falls for him…

Even with such powerful rivals in love in both the past and present, and even if he ends up being tossed around by Kaoru as a result, Tatsuro never blames her.

He’s just that big-hearted—tolerant in love, tolerant toward his partner.

“If I fall in love, I go all in” Tatsuro—honestly, you could almost revere him as a mentor in romance.

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