Context

This line was sung by Celine Dion in "Because You Loved Me," written by Diane Warren from the album Falling Into You (1996).

When you're directing a tragic romantic drama starring attractive actors, who do you call to get an emotional song to play over the credits? The answer—especially in the 1990s—is always Celine Dion, the Québécois chanteuse with almost unlimited vocal range.

In classic Celine fashion, Falling Into You was a huge success, but "Because You Loved Me," the lead single from the album, became an Oscar-nominated hit because of its use in Up Close and Personal, a movie about an up-and-coming female news reporter, who dies after she gets caught in a prison riot. It stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford, and of course, they're romantically inclined.

The song itself is an anthem of pure love and understanding. And it fits with the movie because Redford's character serves as a mentor to Pfeiffer's character, helping her become a good news reporter while also falling in love with her.

Where you've heard it

If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

Public confessions of love are kind of tacky, and the tackiness increases ten-fold when your confession of love is a quote from a song by the queen of melodramatic love.