Quotes About Amour

The scariest movies, to me, are like Michael Haneke's 'Amour.'

Pour moi, quand enfin je prendrai la mesure de la rupture, il s'agira d'un déchirement, d'une souffrance très pure. J'ai toujours pensé que c'était moi qui souffrirais le plus. J'ai même considéré que je serais le seul à souffrir.

The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party.

How nice," said Lymond, "to have simple emotions. No trouble with principles; no independence of thought; no resistance to suggestion; no nonsense about adult behaviour when it comes to one's own amour propre.

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know.

L'amore riunisce la certezza e il dubbio: si è sicuri di essere amati tanto quanto se ne dubita, e non a momenti alterni, ma in una simultaneità sconcertante. Provare a sbarazzarsi di questa sfumatura dubitativa facendo mille domande alla propria amata, significa negare la natura radicalmente ambigua dell'amore.

L'amour universel est un acte de générosité qui suppose une lucidité douloureuse.

Unlike Grand Hotel and Titanic, but like The Wild Party and Sweet Smell of Success, our last special show was a failure. However, the previous two titles at least ran a few months. Amour (2002) lasted two weeks. This is a historically instructive show even so in its return to first principles, as a modern version of what Jacques Offenbach was doing when he invented musical comedy in the 1850s and '60s: not in his format but in his spirit.

Legrand shares with his predecessor that rare ability to joke in music just as his librettist jokes in words. The composer has in fact termed Amour "an opéra-bouffe"—Offenbach's own form.

the amorous subject wonders, not whether he should declare his love to the loved being,..., but to what degree he should conceal the turbulences of his passion, his desires, his distresses: in short, his excesses.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

no argument of his could hope to dam the flow of words that poured over the spillway of Price Macomber's lips.

A pang of love and regret; the name of an old amour on your cruise ship's passenger list.

Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.

Mon Amour, Toujours. All My Love

Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this. And it seemed in a murmuring pulse of thought he gave me to know that I had been very foolish to think it would not be so. Who can love us, you and I, as we can love each other, he whispered and it seemed his lips actually moved.

Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this.

I'll come no more behind your scenes, David [Garrick]; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.

quia multum amavit.

There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.

May your first word be adventure and last word love.

One kiss, two lips. One love, two bodies. (Un baiser, ce sont deux lèvres. - Un amour, ce sont deux corps.)

the main task of the romance writer then––to get us bonded to the characters so we will want to follow them on their journey to amour.  Example 1: Secret Star by Nora Roberts