Quotes About Love

While desire focuses on the other, always in a somewhat fetishist manner, on a particular object, like breasts, buttocks and cock...love focuses on the very being of the other, on the other as it has erupted, fully armed with its being, into my life thus disrupted and re-fashioned

Le bonheur amoureux est la preuve que le temps peut accueillir l'éternité.

Love is necessary to satisfy the mind, ethics to satisfy the conscience, and spiritual seeking for peace of soul. Without food and clothes, the body becomes thin and weak. Without eroticism, the mind becomes restless and unsatisfied. Without virtue (ethics), the conscience goes astray. Without spirituality, the soul is degraded.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.

Qu'est-ce-que faire l'amour ? c'est languir après le tout proche, comme si une fois levés tout les obstacles, , dans le contact des peaux, et l'entralacement des epidermes, l'Autre refusait encore de se laisser prendre.

Fidelitatea mea nu datoreaz? nimic unei hot?râri, totul se datoreaz? uimirii permanente. Nu ?tiu dac? dragostea ve?nic? exist?, dar ?tiu c? exist? fiin?e infinit demne de a fi iubite.

Freud said that life is all about being able to love and to work. And I think it is about those things. But it's also about play. Play can bring back the past, but even if it doesn't, play is now; play is fun. More than ever, I have the feeling that all of what we do that counts is just love and work and play.

Je?li do?yjesz stu lat, to ja chce ?y? sto lat minus jeden dzie?, ?ebym nigdy nie musia? ?y? bez ciebie.

Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.

Dirty Freds... I love this filthy old place. I love the dust and the dirt, the crappy old books and the objects of art.

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

We both lacked the same thing in our childhoods - the love of a father... We both sought to fill that lack in our adult lives with family and love, as everyone does, but also with thrills and sometimes periods of recklessness. Luckily, I have always come back from my recklessness. Tommy Darling did not.

Even after being beaten down lower than I thought possible, I always bounced back. I still looked for love again.