Top 100 Love Affair Quotes
#1. The emotional equivalent of jet lag is the end of a love affair and yet you, foolish and besotted lover, won't let go. You're still keeping time by his sun and moon, waking when he wakes, and sleeping only when he closes his eyes.
James Oseland
#2. Often, breaking integrity means repeatedly doing things we do not love with people we do not care for. Isn't life meant to be a passionate love affair with our work, our faith, and those we are blessed to know, care for, and serve?
Brendon Burchard
#3. I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.'
Darren Star
#4. Marriage ... is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
Joseph Campbell
#6. Unbelievably, while many non-governmental organizations like Amnesty International and America's Watch have denounced the human rights situation in Cuba, there has been a continuing love affair on the part of the media and many intellectuals with Fidel Castro.
Armando Valladares
#7. A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#8. The front door is painted a rich, bright red. The corners of my mouth curl into a smile. Have I mentioned my love affair with red? It's a beautiful, trusting relationship. Nothing coated in such a wondrous color could ever be bad.
Victoria Scott
#9. The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and, without any intimations of my own ludicrousness, spent two years showing God what I thought of Him by letting myself go.
Glen Duncan
#10. In a love affair, most seek an eternal homeland. Others, but very few, eternal voyaging. These latter are melancholics, for whom contact with mother earth is to be shunned. They seek the person who will keep far from them the homeland's sadness. To that person, they remain faithful.
Walter Benjamin
#11. Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.
Julie Christie
#12. A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
Amy Hempel
#13. The FA Cup means a lot. There is a real passion here for the competition which you don't get elsewhere. It's a love affair. It's part and parcel of living up here. People might think I'm daft, but I'm not wrong; I'd rather win the Cup than the League.
Alan Shearer
#14. We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
Lillian Hellman
#15. I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
Sally Mann
#16. Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them - preferring, instead, the comfort and child-handling practicalities of a pair of trainers.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#17. Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
#18. I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.
Solange Knowles
#19. A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
Michael Marino
#20. I've just had an unhappy love affair, so I don't see why anybody else should have a good time.
Douglas Adams
#21. We heard that girls who had left to get married were being deported with their husbands. A girl who had a love affair with a French prisoner was sent to a concentration camp, and the Frenchman was executed.
Edith Hahn Beer
#22. He was born of a human-fungal love affair that shook the court of Onddo. His mother was a human, a princess of the court, by the name of 'Agatha'. His father was the notorious pirate captain, AGARICUS AUGUSTUS - THE PRINCE.
Orrin Grey
#23. We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Mignon McLaughlin
#24. I have a very long and beautiful love affair with Elvis Presley. I own every record he ever made, so I have about 150, almost 200 records of his. So much that I haven't even listened to all of them. I see an Elvis record that I don't have, and I'll buy it and put it in my collection.
Alexandra Shipp
#25. I'm going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.
Jennifer Estep
#27. Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.
Oprah Winfrey
#28. Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
Mavis Gallant
#29. Why him?He was as likely to offer me security and safety as a violent terrorist holding a gun to my head.So why I had chosen him?Because he had charmed me into a love affair,had truly convinced me he was madly in love with me.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#30. Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.
Jane Urquhart
#31. Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
Mel Torme
#32. Helping to match people to the book that would change their life, or make them fall in love, or get over a love affair gone wrong. And for the children, she could show them where to dive into a crocodile-infested river, or fly through the stars, or open the door of a wardrobe...
Jenny Colgan
#33. A man who had a love affair was considered wicked but romantic; a woman who did the same was a whore.
Ken Follett
#34. I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.
Priyanka Chopra
#35. This chick had a serious love affair going on with my hair. I wondered if I should offer to leave her alone with it. Seriously, if she started rubbing her face against it, I was out.
Tiffany King
#36. I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.
Daniel Alarcon
#37. Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.
Francois Lelord
#38. For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#39. Don't make your journey toward success a competition - make it a love affair.
Debasish Mridha
#40. I like to put good food in my mouth, and while I am aware of the calories I ingest, instead of cutting them I make them count. I have a full-on love affair with food, appreciating the different cultures and processes within it.
Brittany Gibbons
#41. My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.
Debra Messing
#42. Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#43. The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
Lionel Blue
#44. The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
Agnes De Mille
#45. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.
Freddy Fender
#46. I think I'm just really in love with women, and I love to see them looking incredibly, truly beautiful. I think every time a woman wears one of my dresses, you know, in a matter of speaking, I'm having a little love affair with her!
Prabal Gurung
#47. We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.
Norman Mailer
#48. Margot used to like describing men as 'my unhappy love affair.' But hadn't that presumed the existence of a happy love affair that made the others unimportant? What is unhappy is the only kind Margo ever has?
Francine Prose
#49. The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.
Sophie Kinsella
#50. It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
W. Somerset Maugham
#51. To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.
Andre Maurois
#52. Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.
Howard Schultz
#53. Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.
David Mamet
#54. I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.
Marcus Samuelsson
#55. When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
Alfred Kazin
#56. A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.
Robert Genn
#57. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of what's out; sometimes it's not as deep in terms of what's out. So it's definitely an evolution. I don't ever claim to be a hip-hop head.
Solange Knowles
#58. For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.
Anthony Bourdain
#59. Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.
Ron Chernow
#60. Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.
Betty White
#61. I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.
Angelina Jolie
#62. You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
Terence McKenna
#63. The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
Maurice Ravel
#64. Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.
Stewart Udall
#65. I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
Chita Rivera
#66. But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?
Joan Wickersham
#67. For the outsider
and everyone in this world is an outsider in relation to everyone else
something always seems worse or better than it does for the one directly concerned, whether that something is good luck or bad luck, an unhappy love affair or an 'artistic decline'.
Heinrich Boll
#68. Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.
Frank Popoff
#69. I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
Tennessee Williams
#70. I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.
Emma Watson
#71. I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.
Nicki Chapman
#72. You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
Francoise Sagan
#73. I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.
Caspar Weinberger
#74. We aren't caught up in your love affair
Lorde
#75. I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.
Merle Haggard
#76. It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.
Gloria Stuart
#77. Love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.
Graham Greene
#78. It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.
Sophie Kinsella
#79. I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as with the last long chord of a record, the back cover crinkling closed, I could swear I heard a door click shut.
Marya Hornbacher
#80. Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#81. Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.
Kim Cattrall
#82. An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.
Mason Cooley
#83. When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
Mario Benedetti
#84. If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair.
Elvis Presley
#85. It's weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I've done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live there. It's very, very strange for me. That's where my daughter was born, at UCSF. I have this huge attachment to San Francisco. It's like a love affair.
Kaskade
#86. Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood ... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.
Kenneth Anger
#87. Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore
#88. A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
George Bernard Shaw
#89. You run?"
"Yup. I have a love affair going on with food
Toni Aleo
#90. I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about.
Graham Greene
#91. Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.
Gary Busey
#92. A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.
Francoise Sagan
#93. I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#94. It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.
Maya Angelou
#95. Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.
Julio Olalla
#96. I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair.
David Duchovny
#97. Two sexy cowboys and one curvy female. Read this book to watch a love affair develop. - Ashlynn Tate
Scarlett Avery
#98. There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.
Jason Silva
#99. Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
G.K. Chesterton
#100. There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
Tennessee Williams
