Top 100 Quotes About Love Affairs
#1. The consequences of love affairs would stop me from my independent freedom of creative activity, and I don't intend to be stopped.
Sylvia Plath
#2. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?
Simon Pegg
#3. I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.
Drew Barrymore
#5. Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.
Wilson Mizner
#6. It is easy to have love affairs than to solve math problems but it is easy to learn if you trust God
Edwin Abejero
#7. The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.
Aleister Crowley
#8. Good content is the stuff of love affairs.
Tom Webster
#9. Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
Ellen Glasgow
#10. The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#11. Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.
Mason Cooley
#12. And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
Pico Iyer
#13. You will see the world. You will have love affairs with boys who see past a pretty face. You will be strong. You will call and tell me about it.
Laura Ruby
#15. Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.
E.W. Howe
#16. Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
Emily Carr
#17. If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.
Frank Sinatra
#18. Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn't dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth.
Maggie Shipstead
#19. I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.
Mikhail Prokhorov
#20. When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell
#21. Love affairs that start in blood tend to end up in blood.
David Gilmour
#22. Even in the most richly communicative and reciprocal love affairs, it is nearly impossible to sustain that initial state of rapture beyond a few weeks.
Ian McEwan
#24. The majority of love affairs are temporary. But that doesn't diminish the possibility the next one might become something more.
Ally Blake
#25. People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.
Ethel Person
#26. Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
Rebecca West
#27. All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
Al McGuire
#28. All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.
Katharine Kerr
#29. Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
Mason Cooley
#30. I was kind of in awe of Jet and Roxie, seeing as their stories had hit the paper then they'd had books written about their love affairs with their current husbands.
Kristen Ashley
#31. Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.
Napoleon Hill
#32. People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.
Mignon McLaughlin
#33. What kind of friendship have you had?
Or for that matter ... what kind of love affairs?
James Baldwin
#34. Any references to pregnancy or childbirth are coarse, and should be carefully side-stepped by the truly well-bred, as should intrusive comments on love-affairs.
Josephine Ross
#35. The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.
William Safire
#36. For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!
David Lee Roth
#37. Either way, the thought of entire lives lost - family celebrations, Christmases and birthdays, love affairs and bedtime stories, weddings and high school graduations - because of a misfire or unexplained chaos inside a person's brain, made her chest constrict. It wasn't fair.
Ellen Marie Wiseman
#38. I've always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they're at the right place at the right time and it's the right situation, it clicks. I've always felt that I've connected with screenplays. It's the romantic in me.
Robert Zemeckis
#39. The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land - all things born of the soul that can only be felt.
Anthony De Sa
#40. The armed forces knew he was a homosexual, that he was certain to fall in love with other fighting men, and the armed forces didn't want to put up with such love affairs.
Kurt Vonnegut
#41. Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and babies, found husbands, wrote letters and Broadway plays. We made ourselves up everyday.
Marita Golden
#42. Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane
Honore De Balzac
#43. Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
Stendhal
#44. ...I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us - the small unpleasantness rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.
Barbara Pym
#45. My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.
Peggy Lipton
#47. [Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
Fran Lebowitz
#48. Love affairs, in their beginnings, are all about the present. But there is a point in each
an event, an exchange, some other unseen trigger
which forces the past and the future back into focus.
Kate Morton
#49. Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.
Robertson Davies
#50. 'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
Manny Farber
#51. We joked that unrequited, or in this case unconsummated, love affairs are the only ones that last forever.
Barbara Demick
#52. If all the months and all their days could be like June weather in New York, there would be paradise on earth. Often, in early June, momentous decisions are made, power waxes strong, quick wars are fought, and love affairs are begun and ended.
Mark Helprin
#53. How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!
John Wain
#54. Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
Marilyn Monroe
#55. When you look back ... on your love affairs ... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.
Shirley Maclaine
#56. It seemed to me he was well rid of Maureen, if she really was disturbing him to the extent that it appeared; but being judicious about other people's love affairs is easy, often merely a sign one has not understood their force or complexity.
Anthony Powell
#57. It was astonishing to think that life had once been the sum of her current love-affairs. It was now the sum of her current problems.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#58. For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.
Helen Rowland
#59. Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days.
Jesse Harris
#60. Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.
Richard Bach
#61. All women on earth
and men, too for that matter
hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.
Lisa See
#62. You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.
Joshua Bell
#63. Children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
Mary Borden
#64. To make a current example, the world can find human interest in the death and the love affairs and the pallid addiction to cocaine of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
John Albert Macy
#65. Anyone familiar with the love affairs between men and women could have told them that theirs would soon be over.
Anna Quindlen
#66. Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.
Helen McCloy
#67. It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.
Melina Marchetta
#68. Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
E.F. Benson
#69. I think it's quite normal for people to have love affairs.
Claire Tomalin
#70. I'm afraid that most people cry more tears over their own affairs than over other people's massacres. Like, over broken love affairs. Or even toothache.
Kenneth Lillington
#71. You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.
Ann Brashares
#72. Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
George Foreman
#73. For although she had been, and still was, very much admired, she had got into the way of preferring unsatisfactory love affairs to any others, so that it was becoming almost a bad habit.
Barbara Pym
#74. It would be like those epic love affairs that exploded into existence and burned white hot for all eternity. The type of love that time and distance and death couldn't seperate
Marissa Meyer
#75. A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.
H.L. Mencken
#77. When it comes to your personal life, such as love and romance, girls should take a tip from the men and keep their affairs to themselves. Any man worth his salt regards his private life as his own. To kiss a girl and run and tell would mark him as a cad. Why doesn't that apply to girls also?
Carole Lombard
#78. That kind of love is always changing, you can never plant your feet on it. Trust me there will be others. But those kinds of affairs-you can't ever count on them like blood.
Anna Godbersen
#79. Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
E. M. Forster
#80. How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
W. Somerset Maugham
#81. Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs - and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.
Pawan Mishra
#82. When it comes to affairs of the heart, you need to look deeper than the plastic-coated shell
Daisy James
#83. A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#84. If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Andre Breton
#85. Indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to do so more and more, 11to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you; * 12so that you may command the respect of outsiders, and be dependent on nobody.
Anonymous
#87. That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.
Candace Bushnell
#88. When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
Baz Luhrmann
#89. I loved you for a thousand years and missed you in all of them.
Christina Strigas
#90. If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline.
Elisabeth Elliot
#91. A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.
Calvin Miller
#92. Affairs with unavailable people are a heroin high before nausea hits. Like smack they are destined to disappoint.
They begin with magic. Then the chasing after magic.
And finally the MOURNING FOR MAGIC.
Merri Lisa Johnson
#93. She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.
W. Somerset Maugham
#94. Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.
Saffron Aldridge
#95. It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force
William Woodruff
#96. Let's face it songs are about love, which is, I love you, I don't love you, come here, go away, I miss you, I don't miss you. I'm lonely. I'm not lonely. It's, it's all about affairs of the heart. And we can all relate to those.
Jeff Barry
#97. If it seems perfect, you're being played with.
Gina Wings
#98. The beauty with modest smile, whose secrecy of silent love had just been stolen, beamed at this wonderful offer and she replenished herself with his love as a carefree child cossetted with luxurious warmth after a cold shower.
Ashmita Acharya
#99. But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was always someone who was richer, more successful, more famous.. The idea of it was sometimes enough to make you want to give up.
Candace Bushnell
#100. I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.
Viswanathan Anand
