Quotes About One Way Love Affair

#1. 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

#2. Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, had not stopped thinking of
her for a single moment since Fermina Daza had rejected him out of
hand after a long and troubled love affair fifty-one years, nine months,
and four days ago.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. Writing a biography is not a love affair. It's not a marriage. It's a job, it's a piece of work.

Hermione Lee

#4. I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.

Gore Vidal

#5. In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.

John Piper

#6. When you love your work then it isn't work, it's your love affair.

Debasish Mridha

#7. She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.

Viraj J. Mahajan

#8. If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

Elvis Presley

#9. Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.

Hanya Yanagihara

#11. 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

#12. I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

Kenneth Tynan

#13. Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!

Benjamin Constant

#14. Finally I see that it's never been me, just a blanket that keeps you warm. Easily tossed along
when something flashier or someone prettier comes along. Your heart I held so carefully, I see, this was all just a game ...

Coco J. Ginger

#15. The truth is that I am enslaved ... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#16. Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.

Wilson Mizner

#17. Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.

Alice Hegan Rice

#18. I'd entered the city the way one enters any grand love affair: with no exit plan.

Cheryl Strayed

#19. The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Maurice Ravel

#20. It is majestic, this love affair of ours, so powerful and regal. It is the kind of love that fairtales are born of. The kind that often ends in tragedy.

Addison Moore

#21. Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Joseph Campbell

#22. The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [ ... ] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.

Laura Miller

#23. Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

Jean Cocteau

#24. So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

Leonard Cohen

#25. We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

Joycelyn Elders

#26. I wish I could hold your hand outside this room, go for a walk, sit on a patio, watch the world go by.

Leylah Attar

#27. I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.

Arnold Palmer

#28. You can still go home a loyal wife. - Warren Brown

T.M. Williams

#29. Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I'm concerned, there's no better love affair.

Gloria Gaynor

#30. For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#31. Gowdy had a love affair with the microphone and the fans had a love affair with him. American sports fans truly lost an icon, a legend who never felt he was bigger than anyone else. He had that humility that made him special, and he made everyone feel like they were so important.

Dick Vitale

#32. Jesus's solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God.

John Piper

#33. Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

Scott Dikkers

#34. Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.

Mason Cooley

#35. Christianity is not an ethical code. It is a love affair, a Spirit-filled way of living aimed at making us professional lovers of God and people.

Brennan Manning

#36. Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

Gore Vidal