Top 100 The Love Affair Quotes
#1. I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.
Gore Vidal
#2. The love affair you seek is with yourself.
Alan Cohen
#3. Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
#4. The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship.
Nathaniel Branden
#5. The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.
Diane Ackerman
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
Joycelyn Elders
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.
Scott Dikkers
#17. I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn't realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life,
Arnold Palmer
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.
Viraj J. Mahajan
#22. 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
#23. Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. The truth is that I am enslaved ... in one vast love affair with 70 children.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
#28. Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.
Wilson Mizner
#29. If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.
Martin Jacques
#30. There is no greater luxury than meditation. Meditation is the last luxury, because it is the ultimate love affair.
Osho
#31. In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.
Marguerite Duras
#32. In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
Edward Abbey
#33. Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.
Ian Dury
#34. 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
#35. Good content is the stuff of love affairs.
Tom Webster
#36. She felt the lurch of a head rush. The boy who had not paid attention to her; the man who'd embarked on an affair knowing she could never be his; at the last moment he was asking for more. A piece of her was elated. But she was also struck by his selfishness.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#38. The late Mavis Gallant told the Paris Review that writing is like "a love affair: the beginning is the best part. I write every day. It is not a burden. It is the way I live.
Mavis Gallant
#39. I'd entered the city the way one enters any grand love affair: with no exit plan.
Cheryl Strayed
#40. The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?
Stephen Rea
#41. Life is the literary result of my passionate love affair between self and the universe...
Curtis R. Smith
#42. Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?
Tennessee Williams
#43. She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he knew it would be more than friendship. He was too young to name that feeling then. But love...above all relationships knows no age.
Viraj J. Mahajan
#44. The way I figure it when a man's in love with a girl, He's got a right to ask her to marry him. Any girl, Anybody's girl
Robert Mitchum
#45. Holiness and hypocrisy strolled down the dirty streets hand in hand like a sick twisted love affair.
Renee Thebeau
#47. 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
#48. As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.
Michael Dirda
#49. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. My lifelong love affair with science
Carl Sagan
#50. I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.
Steve Antin
#51. At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
Mignon McLaughlin
#52. I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
Alice Waters
#53. I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.
Kandyse McClure
#55. Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?
Robin Hobb
#56. To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair - chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.
H.G.Wells
#57. You have an affair to get for yourself what you wish would come from the person you love the most. And then you have broken her heart and she can never give you any of it ever again.
Ariel Levy
#58. While each of us must walk this path alone, we need not do so without the empathy, the encouragement and the love of others who are travelling, or have travelled, this terrain - or those who having lived life long and deep and can meet us there, with wisdom and compassion.
Meryn G. Callander
#59. Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.
Arlene Francis
#60. 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
#61. Though the little voices cautioned it was time to settle, settle in, settle for, settle down, I muzzled these mutterings. One more love affair before marriage. One more trip before stagnation. One more adventure before I turn in my car keys and close the front door.
Lili Wright
#62. (Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, "I'm going in! I'm going in!" like a manic cave diver.)
Maureen Johnson
#63. Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death. Take it that, anybody that falls in love is either unconscious or dead.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#64. Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.
Peter Lindbergh
#65. 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
#66. I'm a stage actor. You know, I was - I cut my teeth on stage, you know. So I've always had a love affair with the stage, first off, what I was raised in, you know.
Glynn Turman
#67. Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
Mark Shriver
#68. Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.
Sebastian Roche
#69. When you've parked the second car in the garage, and installed the hot tub, and skied in Colorado, and wind-surfed in the Caribbean, when you've had your first love affair and your second and your third, the question will remain, where does the dream end for me?
Mario Cuomo
#70. A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.
Brian Topp
#72. I was somewhat put out to find that recurrent projections in the mind of the images of either of them, Jean or Suzette, did not in the least exclude that of the other. That was when I began to suspect that being in love might be a complicated affair.
Anthony Powell
#73. They were too near to me. I loved them to much. And the love overtaking me and combined with the fact that I was going to spend another evening alone, doing nothing with it, being waited down to motionlessness by my own actions made me want to get it over with and fucking be alone.
Courtney Maum
#74. Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident.
Joyce Carol Oates
#75. 'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
Nancy Horan
#76. It is true love because when he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the middle of the street, I always hope he's dead.
Judith Viorst
#77. I'm always dictated to be what I want to do, and I have a love affair with every movie I've done, and some of them have turned out good, and some of them have turned out not so good. But regardless, the making of them, or that love affair, has always been a great experience.
Tony Scott
#78. Your psychological structure is a stone wall. If you are willing, every moment of your life can be a fantastic experience. Just the act of inhaling and exhaling can be a tremendous love affair.
Sadhguru
#79. The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
Dorothy Parker
#80. Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.
Plato
#81. The best narrative is one of infinite love. A spiritual affair
one not of the material world. Intermingled, with no beginning nor end
it will always stand the test of time.
Terry A. O'Neal
#82. You're not the same after, say, an incredible love affair that went very well or a love affair that went bad. Or something that happens to your health, or something that happened to somebody else's health, that is close to you. Or something that happens professionally.
Antonio Damasio
#83. In every love affair, only the moon is free of charge.
Lara Biyuts
#84. All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.
Katharine Kerr
#85. Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
Francis Ford Coppola
#86. Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.
Rachel Kushner
#87. The mountain trees that grew between the pines were a brilliant blaze of fall colors, like fire against the emerald green of the pines, firs and pruces. And it was, as I'd told myself long ago, the year's last passionate love affair before it grew old and died from the frosty bite of winter.
V.C. Andrews
#88. Our society's love affair with mechanical devices that respond at a button-touch ill prepares us to deal with the unruly organic mind that dwells within. Anything that does not comply must be broken or poorly designed, people now suppose, including their hearts.
Thomas Lewis
#89. 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
#90. Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#91. I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged carpet cleaner named Bill, who lived with his Mom, and his love affair with Anna, a drug-addicted prostitute. I made that when I was 16.
Yony Leyser
#92. How long will you be gone?"
"Forever, perhaps. I don't know. It depends upon a good many things.
Kate Chopin
#93. I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.
Lauren Weisberger
#94. So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.
Robert Breault
#95. When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.
Honore De Balzac
#96. There can be there ought to be no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#97. The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
Quentin Crisp
#98. The reader cannot even begin to see the sense of a story that may well seem to him a very wild one, until he understands that to this great mystic his religion was not a thing like a theory but a thing like a love-affair.
G.K. Chesterton
#99. I'm out of the equation, an innocent bystander at the major love affair Joan is having with Joan
Francine Prose
#100. I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.
Roy Keane
