Robert Southey Quotes

If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

I think a lot of times we're so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it's all directed around that love, and if you don't have that love, how sad you are.

If you're with someone who makes you happy in your personal life, then you're happy with where you're at.

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

This whole thing about a woman staying alone and being happy is just a myth. Everyone needs someone in their lives.

I don't miss being single at all.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.

I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married!

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

Relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery - a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of. I’m not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what’s on my bedside table rather than what’s in my bed.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.