Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quotes

Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

It's easy to idealize someone that you don't know.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Love between a man and a woman is inevitably complicated, corrupted, and obstructed by an unequal balance of power.

Hindi films tend to over-romanticise situations.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.

The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust and love that I’m very committed to. These guys would die for each other, and it’s very beautiful. But at the same time, you can’t keep that safety. Things have to go wrong, bad things have to happen.

How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.

August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of the love is weighted by how much better.

I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water - the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the risk of falling in love.

People who hate often do so with great conviction. What we need are more people who love with conviction.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.