Paulo Coelho Quotes

Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

Then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

Alone because love was one of those feelings that you could never have control of. And she needed to be in control. She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud.

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

I guess the difference between Gin and me is that when Gin got shut in the barn she thought Edmond didn't love her anymore but because I could feel Edmond out there somewhere always loving me I didn't have to howl all night.

Love is only as strong as your weakest moment.

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway

love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair.

Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

Only love can break a heart, only love can mend it again.

I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.

To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It is a substitute for love. Love is dangerous: to be in love is to be in a storm, constantly. You need courage and you need awareness, and you are to be ready for anything. There is no security in love; love is insecure. Marriage is a security: the registry office, the police, the court are behind it. The state, the society, the religion - they are all behind it. Marriage is a social phenomenon. Love is individual, personal, intimate.

But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.