M. Scott Peck Quotes

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

I'm not opposed to falling in love.

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say.

This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.

There are so many kinds of love, and they're all very intense for me.

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

I'm romantic to the point of embarrassment.

I think it's one of the great enrichments of life, romance.

To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that.

I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.

I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.

Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.

Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)

Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

There is nothing like love. You should try it.” Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.