Ella Maillart Quotes

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.

That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

We are wired to find love.

I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.

Life is best when you are in love.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!

I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

I really desire a partner.

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

That concept is quite universal, looking for love.

I have been driven by romance my whole life because I crave the intimacy that comes with that.

Everyone yearns for love, and everyone struggles for love.