Anderson East Quotes

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.

I think love isn't doomed, of course, but in real life, love doesn't always work out.

Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Everybody knows that love goes away.

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

I'm doomed romantically. I try to find a formula for everything in life, and that includes romance, but my methods haven't proven successful because there is no formula in romance.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

We keep secrets from people that we love because we're afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we're afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we're afraid of what is, and what can't be.

I thought I was loved.

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.