Mark Gatiss Quotes

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

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

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?

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

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a more frightening experience than standing before Ahab's soldier with an arrow aimed at his heart; if the arrow had struck him, he would be dead -and the rest was up to God. But if love struck him, he alone would have to take responsibility for the consequences.

There's a danger in loving somebody too much, and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

What’s that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.

You happened to me,You scare me to death, you know. When you stormed into my life, you turned everything inside out. You upset all the things I believed about myself and made me think in new ways. I know who I used to be, but I’m finally ready to figure out who I am. Cynicism gets tiring, Isabel, and you’ve . . . rested me.And don’t you dare tell me you’ve stopped loving me back, because you’re still a better person than I am, and I’m counting on you to take more care with my heart than I took with yours.

I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.

Do you think I should stay away from him?" I asked in a scratchy voice. Todd took a long time to answer. "My advice is, if you're inclined in that direction, go with your eyes open. It's okay to let someone play you, Haven, as long as you know what's going on.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love. When my heart is open, and when life is making me feel like I have to open up myself completely. Love has a tendency to do that.

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

You can't just turn love on and off.

I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another.

I'm an emotional guy, so I don't have to worry about a girl trying to get me to open up.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.