Simon Van Booy Quotes

It's easy to fall in love, but it's a lot harder to sustain love.

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.

Falling in love is really relatively easy compared to staying in love and building a family that lasts.

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

Free love never works.

I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.

I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

The goal is not to get into a relationship; the goal is to be in a relationship.

You like someone, you court each other, you get into a relationship. You're answerable to each other. Whereas, the non-answerability of dating, my God, I don't know if I would ever be able to.

Love is never easy. It never is. And I'm not just talking about girl and guy, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband and wife. I'm talking about family, friends - all of that.

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

I just want a nice guy who loves me and who I love.

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!