Patricia Highsmith Quotes

What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

I feel like I'm too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me.

To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me.

I have spent a decade of my life dating. I am thrilled about never going on another bad date for the rest of my life. I'm also so excited to learn and grow with the person I respect most in this world.

We all want to find someone and be loved.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

People don't need sex so much as they need to be listened to.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious, rewarded, and ready for more.

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

I need some challenges in love or I'm bored.

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