Jane Campion Quotes

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

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

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

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

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

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.

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

Love makes the most careful man wreckless.

The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party.

I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

Love of my life, I love you so. Love of my life, don't ever go.

love at any age takes everything you've got.

I am naive when it comes to love, you know what I mean? I do believe in falling in love at first sight and things like that.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.