Alain de Botton Quotes

How we need another soul to cling to.

Relationships have been a way of life and I don't regret being in one ever.

It's a lot easier to find a friend on television than love.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?

I think one needs a companion at some point in life.

In the early days, I was everything to David. I was his creative partner, his lover, his soul mate.

The overall concept of 'Only You' is a reflection on the illusion of love, how we confront, understand and manifest our self identities within relationships.

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

What's life without love? You can accomplish everything you want in life, but without anyone to share it with, what's it really worth?

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I find running life quite hard, and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

My mistake in my relationships has been to feel that I can do it all on my own: 'I don't need a man.' That is definitely a mistake. Women generally want to feel loved and appreciated. It's something that I am working on every day, trust me! It's a challenge for me to do that.

It would be nice to have someone to go back to, a girl to call at the end of the night after a long day.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.