Caroline Knapp Quotes

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.

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

I'd rather grow alone with my girlfriends than with someone I'm not in love with.

What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married!

A boyfriend has so much to do with a woman blossoming.

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

If you're with someone who makes you happy in your personal life, then you're happy with where you're at.

My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.

A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.

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.

Everybody says, 'When you have kids, you really get away from yourself.' But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it.

When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house, RSPCA activities. And the relationship that you have with animals, you can get that from your children: that unquestioning love and adoration and equal need.

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.

I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.

I've found a much better love life in older age.

That's a huge part of being a human being: looking for love and finding a partner in this world. When you constantly play characters who don't have that life, it feels incomplete and not totally human.

One of the best decisions I ever made was getting a dog.