Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.

so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

I think 'Tattoo's a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you to say all those things.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

Don't know much, but I know I love you.

Love is to be two and at the same time one.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

I would say love is something everybody talks about, and the need for love is one of the most basic needs of man, namely the experience of union with another being - of becoming one with another being.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward. "Good," I tell him. "And just so you know… I'm never giving it back.

Of course I know who you are. You're my girl. I love you.