Chad Harbach Quotes

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.

People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile; it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.

I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody.

The first time you go on holiday is the test of a relationship, when you really find out if you're compatible or not. You find out what's annoying about that person, and whether or not you're willing to put up with that because you love them and you don't want to be alone.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

I love what I do, but it is hard to have a personal relationship when you're never home.

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

The like factor is a great thing. Love cannot burn constantly. It's very hard for it to be so intense. But it's wonderful.

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.

No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.

Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Let us clear a little space, And make Love a burial-place. He is dead, dear, as you see, And he wearies you and me.