Marcel Proust Quotes

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic.

I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.

I believe that the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach. It's a little further south.

People will always be interested in relationships, infidelity and sex and everything connected to things in their own lives.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

Every romance does not lead to sex.

Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.

You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.

Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.