Nicole Kidman Quotes

The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.

We grow up believing that love is like a fairytale that comes with all things good. What no one points out is how hard it is to live up to love or the tests along the way, small or big.

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know?

I don't believe love is fickle. I believe when you love someone, you are allowed to love from afar. You don't have to be with that person in order to love him.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

To really understand what love is, you've kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.

Real love is unconditional.

Love is what's left when being in love is gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.

But our love isn’t easy because it’s not meant to be. It requires work and sacrifice and protection. And I wouldn’t want it any other way, not right now, with the morning sun making the curtains glow and Her arms around my neck and the sounds of the street so far away. I’m in it for the long haul, I’m not going away.

Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.

Love isn’t only passion and joy. It’s also sacrifice.

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.

Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.

Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

I'm in love with one woman. I've been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known.

Love is hard.