Oriana Fallaci Quotes

Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.

Love doesn't last.

Love cannot burn constantly.

Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.

I've been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I've loved and the ideas I've embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it.

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

When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it’s my guitar because, really, it’s what I love and it’s what takes up all my time.

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?

A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.

Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship - because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone.

Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren't they?

To do something that will just fly away is kind of special. Every time somebody tell you they love you, that "I love you" flies away, and you wait until the next one.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone,” I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control.