Johnny Mathis Quotes

Never say never, I find I get claustrophobic in a relationship.

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.

Big romantic gestures are only as strong as the relationships they happen in.

Romance means making yourself vulnerable.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

I don't fall in love easily. It's odd; one of the first things I think about when I go out with a woman is what it would be like to be married to her. And yet I have a tough time committing.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

Nothing is inevitable with relationships.