Halle Berry Quotes

Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.'

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.

I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.

To me, the best writing points to something literal or common but is also nuanced: The moment when somebody is telling you they love you while simultaneously disappointing you. Everybody's experienced that.

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

The most important thing I can teach my kids is that you can't put your value in looks. Presence is based upon magnitude. You can pretend to have an air about you but it is quickly deflated, you cannot deflate presence. Presence walks into a room and surrounds and fills anything that's in that room without trying to demand it, it takes over. It can come from a smile. Like I said, love makes you beautiful. What is beautiful radiates.

I...have a woman in my arms who has suffered greatly and desperately needs to believe once again that she is beautiful.

A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it

Whoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved.

You're so beautiful but that's not why I love you, I'm not sure you know this but the reason I love you is you

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

You're not sick you're just in love.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Everybody knows that love goes away.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.