Thomas Otway Quotes

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Love conquers all.

Love's stronger than fear and death.

We're planning on being married for a long, long time.

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Being engaged was the best feeling in the world - that someone wants to spend the rest of their life with you.

Devoutly the teachers point out huge fumigated domes; but beneath the statues there's no love, no love beneath the eyes set in crystal. Love is there, in flesh ripped by thirst, in the tiny hut struggling against the flood; love is there, in ditches where snakes of hunger wrestle, in the sad sea that rocks dead gulls, and in the darkest stinging kiss under pillows.

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

Marriage is wonderful.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

There is no love without suffering.

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

They say love will find a way. I know determination will.

I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists.

My wife and I love each other very much.