Alain Badiou Quotes

I am convinced, that when a man tells a woman he loves her, he only means that he desires her; and that the only total love in this world is that of a father for his son.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

You and I have been through too much together. We're too close, too connected. I wasn't that crazy on spirit when I said you're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. Our backgrounds don't matter. What we have is bigger than that. I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

There's nothing like having somebody that loves every single bit of you, and that you love the same way, to actually, really share it with.

He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him." - Lucinda Price, Rapture

Don’t you see?” I said. “He could change every detail, but he couldn’t change her.” “But why?” His obtuseness frustrated me. “Because he was in love with her!” I said. “Because, to him, she was the only thing that was real.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

When you are in love with a man or a woman, the love you feel does not come from him or her; it is the love flowing from you own heart that you feel. Your partner is simply giving you an excuse to love. Love is always found flowing in your heart, not in your family, lover, career or art.

Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific.

Let's talk a little about love. Sometimes you meet somebody and you have what is known as a relationship and things can go great. If things go great you have a great relationship. Sometimes it doesn't go so great and I call that a relationshit!

The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

If you think you love me, then you don’t know what love is,' Gabriel said. 'Love has to be reciprocated for it to be real.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion of desire. Caring about something may be, in the end, nothing more than a certain complex mode of wanting it. However, simply attributing desire to a person does not in itself convey that the person cares about the object he desires.

Rather than someone that i can't take my eyes off, I want to find someone that I can't take my heart off

Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.

Love is a worn-out word. People love their cat, they love their house. I've never been in love with anyone but myself.

For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.