Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

You know what they say - love is blind.

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

I always just loved women, but more important than loving women, more important than sexual stuff, is I always believed in romance.

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

There is always some madness in love.

Love is a very important part of life, and you have to give in to it. But after a while it ceases to be such an important force in life, and that's the time when you should give in to age and stop doing it, if you don't have the impulse any more.

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

There was a difference between loving someone and being in love

I think women love a passionate love story.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

I fell in love at 18 when I was in college, and that's probably why I know what it's like to be in love, and I can express it in a better way.

I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.

Don't know much, but I know I love you.

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

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

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.