Honore de Balzac Quotes

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

I'm very close with my family and friends.

Partners fall in and out of love, but they still need each other.

It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.

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.

In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I believe that there is an important part of every human being that is defined in terms of their significant other: how we choose our partner, and how we behave when we are with them. And that is the part that interests me. How that part of the personality is forged doesn't just interest me, it fascinates me.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.