Hermann Hesse Quotes

It's hard to talk about love without sounding either cheesy, or revealing too much personal stuff.

There is nothing you can control about love.

That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

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.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

You may not be able to help whom you are attracted to, but you can choose to whom you love and how. That is to say that love is a commitment that your heart and your mind make. It is an active and ever-evolving process, a conscious choice that takes effort and maintenance.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.