Honore de Balzac Quotes

And where love ends, hate begins

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

Love inevitably forces one to look at their own life, and that's either a good thing or a bad thing depending on what the person has going on or what they've experienced. The search for love and heartbreak is a fairly university condition and everybody will take away from it something different.

Love child!" What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.

it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.

You'll always love the person, if you're sensible. But you get a lot of people, especially in divorces and separations, doing a lot of damage to themselves, because they can't figure out that they actually still love this person, but not in their original way.

Apart from Love, which is not a human emotion, of all the rest my last words would best read: It's all for the experience.

Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.

It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

Most men know what they hate, few what they love.

The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

It's nice to feel loved instead of feeling hated.

Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human.

you have to love something before you can hate it.