Andre Maurois Quotes

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

Love can complete you. It can also destroy you.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

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

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

To really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing. Just being an actress in Hollywood is very vulnerable. To let all these other people decide whether you're really of value or not, you have to really be strong to know that, of course, they have a right to their opinion, but their opinion doesn't matter as far as yourself.

it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne "It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.