Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Pain is love.

In order to keep the love going, you want to keep it fun.

When we get into a relationship of any kind, it is because we want to share, we want to enjoy, we want to have fun, we don't want to be bored. If we look for a partner, it is because we want to play, we want to be happy and enjoy what we are.

Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you.

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.

If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

Sweet is pleasure after pain.