David Sedaris Quotes

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Sure, yes, there are smoking-hot girls. But my girlfriend's smoking hot, my wife, whatever.

You fall in love with someone, you don't know this person yet, and you get to know this person. That's what happens when I fall in love with a character, and I want to be this person.

Love and sex and whatever, they are - different. I could say I'm in love with someone who is 90 years old and teaches acting and lives in Ohio.

I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?

There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.

There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There's only sex at first sight.

They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?

My love has eyes blue as the sky. Her warm, bright smile makes me want to try To give her the world, And when she's curled Up in my arms where I can feel her touch, I realize again that I love her so much. My world has turned from black to white. Kissing in starlight, basking in sunlight, dancing at midnight.' ~John's poem for Belle

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.