Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

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.

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.

Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.

I think that you first have to understand that our sexuality is a gift that God has given us. Then you grow in that respect and love with your spouse or girlfriend to-be-wife. You respect her! Then you realize you're loving their heart, their soul and you grow together.

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

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.

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

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

Free love never works.

I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.

There is nothing you can control about love.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

I think love isn't doomed, of course, but in real life, love doesn't always work out.

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

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

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

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.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

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.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.