Julian Fellowes Quotes

I would say love is something everybody talks about, and the need for love is one of the most basic needs of man, namely the experience of union with another being - of becoming one with another being.

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.

It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.

Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.

The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.

I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer. Not to love is to suffer.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.

What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?...Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

All we really want is love's confusing joy.

I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.