Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

I've always been a slave to my heart.

You can't control where your heart goes.

But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it - it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

I really want to fall in love.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

Reason is not what decides love.

You fall in love, and it completely consumes you.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

If music be the food of love, play on.

No human creature can give orders to love.

You can't control who you fall in love with.

You don't know why you fall in love.

I can't help who I fall in love with.

I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.

Can love be controll'd by advice?

O love, how did you get here?

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

You don't choose who you love.