Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Keeping you [alive] is no profit; losing you is no loss.

I gave everything I had to give to 'Devdas.' I knew I would never make a better love story because there is none.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found?

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble. Because I'm all over that dog, all the time.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

People kill for love. They die for love.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Everyone has a 'Majnu' in them. It's not about the sad or happy climax. It's a term we use to define someone who falls in love and faces problems.

The craziest thing I've done for love? Put my life on hold.

I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.