Albert Ellis Quotes

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It's intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you, but you can't stop going back to it, and it's pretty much the defining experience of a human being.

I'm a little bit afraid to give my heart away right now. It's very scary. I'm open to it, but I just want to make sure that I'm taking my time.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

I'm not real good at romance.

I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught.

I don't fear commitment and people in my world getting too close.

There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.

I've always got time for a relationship.