Chris Sullivan Quotes

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

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

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.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

I still believe in love, most definitely. I'm just going to let that take the lead.

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

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

I am totally open to being in love.

When love happens I won't shy away from sharing.

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

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

Love is to be nurtured, protected, and respected, and entered into with a clear mind and a sound heart.

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

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

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

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.

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.

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.