Shelley Winters Quotes

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

I just want to love and be loved.

Don't let men fool you... we all want love; we just know that it can leave us very vulnerable, and we seek a woman who understands and protects that with her life.

If you can't trust, it's harder to love and if you can't love it's harder to be happy.

I like someone who can make me laugh and can make me feel secure.

I just want a nice guy who loves me and who I love.

He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are.

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.

It's all good when we making love, all I ask is don't take our love for granted, it's granted.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

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

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

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

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

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

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust.

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