Harry Harlow Quotes

Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?

I definitely fall in love quickly, and I'm very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite

Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life.

Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.

I cannot live one day without love.

But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.

"And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death.

Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet it’s something that’s very natural to care about—it’s a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: it’s a significant emotional choice people make.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.

Talk not of love: thou never knew'st its force.

When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.