Neil Gaiman Quotes

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire.

If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

My mum told me that the best thing you could give a woman was attention.

If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.

Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

I am oftentimes the ear for some people that I know and love. Which I like being. I don't know if I'd like being a marriage counselor, though, because that's too deep for me.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.