Michel Houellebecq Quotes

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

'Call Me by Your Name' is essentially the universal nature of love.

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

Simon stopped breathing until her forefinger touched his nipple, and then his hand shot up to cover hers. "I want you," he said. Her eyes flicked downward, and her lips curved ever so slightly. "I know." "No," he groaned, pulling her closer. "I want to be in your heart. I want-" His entire body shuddered when their skin touched. "I want to be in your soul.

Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.” “Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh. He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.

I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake

When we kissed, it didn't matter that I had been a wolf hours ago, or that I would be a wolf again. It didn't matter that a thousand snares were laid for us as soon as we left this moment. All that mattered was this: our noses touching, the softness of his mouth, the ache inside me.

It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.

I believe in love at first sight, and I feel sometimes you have to just be open to whatever love is and let yourself fall.

I really want to fall in love.

I do want love. Genuine love.

Reason is not what decides love.

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

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

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved.

Love is a hole in the heart.

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.

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

I don't think when I make love.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.