Patrick deWitt Quotes

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

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.

It's such a liability to love another person.

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.

If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

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

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

When you love someone, they have a piece of you, one of the most important pieces of you, and that's your heart. And when you decide to love freely and love hard - like I do myself - that's a risk that you're taking - getting hurt.

I have the purest intent when it comes to love. But it doesn't always work out that way. That's the truth. But you know, it's still pretty fun when you're in the moment.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love-it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.

If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving.

Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.