Garry Shandling Quotes

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'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that.

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.

Real human emotion is always interesting.

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

If you want to love a person, you should know that there are tears, and there can even be hatred inside of it. I think a love really includes all of that.

Even bros have depth, complexity, and emotion.

It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.

I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.

You may not be able to help whom you are attracted to, but you can choose to whom you love and how. That is to say that love is a commitment that your heart and your mind make. It is an active and ever-evolving process, a conscious choice that takes effort and maintenance.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

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

I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

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.

I think my understanding of different types of love has certainly deepened.

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.