William James Quotes

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

You use a different part of your heart with girls.

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

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

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

You fall in love with someone, you don't know this person yet, and you get to know this person. That's what happens when I fall in love with a character, and I want to be this person.

There's a difference between lust and passionate love. Lust can't just creep in. You'll not find it where true love exists, but it has power enough to shatter the world you've worked so hard to create with love, and sometimes, it suddenly changes how you perceived love to begin with. Love then doesn't live there anymore.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

I feel most sexy when I'm in love. My stomach flips. I get butterflies.

Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

It wasn't Liza Minnelli. It was the woman I loved.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?

We can only love what we know.

To saya man is fallen in love,or that he is deeply in love,or up to the ears in love,and sometimes even over head and ears in it,carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:this is recurring again to Plato's opinion, which, with all his divinityship,I hold to be damnable and heretical:and so much for that. Let love therefore be what it will,my uncleToby fell into it.

If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries.

But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.

I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.