Marcel Proust Quotes

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about.

Love is very complicated and it's never black and white, as I'm sure we all know in our lives.

You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

I majored in psychology, and I still love listening to people's problems.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.

My mother taught me to ask people about the things they love.

You want there to be some magical answer that will just make everything clear and easy to understand, and that's just not the way love works.

You learn a lot about people when you live together.

Even bros have depth, complexity, and emotion.

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I just can't understand, I have to "poem" my way through it. For that reason I write a lot about family, because my family confuses me and I'm always trying to figure them out. I write a lot about love, because love is continually confusing in all of its many glorious aspects.

Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.