Guy de Maupassant Quotes

You can't just turn love on and off.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

I look at all good things with a bit of a dark lens, I suppose, especially with something like love.

If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Since the beginning of time, love has been the source of both the highest bliss and the heaviest burdens. At the heart of misery from the days of Adam until today, you will find the love of wrong things. And at the heart of joy, you will find the love of good things."And the greatest of all good things is God.

Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's history when that torch was extinguished. In all ages, in all climes, among all people, there has been true, pure, and unselfish love.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is the pyre, such is the offering; but the ethereal spark must come from heaven, that lights the sacrifice.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.

Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas!

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.

What am I going to do with you? Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me!

There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body." - Jean-Claude

I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.

Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.