Anna Louise Strong Quotes

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

I think one needs a companion at some point in life.

How we need another soul to cling to.

I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

I'm not searching for that magical Daddy, but I would like to find a partner in life, because I feel like finally I know what love is and what love isn't.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely.

If one is aware and alive, then it is one's relationships that make you live. It makes life worth living.

Being with someone makes you happier and more content as a human being and takes your personality to greater heights and vice versa. And I don't think that's being too demanding.

Life is not about going from man to man.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

I've been standing at water coolers for the past thirty years talking to women about their love lives, and here's what I've learned: Eventually, most women I know want to be partnered.

Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.