Honore de Balzac Quotes

I do love you and what else matters but that

But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.

Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

I love you because you’re the only person I want to make love to without any conditions and—and I love that you need me.

What you call love does not sound very beautiful.

I’ve never loved anyone the way I love you,” he whispered. “Lucky them.

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

Big romantic gestures are only as strong as the relationships they happen in.

There's something about two people coming together in the rain that is the ultimate expression of love in the minds of most audiences, I guess.

A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.