Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

I'm not at ease with the word "love."

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Love alone could waken love.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

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

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

I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Just because somebody wants to be alone sometimes, it doesn't mean they don't love you.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.

Guess what, Avery?" "What?" I wondered if he could see how fast my heart was beating beneath my shirt. "Remember how you just said you were having a good time?" Cam lowered his head so that our mouths were scant inches apart. "It's about to get better." "Is it?" He shifted his head and his nose grazed mine. "Oh, yeah." "Are you not going to kiss me again?" His lips tipped up. "That's exactly what I'm going to do.