Jesse Ball Quotes

I can tell you with authority that when I'm exhausted, when I'm running on empty, I'm the worst version of myself.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

Everything has to do with loving and not loving.

I feel like I'm 1,000. I don't feel I'm young enough a lot of the time.

If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

It isn't possible to love and to part.

But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

I'm not opposed to falling in love.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

One cannot fall in love, really; one has to be in love.

For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter’s position, ready to run.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.