Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany

[…] but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

Love is almost never simple.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about.

Love is very complicated and it's never black and white, as I'm sure we all know in our lives.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I just can't understand, I have to "poem" my way through it. For that reason I write a lot about family, because my family confuses me and I'm always trying to figure them out. I write a lot about love, because love is continually confusing in all of its many glorious aspects.

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

You are confusing plumbing and love again.

Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

Sex and Love are two words that anyone can relate to, no matter the nationality or age.

Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.

I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

Love is only one of many passions.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I don't know what love means.