Edna O'Brien Quotes

Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

To be romantic is quite simply to allow yourself to fall in love with life - all of life - and experience it fully, openly, passionately, and purposefully

Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

I really relate to the feeling of falling in love 10 times a day and wishing I could never stop falling in love.

Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.

Falling in love is an absolutely beautiful thing to go through, and why people shouldn't talk about it is beyond me.

You never know when you actually fall in love.

People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away

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

Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.

It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that we loved. I think that we must have loved each other all our lives, and that each succeeding spring was a word in the revelation of that love, not to be understood until, in the fullness of time, the whole sentence was written out in that most beautiful of all beautiful springs.

I can resist you or flee from you or try my hardest not to respond to you, but it makes no difference. You fall in love with me, and I with you". Daniel to Luce Page 352