D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

When you're married, the person you would most like to love you is your spouse. And if you feel loved by your spouse, the world looks bright. But if the love tank is empty, and you don't feel loved by your spouse, the world begins to look dark.

Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life.

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

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.

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but if one kneels before husband or wife, it is quite permissible!

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

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.

Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.

It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

In India, love often follows marriage. I know many people who are still very deeply in love with their wives, who they barely knew before they were married. In America there's this idea that "how could someone get married without being deeply in love with each other?" but in a lot of these cases feelings of love and affection actually grow after they've been legally and formally brought together.

Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.

There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

If I use the word romance, whether it's my wife or not, it does not mean sex. We can use the word sex when sex is there.

I love my husband more than I love my children.