Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
I was too young to know how to love her.
Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .
I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.
Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.
Every individual we meet is different than we are. Members of the same family differ one from the other. Friend differs from friend, husband from wife, sister from brother, nation from nation. All these differences make 'feeling' love difficult and isolated to specific individuals according to our tastes and their personalities.
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other, smaller happenings. History can sometimes be in the background, the thing which instead of rupturing your life merely irritates you by pressing itself now and then into the foreground.
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.
I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.
It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder that single life might be preferable.
True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.
One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.
Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together.
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.
