Subjective Love Quotes

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.

I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that I feel about Britain the same way I feel about my wife. I'm crazy about my wife - we just kind of suit each other. I wouldn't say that she's the most fantastic human being that's ever lived, but she is for me.

No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

Love meant different things to different people.

Love is such an objective thing. I mean, I can say I love my family, or I love my Diet Coke. So I guess, in different ways, yeah, I do believe in love.

Love is individual to each person and I don’t think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn’t going to be the same for everybody.

A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

Yes, but everyone is beautiful to someone.

I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

It's useless to criticize things that people love and something that speaks to them.

I enjoy my own songs, but I can never love them in the way that I can love someone else's song.

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.