Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

Football is a sad game.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Fear is exciting for me.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Grief is the price we pay for love.