Alain Badiou Quotes

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.

Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.