Fulke Greville Quotes

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?

I'm not opposed to falling in love.

It's not a bad Thing to fall in Love.

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

Love' is a big step. It's a big word. You have to work your way to it.

Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.

Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.

I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now.

Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.