David Nicholls Quotes

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

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

Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love with woman, and woman goes to die for man. The chances are that in five minutes John kicks Jane, and Jane kicks John. This is a materialism and no love at all. If John could really love Jane, he would be perfect that moment.

A library is also a place where love begins.

Love is dope, not chicken soup.

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Love is, without question life's greatest experience.

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say.

Love is the most common miracle.

One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.

But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.

Love is our true destiny.