Irving Stone Quotes

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

There is nothing like love. You should try it.” Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

I never realized I could love people as much as I do now.

I am oftentimes the ear for some people that I know and love. Which I like being. I don't know if I'd like being a marriage counselor, though, because that's too deep for me.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

I'm so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

Love is the substance of human survival.