Bob Goff Quotes

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

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.

Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril.

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

When you work on a passion project, there's always the chance that you'll get your heart broken.

Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.

Love is the force that leaves you colorless

I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation.

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.

If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long.

Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer.

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

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

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.