140 Love Affair Quotes

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The only love affair I have ever had was with music. - Maurice Ravel

The only love affair I have ever had was with music. — Maurice Ravel

Love affairs are the real only education in life. — Marlene Dietrich

At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass! — Joan Rivers

The best love affairs are those we never had. — Norman Lindsay

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. - Honore de Balzac

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. — Honore de Balzac

I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC — Aaron Paul

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance. — Ian McEwan

We love because it's the only true adventure. - Nikki Giovanni

We love because it's the only true adventure. — Nikki Giovanni

Love is a promise; love is a souvenir. — John Lennon

Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart. — Joseph R. Bartlett

People fall in love in mysterious ways. Maybe it's all part of a plan. — Ed Sheeran

I'm always a sucker for a love story. — Sofia Coppola

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. - Henry Fielding

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. — Henry Fielding

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. - Sappho

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. — Sappho

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. — George Bernard Shaw

Short Love Affair Quotes

  • True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
  • Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour! — Aphra Behn
  • A pair of star-crossed lovers. — William Shakespeare
  • Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. — Saint Augustine
  • In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. — Elizabeth Ashley
  • Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. — Rumi
  • Real love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
  • The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. — African Proverbs
  • Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first- and the last- time — Lauren Kate
  • A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. — Lawrence Durrell

Top 10 Love Affair Quotes

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children. — Joycelyn Elders

A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs. — Calvin Miller

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology. — H. L. Mencken

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. — Joseph Campbell

Photography is a love affair with life. — Burk Uzzle

It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love. — Melina Marchetta

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks. — Julio Cortazar

Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith. — John Piper

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball. — Roy Keane

Love Affair Image Quotes

Love affair quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

Love Relationship Quotes

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? — Bob Marley

Love affair quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. - Ruth Graham

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama

Love affair quote Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Unknown Author

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. — Oscar Wilde

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Secret Affair Quotes

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love affair quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service? — Frederick Forsyth

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. — Mary Balogh

Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors. — Honore de Balzac

Love affair quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you. — David Levithan

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge. — Jeffrey Donovan

Most affairs do die a natural death. Today, you look at your partner's phone to find out the weather, and you find out about a lover. It has never been as easy to cheat as it is today, and it has never been harder to keep a secret. — Esther Perel

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion. — Horace

Passionate Love Quotes

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. — Ellen G. White

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. — J. G. Holland

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion. — Hildegard of Bingen

Love affair quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life. — Omar Khayyam

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible. — William Booth

Love affair quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. — Audrey Hepburn

Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing. — Saint Peter

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever. — Sam Walton

The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion. — Giambattista Bodoni

Love Attachment Quotes

Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love — Chiara Lubich

My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children. — Gad Saad

Wherever you live, you come to love it. — Japanese Proverbs

Love affair quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

‎"I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine. — Anthony De Mello

Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned. — Erich Maria Remarque

Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains. — S. N. Goenka

Love affair quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share. — Suze Orman

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

True love does not have attachments. You give freely, without caring what comes back in return. — Corey Wayne

The trick is not to get hooked on the highs and lows and mistake an activated attachment system for passion or love. Don’t let emotional unavailability turn you on. — Amir Levine

Love Story Quotes

Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him. — Yasmin Mogahed

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host. - Fulton J. Sheen

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host. — Fulton J. Sheen

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. — Elif Safak

Love affair quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth. — Malcolm Muggeridge

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great. — Jason Mewes

Love affair quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

I think Hollywood, I think America in general, they love redemption stories. — Logan Paul

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. — Jimi Hendrix

I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species. — Marlon Brando

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point. — Chris Martin

Love Obsession Quotes

You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different. — ASAP Rocky

I like the idea of craziness with discipline. — Sayings

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. — Taylor Swift

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. — J. K. Rowling

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'. — Zachary Quinto

Until Jesus Christ is the obsession of your heart, you'll always be looking to mere men to meet your needs that only Him can fill. Only when you make Jesus Christ your first love,will you be ready for a love story that reflects His glory. — Leslie Ludy

My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones. — Paul Theroux

I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy. — Cheryl Cole

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. — Philip Roth

I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior. — Hayley Williams

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More Love Affair Quotes

My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature. — Euell Gibbons

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. — Pico Iyer

For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me! — David Lee Roth

I've had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn't work out. I don't want to dwell on that and I don't want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I've been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I've met - that ought to make a story. — Ella Fitzgerald

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. — Charles Baudelaire

When it comes to your personal life, such as love and romance, girls should take a tip from the men and keep their affairs to themselves. Any man worth his salt regards his private life as his own. To kiss a girl and run and tell would mark him as a cad. Why doesn't that apply to girls also? — Carole Lombard

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. — Benjamin Franklin

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. — Annie Dillard

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship. — Joseph Campbell

Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril. — Gary Busey

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. — E. M. Forster

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands. — Brennan Manning

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. — Joseph Campbell

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul. — Thomas Moore

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it. — Nick Cave

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter. — George Will

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing. — Tennessee Williams

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. — Lorrie Moore

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. — David Mitchell

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School. — Frank Sinatra

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. — Thomas Moore

From the moment I stepped foot in Music City I have had a love affair with the people and burgeoning culinary scene. This city's long, highly-respected cultural history, coupled with the recent growth and development is inspiring. I could not be happier with my decision and I'm truly excited to call Nashville my home. — Maneet Chauhan

If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair. — Elvis Presley

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time. — Mason Cooley

If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us. — Francoise Sagan

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. — George Bernard Shaw

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up. — George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love. — Nikki Sixx

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. — William Shakespeare

...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith. — Gregory Palamas

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