Quotes about "Love & Romance"

Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition. ”

I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day? ”

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question of what art is for. This is a question that has, quite unfairly, come to feel impatient, illegitimate, and a little impudent. ”

Travel is a lot like love. ”

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. ”

Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent. ”

Used to do a lot of falling in love with people, almost in the street, and imagining that there would be no obstacle to a happy love story other than finding the 'right person'. ”

I don't want to say that our expectations of love are too high; it's just that if we're to meet them, we have to become a little more self-aware. ”

If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely. ”

If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days. ”