13 Quotes About What It Takes To Find And Maintain Love

13 quotes

Love is hard and requires a lot of work. These quotes prove it. 

“Most people want to get married. Is there anything else that people do in such huge numbers, with such a terrible success rate?”

— Iain Reid, amazon.com

Tagged: Marriage, Failed Relationships

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

— Tom Robbins, goodreads.com

Tagged: Philosophy, Love

“I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”

— Carl Jung, amazon.com

Tagged: Alone, Love, Solitude

“What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?”

— Gillian Flynn, Amy Dunne, amazon.com

Tagged: Dating, Relationships, The Other

“Movies love to imply that the man and woman held each other all night long, but you can’t do it. You have to roll away.”

— David Shields, amazon.com

Tagged: real love, Love

“I am furious with you, but I love you very dearly.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

Tagged: Love

“Is there some truth that is revealed when lovers argue? No. Arguing is to a relationship what masturbation is to sex.”

— Simon Critchley, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationships

“When you’ve lived alone for a number of years, I’m afraid that you begin to realize how hard it would be to accommodate to living with someone else, adjusting to or even indulging his desires and his life.”

— Katharine Graham, amazon.com

Tagged: Living Alone

“He indulged it at first, trying to be a good man, trying to live up to an ideal image that he, too, still had of himself, but there was finally no way around it: endless discussion with a humorless twenty-three-year-old bored him. During the day, when they were apart, he kept picturing her solemn ga…”

— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com

Tagged: This Is Love, Ideals, Fantasy

“For when you cling, what you offer the other is not love but a chain by which both you and your beloved are bound. Love can only exist in freedom. The true lover seeks the good of his beloved which requires especially the liberation of the beloved from the lover.”

— Anthony De Mello, amazon.com

Tagged: Freedom, Expand Love, Liberation

“The only proof of love may be the ease with which it can be betrayed.”

— Simon Critchley, amazon.com

Tagged: Love

“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, How to be good at love

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Philosophy, The Person You'll Become