Quotes on Love Affair

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.

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

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.

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.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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.

love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)