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Romantic Relationships Quotes

"Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self."

― Mother Teresa

"Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep or games, but only by seeing their beloved."

― Rumi

"It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love."

― Sigmund Freud

"After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn’t bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it’s a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it’s sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we’re doing the right thing."

― Paulo Coelho

"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

― Marilyn Monroe

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with "