Love Quotes

“Making love is a risky business. The more people surrender to, and invest themselves in the one they love, the more they run the risk of being emotionally burnt if the relationship ends. Like any economic investment, there is a realization that the more care and love you give to a loved one, the greater the loss if they leave or die. And yet, despite all the messages to live free, to taste and try, and despite the grief and heartache that comes when love fails or dies, people still enter into marriage and long-term relationships and commitments.”
― Tom Inglis, Love

“Human beings have always danced delicately between love and power, wanting, on the one hand, to bond and belong and being willing and able to sacrifice themselves for others but, on the other hand, wanting to hold on to what they have, to exert power, control and dominate.”
― Tom Inglis, Love

“Love may not have always made the world go round, but sympathy, concern and compassion for others have always been central to human existence. On the other hand, hatred, brutality, inequality, injustice and exploitation have also always been central to human existence.”
― Tom Inglis, Love

“Love and sex also became the cultural currency of consumer capitalism. They were central to stimulating desire, to selling products. They became the new religion with their own teachings, rules, practices and rituals, their own gods and goddesses.”
― Tom Inglis, Love

“Love, sex and romance became the new ‘opium of the people’.”
― Tom Inglis, Love

“There are many ways of losing love. People may desperately seek love, but even when it is found, it is easily lost. People fall out of love as much as they fall into it.”
― Tom Inglis, Love

“While we associate love with romance and passion, making love in everyday life revolves more around an attempt to create and sustain meaning and happiness. The search for perfect love is probably as fruitless as the search for perfect happiness. Kaufmann argues that passion will always erupt in people’s lives, but that if a couple can develop a relationship based on agapic love, then it is possible for them to build a house ‘of little pleasures brick by brick’.”
― Tom Inglis, Love

“It can be seen not just as part of the human condition, but central to what it is to be human. We recognize in others what we see in ourselves. We understand what it is to be human by putting ourselves in their shoes. We develop a sense of sympathy, compassion and tenderness towards people we meet in everyday life, even strangers. There is a sense of sameness. It is not a coincidence that we describe people who embody the same habitus, who are sympathetic and caring, who are kind and helpful, as being lovely.”
― Tom Inglis, Love

“While popular culture tends to conflate love with romance, the love between a parent and a child is perhaps the main love story of human history...”
― Tom Inglis, Love

“Belief in love and the possibility of falling in love and making love is what sustains individuals”
― Tom Inglis, Love

“The quest for salvation and heaven in the next life, began to be substituted by the quest to find love and experience paradise in this life.”
― Tom Inglis, Love

“Once they left school, Mark and Lucy stopped being religious. Instead of embodying the discourse and practices of the Catholic Church, they embodied the discourse and practice of love, sex and romance. Instead of going to church, they went to pubs and discos. Instead of embracing piety, humility and chastity, they embraced each other. Instead of kneeling down and praying, they shook their bodies to the rhythms of popular music. Instead of putting up pictures of holy men and women, they put up pictures of music and film stars. Instead of reading about the lives of saints, they read about the lives of celebrities. Instead of listening to hymns, they listened to songs about love and romance. Mark and Lucy were part of a new breed of people that began to emerge, particularly during the twentieth century, who believed more in themselves than God. They believed in the pursuit of happiness and pleasure more than in self-sacrifice. They saw passion and sex not as dangerous, but as central to living a fulsome life.”
― Tom Inglis, Love