Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Romance

Quotes about: Romance

• I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Disappointment, Greatness

• Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Sexy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.451, Penguin

• My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and here’s how I can tell: because I did not demand that he become my Great Emancipator or my Source of All Life, nor did I immediately vanish into that man’s chest cavity like a twisted, unrecognizable, parasitical homonculus. During our long period of courtship, I remained intact within my own personality, and I allowed myself to meet (him) for who he was.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Crush, Men, Long

• This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Peace, Healing, Night

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

• I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Passion, Kissing, Night

  "'Eat, Pray, Love' author tackles marriage". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2010.

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