Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex

Quote by Julian Barnes

Topics: Sex Quotes

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or...

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or...

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can...

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can...

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

Sex is nature's way of saying 'Hi!'

Sex is nature's way of saying 'Hi!'

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things...

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things...

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of...

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of...

I love you not because I need you, I need you because I love you.

I love you not because I need you, I need you because I love you.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that...

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that...

Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another...

Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another...

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its...

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its...

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand: The more you are in...

Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand: The more you are in...

Your Absence is everywhere... I cannot escape your memory...

Your Absence is everywhere... I cannot escape your memory...

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch...

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch...

Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To...

Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To...

The trouble with bein early is that nobody's there 2 appreciate it but then again...

The trouble with bein early is that nobody's there 2 appreciate it but then again...