Eric Jerome Dickey Love Quotes & Sayings

Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Sex and love are not identical twins. Not fraternal. Not born at the same moment but still of the same womb. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Lust is a master showman who disguises himself as love, and love is a mythical creature who keeps habitat with the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and other lies we have been fed. — Eric Jerome Dickey

It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Falling in love is like falling off a building - it doesn't hurt till the end. — Eric Jerome Dickey

The mouth that you love to feel sucking you. The mouth that makes your toes curl, the mouth that makes you ache and moan. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Love is for the soul and sex is for the body. Both cry out for satisfaction — Eric Jerome Dickey

Falling in love is easy. Being in love sucks. — Eric Jerome Dickey

He was old enough to know you can't make people love you. But I suppose when you're wounded, logic ain't logical. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out. — Eric Jerome Dickey

You can't question what has no answer. If I knew then it would not be true love. It would have because attached. I love you because this reason, or that reason. Real love has no because attached. — Eric Jerome Dickey

The path to love wasn't a smooth road. Love would show up while you were busy with another love, leaving you to decide. — Eric Jerome Dickey

safety and love are both illusions! — Eric Jerome Dickey

But that's not the way love goes. You show the good, disguise the bad. — Eric Jerome Dickey

She's a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star. — Eric Jerome Dickey

For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her
shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter's position, ready to run. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out. — Eric Jerome Dickey

love is an investment! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Love ain't never been a rational beast. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Like she said, love wasn't a switch that could be turned off. It was more like a battery, had to run until there was no more energy left. — Eric Jerome Dickey