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How would you describe what love feels like to you?

213 answers answered between 2008 and 2026 one of 25 in The Q&A

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Irvine Welsh Scottish novelist
When you can barely stand to look at someone without turning away to catch your breath.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2016 source ↗
Alison Moyet English singer
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗
Suzanne Vega American singer-songwriter
It feels like a yearning but also a kind of overwhelming glowing out.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2017 source ↗
David Guetta French DJ
There are types: there is the world-being-comfortable type of love and there’s the lust-and-passion type of love – I think I like that one better.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2017 source ↗
Billy Porter American actor and singer
I’m trying to figure out how to receive unconditional love. That’s hard to do when you’ve never really had it, so I’m trying to navigate that.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 January 2021 source ↗

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