Daily Inspiration Quote by Drew Barrymore

Love, in Drew Barrymore's framing, isn’t a soaring feeling; it’s a compulsion with a calendar and consequences. Calling it a “habit” strips romance of its sacred glow and drops it into the realm of behavior: something practiced, reinforced, and painfully automatic. Habits are what you reach for when you’re tired, lonely, bored, or trying to feel like yourself again. That word choice makes the line sting, because it hints that attachment can outlive happiness, logic, even dignity. You don’t just fall out of love. You detox.

The second clause twists the knife: love is “difficult to satisfy.” Not “find” or “keep,” but satisfy, as if love is an appetite that keeps changing its order. The subtext is quietly unsentimental: even when love is present, it rarely feels complete. It asks for proof, reassurance, attention, growth. It can be nourished, but never fully finished. That’s why it can be both refuge and treadmill.

Coming from Barrymore, the quote reads less like a greeting-card maxim and more like a lived report from someone who grew up in public, watched relationships become headlines, and had to reinvent stability under a spotlight. Her persona has long balanced sweetness with frankness; this line does the same. It gives romance its due, then refuses to pretend it’s easy. The intent feels like permission: to admit that longing can be stubborn, and that wanting love doesn’t automatically make it fulfilling.