Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I’m afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Like him, maybe, but not love him.

True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.

Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.

Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

Love is an energy, love is a mystery, love is meant to be true. Love is a part of me, love is the heart of me, love is the best thing we do.

There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit, and supplies passion to our lives.

I always just loved women, but more important than loving women, more important than sexual stuff, is I always believed in romance.

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

When you love a woman don't be bothered about what others have said about love, because that is going to be an interference. You love a woman, the love is there, forget all that you have learned about love. Forget all Kinseys, forget all Masters and Johnsons, forget all Freuds and Jungs. Please don't become a language professor. Just love the woman and let love be there, and let love lead you and guide you into its innermost secrets, into its mysteries. Then you will be able to know what love is.

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

Wherever your heart rests There I will live and be blessed I've tried to line up the things I Needed to say but now my feelings just Tumble from me. I am half foolish, Half drunk with wanting you With wanting to take your hand And leap into the darkness of whatever Life will bring. Love makes me Brave and without love I'm made Nothing.

I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.

Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving.

Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.

The time between meeting, and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love.