Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

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

Love is dope, not chicken soup.

I think women love a passionate love story.

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

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

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

The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.

Art is much, but love is more.

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

There was a difference between loving someone and being in love

Jack Force was more than she had ever dared wish for, and he was better than a dream or a fantasy because he was real. He was far from perfect, moody and distant at times, and burdened with sharp temper and an impulsiveness that was part of his dark nature. But she felt more love for him than she thought possible. He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her. (Schuyler Van Alen)

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer and it may never come again.

I do love you and what else matters but that

I love thee, and it is my love that speaks

Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live.

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There's only sex at first sight.

I think that a woman should be in love. I think that love makes the sex greater. Or even if you just really, really like that person.